Using Genealogy to Uncover Irish Famine Immigrant Stories
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Hollin Hall Senior Center 1500 Shenandoah Road 1500 Shenandoah Road, Alexandria, Virginia 22308
Mount Vernon Genealogical Society
Tyler Anbinder is professor of History at George Washington University and the author of City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. He also served as a consultant to Martin Scorsese’s The Gangs of New York.
Historian Tyler Anbinder will discuss using genealogical research to tell the story of Irish immigration to New York City during the Great Famine. In collaboration with a genealogist, he has tracked down thousands of famine immigrants and is now compiling their stories into a Famine Generation group biography.
Register no later than September 15 to this FREE ZOOM event at https://mvgenealogy.org/cpage.php?pt=111 OR by emailing contact-us@mvgenealogy.org.
Visit http://www.mvgenealogy.org and link to the Events Page for more information on this and other upcoming events.
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