January 2026 Meeting
Next Meeting Saturday, January 17th 2026, 1:30 PM
at The Gaelic League, 2068 Michigan Ave., Detroit, MI 48216
Please join us for the January 2026 monthly meeting of the 2025 - 2026 season featuring Megan Heyl as our featured speaker. Reminders for this meeting will be emailed out to members as the date approaches. Zoom invitations are sent out to members only due to capacity limitations. Non-Members will be charged $10.00 to access our Zoom presentations.
"Jumpstart Your Genealogy"
Whether you are new at researching your ancestry or picking up where you left off years ago, lets start the adventure.
We all need directions, a plan, or even a map. You will have fun and you will get frustrated, so lets start our searching and learning while finding your family. You may even laugh a lot!
Megan has been teaching the majority of her life. She taught in the public school systems in Ohio and Michigan where she now resides in Holland, Michigan. She taught mostly in the middle and high school sectors teaching academic support – where her students were either on probation, parole, or in special education.
After retiring from teaching in the public school system, she found herself interested in genealogy, and pursued her second career as a researcher, doing client work, offering educational services and speaking for various libraries, societies, and conferences for the past 20 years. She has spoken at various conferences such at RootsTech, The Genealogy Show in London, Genealogy Palooza, W.I.S.E. Colorado and more. She is the owner of Hunting Down History, runs the Genealogy Study Group now in its 14th year, is the Education Director for the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History, and has her Masters Degree in Education Administration. She belongs to many local, national and international genealogical societies and historical societies, writes articles for many quarterly publications, and is currently writing her first book
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Welcome
Welcome to the Irish Genealogical Society of Michigan. The Irish Genealogical Society of Michigan is a non-denominational organization focusing on genealogical research in all thirty-two counties of the Emerald Isle. Our meeting is open to everyone who can attend at the Gaelic League. Zoom invitations are sent out to members only due to capacity limitations.
