The Family History Society of Cheshire

NORTHWICH AGM MEETING

Followed by:

ARE YOU CONSIDERING SUBSCRIBING TO DNA?

Member Alan Turley will head a discussion to enable those considering whether DNA is right for them. He will share his experiences, good or bad, and will welcome contributions and questions from all present. This will be very useful for those considering embarking on the project.

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

Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start. Visitors very welcome. Refreshments available. Admission £2.

In all likelihood Nantwich wouldn’t have existed as a prosperous market town if it wasn’t for the River Weaver. This talk explores the river’s geography, the roles it played in historic events, and how it supported local industries.

Factors affecting the quality of the river’s water over time are also discussed along with related ‘citizen science’ events involving local school children and families organised by the Museum in partnership with Keele University.

This meeting will form part of the 'Heritage Week' Events for Crewe, there will be no charge for admission to this meeting but a charge for refreshments will be made

 Doors open from 7:15pm, for 7.30pm start

 All welcome, refreshments served

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Where to find copies of old newspapers and the many types of information available for family history research.

Sylvia will give an update on using newspapers in your research.

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

Please note this meeting will be at Sale Moor Community Centre, Norris Road, Sale M33 2TN

Computer Club's September Meeting on Zoom

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The Alsager Group will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary at the AGM with a special cake and refreshments. Members free. Visitors £3

We would welcome suggestions for the next 25 years.

James Wright is an award-winning buildings archaeologist and a self-confessed Alan Garner fan. He runs The Weirdstone Walk website which seeks to track down every location mentioned in the Weirdstone Trilogy. Alan Garner himself has described the venture as: “the first to give the subject a proper treatment.” James has two decades professional experience of ferreting around in people’s cellars, hunting through their attics and digging up their gardens. He hopes to find meaningful truths about how ordinary and extraordinary folk lived their lives in the mediaeval and early modern periods. He is the author of the popular Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog. This talk follows James’s attempt to walk the locations from Alan Garner’s Weirdstone Trilogy (The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath and Boneland) with an especial focus on archaeological sites. It includes prehistoric burial mounds, ancient standing stones, mediaeval houses, Victorian copper mines and the seventeenth century farm which was the inspiration for Highmost Redmanhey. Interwoven within the presentation is consideration for Garner’s own published fieldwork and research within the world of archaeology.

This event is for members only and registration opens on 1st September, when the ‘Register [Individual]’ button will show on the bottom left of the Event details on the FHSC website for you to click and then process your registration, you will receive an email confirmation. Registration will close on  16th September.

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 -   

PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT RECORD SEMINAR TALKS

A talk by Peter Jenkins

(Image: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

Adrian will demonstrate several iterations of maps over time and how they can help with your family history.

The September FHSC Cheshire Research Buddies topic of the month is Wallasey - 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.