The Family History Unit will be open on Saturday 27th. of April, from 10.00-12.00

An opportunity for you to carry out further research in our library or to access the internet  for Family History sites.

Saturday opening  has been postponed, the lift will still be out of commission for next week as well

The April FHSC Cheshire Research Buddies topic of the month is Tameside - 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, 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.

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday 1st May 7 pm - 9:00 pm.

This meeting we will be welcoming our very own Chair Margaret Roberts as Guest speaker on the topic of researching your ancestors through the online Newspaper Archive websites 

Navigating through vast collections of articles dating back hundreds of years can be a daunting task without the right search techniques so come along and learn some tips and advice on how you can kickstart your newspaper research

Free Parking 

Free Cold Refreshments

Members £2 / Non Members £3  

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,

Clifton Road West

Runcorn WA7 4TE

Kind Regards

John Barlow - Group Leader

Sheila Robins using slides will talk about the graves of the famous and infamous buried in Willow Grove  Cemetery.

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