# Event Details

- **Event Name**: November 15 - Old Irish Surnames - with Irene Morgan
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 10:45 am – Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: November 15 - Old Irish Surnames - with Irene Morgan

This presentation will be held in-person at the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 West Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520, and virtually for members via Zoom. 

*Always check for last-minute meeting day changes due to weather or technical issues. We will send you emails and post updated information on our website, IFHF.org, and our Facebook page.

The Irish Family History Forum offers nine world-class Irish Genealogy lectures, both in person and on ZOOM. Handouts and most of our presentations are recorded and available to our MEMBERS for viewing on our website for a limited time after the original presentation.


If you would like to join the Irish Family History Forum, go to: https://ifhf.org/index.php/plans/join-ifhf/  

Individual: $30 a year.
Family: two people (one address) - $40 a year
Student (with a student ID) - $15 a year


*Upcoming Presentations


November 15 
Old Irish Surnames - with Irene Morgan

Your brick wall could be a modern-day blind spot in surname pronunciation or spelling. Old Irish surnames are living, breathing entities that have shape-shifted and evolved across generations. Discover how to navigate mysterious spelling variants and aliases to trace elusive family names back to Ireland. 

Irene Morgan, a native Irish speaker, is the resident genealogy writer for Ireland Reaching Out and the founder of Irish Quest. In January, she spoke to the Forum about Irish forenames and nicknames.


December 14 - Christmas Luncheon
At the Irish Coffee Pub, East Islip, NY
Sign up information to follow.

 Irish vocalist/guitarist Victor Cunneen will entertain the gathering with Irish and seasonal music.  Cunneen, a native of Midleton, Co. Cork, was greatly influenced by the folk ballad boom of the early 1960s, particularly by the playing of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He has performed throughout Ireland and many European countries, as well as in Egypt, the U.S., and Canada.



January 17
Researching with Census Records - with Kerri Tannenbaum

Unlock your family's past by digging into census records.  We'll explore the fundamentals of using census records, including federal, state, and other censuses.  You'll learn how census records have evolved over time, how to locate and interpret the records, and how to use the information to build your family tree and trace ancestors across multiple generations. 
Forum member and professional genealogist Kerri Tannenbaum is a graduate of Boston University’s Certificate Program in Genealogical Research and the ProGen Peer Study Groups.  A recipient of numerous awards from the National Genealogical Society, she serves as a contributing editor for the Forum Newsletter.  She also runs her own genealogy company, Family Dot Connector.


February 21
The 1926 Irish Census - with Noel Carolan (via Zoom from Ireland)

On April 18, the 1926 Irish census —the first enumeration conducted by the Irish Free State —will be released by the National Archives of Ireland. To prepare us for this event, Dr. Noel Carolan will highlight the unique insights that the 1926 census will provide into Irish families and their neighbors, employers, and living conditions. The talk will outline the stark political and economic contexts of the census, the information it contains, how it was collected, and what we will discover, free of charge, when the census becomes available. Dr. Carolan will provide a set of digital handouts with selected online links and resources to help you kickstart your family history research in the eight weeks before the census release.

Dr. Carolan is a historian with a focus on national, local, and family history. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with the political history of Ireland’s food supply from 1895 to 1923 and resulted in his delivery of conference papers in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the U.K., and the Czech Republic. For decades, he has been an active member of Raheny Heritage Society in Dublin, which divides its interests between local history and family history.


March 21
The Orphan Train - with Frank McKenna
Forum Executive VP Frank McKenna will discuss the orphan trains (aka baby trains), a welfare program that transported infants and children from crowded Eastern cities of the U.S. to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest and upstate New York. The orphan trains, which operated between 1854 and 1929, relocated approximately 200,000 children. The cofounders of the orphan train movement claimed that these children were orphaned, abandoned, abused, or homeless, but this was not always true. They were mostly the children of new immigrants, many of them Irish, and children of poor and destitute families living in these cities. Although there were criticisms of the program—including ineffective screening of caretakers, insufficient follow-ups on placements, and the view that many of the children were used strictly as farm labor—some of these riders grew up in loving homes.  

Frank McKenna, a former president of the Forum, is also one of our charter members. The director of the Seaford Public Library in Seaford, NY, he has worked in the public library field for over 30 years. His late great-aunt Margaret (McKenna) Loftus-Taylor was a rider on a baby train.


Members, thank you for your support, 30+ years and counting!

Members with email addresses on file will receive a MailChimp Zoom Invitation email about one week before the presentation. 

Members, if you can’t find your MailChimp Zoom Invitation email, don't worry. You can access an invitation by visiting the ifhf.org website, clicking "Member Resources," and then selecting "Monthly Meeting Link." When you do, you will see an "Invitation Link" to register for the Zoom Webinar.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Freeport
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Freeport Memorial Library
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- **full address**: Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W Merrick Rd,Freeport,NY,United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 10:45 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W Merrick Rd,Freeport,NY,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Irish Family History Forum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** business, workshops, music, meetups, entertainment, christmas, art, literary-art, virtual, webinar, conferences
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