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General Meetings of the Irish Family History Forum are held at 11:00 a.m., on the third Saturday of each month, except July and August. Meetings are held at the Bethpage Public Library. Directions.
Check our Calendar for information about upcoming meetings and events.
Help Sessions are offered each month at 10:00 a.m., prior to the General Meeting. These popular sessions are informal discussion groups where members come together to discuss their research problems and to seek guidance from more experienced members. Members use this time to share their own success stories, as well as to help others find solutions to their problems. Sessions are aimed at the beginning researcher. We discuss how to get started researching your family history and the US sources which may help you to discover your ancestor's county of origin in Ireland. To meet the diverse needs of our membership we occasionally discuss topics for members who have made significant advancement with their US research and are ready to move on to their Irish research. Over the past year our research sessions have covered a variety of topics such as performing a surname distribution survey and records that may contain clues to your ancestor's place of origin in Ireland. Help sessions are open to non-members, on a one time only basis, as a way of investigating the value of the Forum to their research activities.
Bethpage Public Library
47 Powell Avenue, Bethpage, NY, 11714
(516) 931-3907.
From The North Shore
Take the Long Island Expressway or the Northern State Parkway to the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway (Rte. 135). Drive south on the Expressway to the Bethpage-Powell Ave. ext (Exit #8). The exit is on Powell Ave.; turn right. Proceed about 2 blocks to library, which on the left hand side.
From The South Shore
Take the Southern State Parkway to the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway. Proceed north on the Expressway to the Bethpage-Powell Ave. exit (Exit#8). The exit is on Powell Ave.; turn right. Proceed about 2 blocks to the library, which will be on the left hand side.