Irish Special Interest Group 13 May 2024 3:00 – 4:30 via ZOOM Meeting Notes by Kelly Martin fox.ak.kelly@gmail.com 

 A wonderful presentation was given by our society member Charlotte Sullivan titled “Irish Miners In the US.”  

• The group then went on to have a lengthy discussion on her presentation.  
• We had a demonstration on the EWGS website where to find the Special Interest Group pages on the main page on the menu across the top.  I also demonstrated the buttons to click on in the upper right corner of the banner on the top of the page to find the public Facebook page, private Facebook page and our society blog.
• I shared with the group the following: The Irish Genealogical and Historical Society is hosting another free Irish Genealogy beginners class series taught by Eva Doherty Gremmert and Nigel Giddey, via Zoom.
• Join us starting Saturday May 3, 2025, for 4 weeks at 5:00 pm British Summer Time (BST). Link: Yesterday I went to the link above to register for this class and unfortunately this is the response I got: “Kelly, the class series Is halfway over. I would recommend signing up for the series when we o er it again in September.” I will follow this and put out a reminder when it will be aired in September.
•  I found a couple of You Tube videos I wanted to share that correspond to this month’s topic: (see below) Forgotten: The Irish in the American West Link: A “Normal” Day for The Irish on The American Frontier Link: 
• I found this photo in a Facebook post on our society public page and I due to our meeting topic this month I thought that I would share it here:
• The next Irish Special Interest meeting will be held via zoom on Monday, June 9th from 3:00 to 4:30 via This colorized postcard shows a group of miners and laborers in the workings of the Hudson Coal Company near Scranton, Pennsylvania.  The image, found in the collections of the Boston Public Library, comes with this caption: "A group of miners and laborers resting after completion of shaft.” The machine shown is a coal cutting machine. The box shown in front of the machine is a blasting battery machine.  

An electric drill is held by the man at the right and a drill, and a tamping bar is lying across the rails. Courtesy: The Hudson Coal Company." ZOOM.

  The participants today were Charlotte Sullivan, Marge Mero, Paula Davis, Ron Marvin, Barbra Gumm, Dr. Nancy Todd, Brusan Wells, Lola McCreary 

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