GRIVA: Trish Little Taylor - Celtic Connections - What's New in Researching Irish Ancestors

GRIVA was pleased to host Trish Little Taylor as she presented her talk, Celtic Connections - What's New in Researching Irish, Scottish, and British Ancestors on 23 April 2024. (We do apologize for her bad internet connection at the very beginning, but her connection improved a few minutes in.)

This session will feature an overview of the basics of Irish research and then focus on new databases and resources. There are so many new resources and keeping up with them is important.

Trish was born and raised in New Jersey. She came to Virginia to attend Mary Washington College. Her desire was to be a librarian so after graduation she went to Western Michigan University for a Masters in Librarianship. Then moved back to Virginia, spent six years as a school librarian, and later worked for the Library of Virginia. Those were the pre-computer days when typing was the desired input method and research was on either using microfilm or traveling to the source. In 1978 she began at the LVA where she began a lifelong obsession with research.

She knew that her grandmother May Walters Peters and her Dad Joseph Warren Walters were born in Virginia. They are her only Virginians. The rest of the family comes from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Cornwall, England and Ireland. She researched Ireland and was able to obtain Irish citizenship because William Little, her grandfather, was born there.

She moved to the area after she retired from Portsmouth Public Library. She is the President of the Fredericksburg Regional Genealogical Society (FRGS) and she moderates the Irish SIG, and she organized the 2018 Fall Conference. She is a member of the National Genealogical Society and is a GRIVA board member.

Trish has lectured on newspapers, Irish records and basic genealogical research. She had organized workshops and presented at library conferences.

The handout discussed at the end will be available on the GRIVA website soon. We'll add the link here when it becomes available.

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