At Home and Abroad

Melanie McComb holds a B.S. from the State University of New York at Oswego. She is an international lecturer who teaches on a variety of topics including colonial through twentieth-century American military research, genetic genealogy, Atlantic Canadian, African American, Jewish, and Irish genealogy. She is also an Honorary Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. She has had articles published in American Ancestors Magazine and Fifty Plus Advocate. She is a blogger, known as The Shamrock Genealogist. Using published and online primary sources, Melanie uncovers the story of the migration of the Irish to Canada before and during The Great Famine. Melanie delivered a webinar reviewing the different immigration schemes including the Peter Robinson settlers to Ontario, the Monaghan Settlers to Atlantic Canada, and assisted immigration to Quebec, drawing on records about their departure from Ireland and arrival into Canada, including quarantine stations at Partridge Island and Gross Ile.