Alsager Group: ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY - Janet Few
Chester Helpdesk at The StoryHouse
Chester Group run a family history help desk at the Library at Storyhouse, Hunter Street, Chester CH1 2AR, from 10 am to 12 noon on Tuesdays which is open to everyone looking for help with their family history.
If you are a newcomer to family history or are looking for some local knowledge or have run up against a brickwall or would like some help on a computing or internet aspect of family history, just ask. There is always somebody who would be pleased to help
Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre: Helpdesk
Gay Oliver will be at Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre on the first and third Tuesdays of each month there to help anyone on a one-to-one basis either to start your family history or to solve queries between 2.00pm and 4.00pm
Please ring them on 01613424242 to make an appointment or contact Gay via:
FHSC Seminars: Tracing your industrial labourer ancestors by Nick Barratt
Dr Nick Barratt is an author, broadcaster and historian best known for his work on BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are. He is the Executive Director of Student Journey at Royal Holloway, University of London, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a teaching fellow at the University of Dundee and a visiting fellow at the Open University. Nick is the President of the Hampshire Genealogical Society, and a past President of the Family History Federation.
This talk examines the key sources that you'd use to trace industrial labourers and a variety of professions linked to coal mining, factory workers and transportation networks, and find out more about their ways of life.
This event is for members only and registration opens on 1st January, 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 19th January
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 – . 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.
Chester Helpdesk at The StoryHouse
Chester Group run a family history help desk at the Library at Storyhouse, Hunter Street, Chester CH1 2AR, from 10 am to 12 noon on Tuesdays which is open to everyone looking for help with their family history.
If you are a newcomer to family history or are looking for some local knowledge or have run up against a brickwall or would like some help on a computing or internet aspect of family history, just ask. There is always somebody who would be pleased to help