Our meetings focus on topics relevant to all those researching their family history, including the use of the internet to further your research. We have some more general meetings featuring local topics for those researching in Cheshire and those interested in their locality. The format of our meetings is typically a one hour talk followed by an opportunity to ask questions; and then socialising and the chance to seek advice from other members over refreshments.

 

Meetings are normally held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at the Salvation Army Church, opposite Churchill Way Car Park in the centre of Macclesfield, from 7.30pm-9.00pm. We usually replace the July meeting with a visit to a church, archive or other location of interest, and there is no meeting in December.

Visitors are always welcome.

Admission to Macclesfield Group meetings is £2 for members and £3 for visitors. 

 

A monthly update and reminder about meetings is emailed to subscribers to our email list. If you would like to be added to our list, please send a request to the Group Leader.

 

 

Congleton and Macclesfield Groups are joining together to hold a series of meeings online via Zoom. 

Zoom meetings 2021

Tuesday 18th May

Cheshire's old villages – a talk by Tony Bostock.

Tuesday 22nd June

Family Search - a talk by Ian Waller.

Tuesday 27 July

Which website and why? - a talk by Jackie Depelle

Compare and review main-stream websites potentially providing identical information, or do they? Develop analytical skills for transfer to other online source material.  

Tuesday 24 August

A grandmother's legacy: my family history - a talk by Jenny Mallin.

A unique insight into a family who were living in India, of British ancestry during the British Raj.  She effortlessly throws light on the life and times of Anglo-Indians during this period. Spanning the 19th and the 20th centuries, her story covers the lives of five generations of women of a family, beginning with Jenny’s great-great-great grandma Wilhelmina.

Tuesday 28 September

The Art of the Con in the Nineteenth Century “Preyers on the Public” Claire Moores

 

Please do not book for the meetings until the beginning of the month in which the meeting will take place. A newsletter will be send each month to remind members of meetings.

 

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