Tracing Your Roots Back To Ireland
The Clare Roots Society, idea of Ennis man Larry Brennan, was formed in the spring of 2006 as an amateur family history group in Clare. The Club meets once a month in Ennis, and today has over 100 members. Anyone with an interest in tracing their family tree is more than welcome to sign up.
A number of members are knowledgeable genealogists while others are beginners in the field. In addition to local members, they have got 'virtual' members who reside overseas but who follow activities by way of email, and dream that they're in Clare. The society operates together with Clare County Library so as to add to the wonderful fund of genealogy info presently offered.
People who live abroad and would like to be involved in the Society's plans (e.g. transcription projects) can become members by submitting their names, addresses as well as email addresses to the Secretary. Their names will be put on the email list so they are kept well-advised of Society activities and projects. Right up until or unless they come to be resident in Ireland they will be exempt from the yearly Society subscription. A yearly subscription charge is levied on members who're resident in Ireland and therefore able to be involved in the Society's pursuits directly.
County Clare, located on the west coast of Ireland in the province of Munster suffered tremendously from emigration throughout the last 200 years. Between the years 1850 and 1880 approximately 112,000 people emigrated out of Co. Clare. In contrast the existing populace stands at just under 90,000.
Emigration has established a Clare Diaspora which has resulted in millions of people world-wide who are able to trace their origins to County Clare. From the Usa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, South Africa and Argentina, many thousands of men and women seek a greater understanding of the lives of their ancestors, and an awareness of their own personal heritage. This delivers a lot of tourism to the county. Hotels and other accommodation properties source much of their reservations from concentrating on these Irish emigrants.
A number of members are knowledgeable genealogists while others are beginners in the field. In addition to local members, they have got 'virtual' members who reside overseas but who follow activities by way of email, and dream that they're in Clare. The society operates together with Clare County Library so as to add to the wonderful fund of genealogy info presently offered.
People who live abroad and would like to be involved in the Society's plans (e.g. transcription projects) can become members by submitting their names, addresses as well as email addresses to the Secretary. Their names will be put on the email list so they are kept well-advised of Society activities and projects. Right up until or unless they come to be resident in Ireland they will be exempt from the yearly Society subscription. A yearly subscription charge is levied on members who're resident in Ireland and therefore able to be involved in the Society's pursuits directly.
County Clare, located on the west coast of Ireland in the province of Munster suffered tremendously from emigration throughout the last 200 years. Between the years 1850 and 1880 approximately 112,000 people emigrated out of Co. Clare. In contrast the existing populace stands at just under 90,000.
Emigration has established a Clare Diaspora which has resulted in millions of people world-wide who are able to trace their origins to County Clare. From the Usa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, South Africa and Argentina, many thousands of men and women seek a greater understanding of the lives of their ancestors, and an awareness of their own personal heritage. This delivers a lot of tourism to the county. Hotels and other accommodation properties source much of their reservations from concentrating on these Irish emigrants.
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