News Release

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May 3, 2005

BOISE STATE TO CO-SPONSOR IRISH, SCOTS-IRISH GENEALOGICAL HERITAGE WORKSHOP MAY 29

The Boise State University legacy marketing research group in the College of Business and Economics will help sponsor an Irish and Scots-Irish genealogical heritage workshop from 2-5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 29, at the Idaho Historical Museum, 610 N. Julia Davis Drive.

Two of the world’s top genealogical researchers on the Irish and Scots-Irish heritage from the Ulster Historical Foundation in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will participate as part of an international lecture tour. Brian Trainor, research director, and Fintan Mullan, executive director, will discuss Irish and Scots-Irish family history research, finding and evaluating records in Ireland and using electronic sources such as the Internet and CD-Rom discs. The lecture will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Admission is $10 per person at the door. The experts also will be available for personal consulting sessions after the lecture at the Flicks Theatre conference room. The cost is $35 per 20-minute session. The Flicks also will
show an Irish film, “The Boys and Girls from County Clare,” that evening.

Lecture co-sponsors include the Idaho State Historical Society and the Idaho Genealogical Society. Additional sponsorship donations or vendor displays are welcome. For more information, call Boise State marketing professors Nina Ray at 426-3837 or Gary McCain at 426-1615.

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Contact: Gary McCain, (208) 426-1615, gmccain@boisestate.edu
Nina Ray, (208) 426-3897, nray@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Sherry Squires, University Relations, (208) 426-1563, ssquires@boisestate.edu
Online at: http://news.boisestate.edu

 

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