Open Forum - Name variations in your family or in locations. Come along and tell us about any on your family  tree.

Open forums are an opportunity for members and visitors to share their research with the whole group.

We have found these meetings to be very informative and interesting for everyone.

Admission: £2 for members of the FHSC & £2.50 for non-members including light refreshments.

'BRING SOMETHING ANCESTRAL'

Do you have an object, a trinket or just a document, relating to your family history research that you can give a short talk about.

This theme has been used before and has resulted in a very enjoyable evening of discussion.

Visitors are welcome to join in this event.

Meetings held at Hartford Methodist Church Hall, Beach Road, Hartford CW8 3AB

Admission fee £2.00 Refreshments provided.

Chris is the Senior Maps Curator at the National Library of Scotland and will join us to explain how to use the map collections for family history. He will demonstrate the key kinds of map that are useful for our research. For example, how maps can reveal detailed information about a local area over time, including buildings, gardens, industries, railways, roads, woodland and agricultural land. Chris will use Cheshire maps as examples during his presentation.

This event is for members only and registration opens on 1 May when the ‘Register [Individual]’ button will show on the left for you to click and then process your registration you will receive an email confirmation. Registration will close on  13 May.

The zoom links/meeting protocol will be forwarded the day before the talk.  If you run into any difficulties with this, then please contact us on the dedicated seminar email address –  or see the 'Seminar Talks and how to Register' section under 'Online Talks and Meetings' in the FAQ section of the website.

The Seminar series is co-ordinated by Margaret Spate, Jean Laidlaw and Margaret Roberts and ALL correspondence, queries etc should be sent to the dedicated email address -   

At Nantwich Library - On the first floor (Lift available) in the Local Studies and Family History Room

Meet at the library on Monday afternoon for family history research.

Everyone is welcome to start their family tree, help with any enquiries, try and solve a brick wall

This talk will cover how in 1958 an eclectic group created a Society, that made a significant impact in the area.

Admission: £2 for members of the FHSC and £3 for non-members, including light refreshments.
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Wirral Pals - the story of the 13th (Wirral) Battalion Cheshire Regiment in the Great War - a talk by Peter Threlfall

Edward's grandfather lived in mid-Cheshire and for years kept a diary.  Edward has transcribed these diaries and presents them in a series of talks.  Before the pandemic we had booked Edward to give this talk but unfortunatley we had to cancel this, so we are really pleased that he is able to now give this, the second talk in the series. 

1914-1918 Home Front during the First World War

Edward's grandfather lived in Elworth and worked for Fodens, this is the story of his life and his thoughts on world and local events during the time, a fascinating insight 

This event is open to all, £2 entrance charge for members and £3 for visitors, refreshments served 

Very little survives of Ashton-under-Lyne Poor Law Union, so I spent a week at the National Archives looking into the Poor Law Correspondence papers, putting together whatever I could find to help fill in local gaps.  I will cover the history of the Poor Law locally and then some discoveries of when the New Poor Law of 1834 and how it took fully 17 years to implement locally.

The May FHSC Cheshire Research Buddies topic of the month is Tarporley, Kelsall, and Delamere - Do you have ancestors in the town, or are you researching a local family and want some help, perhaps on the other hand you live in the locality and could offer help with photographing gravestones or buildings. This is the chance for members to help each other, I'm sure there are many members out there with knowledge of the area that they could share. If you have a research question then please feel free to email me on  and I will circulate it among attendees beforehand.

You will need to register to attend, to do so please click on the 'Register [Individual]' button below on the left and process your registration, you will receive an email confirmation and the zoom links/meeting protocol will be forwarded the morning of the helpdesk meeting. If you run into any difficulties with this then please contact Margaret Roberts on .

NOTE that registration closes at 10am on the morning of the meeting.

Tales from St Paul's Churchyard 

By Dave Williams

May 28th 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

All Welcome

Admission Charge £2 for members £3 for visitors

including refreshments

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