Apologies.
We had a hiccup in the sending out of the notification announcing that the latest Cheshire Ancesor was available for download.
Some of you may have received duplicate emails.
We are sorry for any inconvenience.
Alan
Webmaster
STRETFORD FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORY FAIR
SATURDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2019
10 A.M TO 4 P.M.
ST MATTHEWS CHURCH HALL, CHESTER ROAD, STRETFORD, MANCHESTER M32 9AJ
ENTRANCE FEE £2
A talk on Local History is by Bill Newton & Bill Mather
Slides and Re-discovered Films From the Stretford House 50 Project. A collaboration between Stretford Local History & Manchester Modernist Society at 10.30 a.m.
A talk on Family History is by Sylvia Dillon
The talk will be about death certificates and causes of death from 1837 through to the 20th century at 2.30 p.m.
Whether a beginner or experienced family historian or interested in local history there will be something for everyone
The stands and exhibitors includes a variety of family and local history societies, maps and genealogical supplies
Our AGM will take place on Saturday the 2nd November 2019. Since this is the fiftieth anniversary of the Family History Society of Cheshire the executive committee is hoping to make this an extended celebratory event. This will be rather special full day event with two speakers and a free cream tea
Click on the advert below for full details
click below to go to our events page for details and a map for directions:
https://www.fhsc.org.uk/new-events/event/1682-fhsc-agm-50th-anniversary-celebration
This year the FHSC will be celebrating 50 years of Family History.
To Celebrate why not join to take part in the celebrations and what we have to offer. Over the 25 years I have been a member I have met wonderful friends, shared interests, visited many of the other groups, all very friendly and make you most welcome.
Becoming a member opens doors to exciting offers, free help, we show you how to help yourselves, you must do the hard work, its addictive once you get started you don’t want to stop! Who knows you could be related to Royalty or maybe not, but I can promise you, your journey takes you on a long path of twists and turns, intriguing, sometimes frustrating but never dull!
Let’s make this Golden Anniversary one to remember.
At the AGM held on Jul 3rd 2019, the following changes were made to the Committee
Group Leader Peter Rowley
Secretary Pat Eastup
Treasurer Christine Leith
Committee Linda Wilding & Maurice Littlemore
I would like to pay tribute to Linda who has been forced to stand down as Group Leader after 17 years of very active service. She has kept the Group going through a number of tough years for which we are grateful. Although she has given up Group Leader position, she has agreed to stay on the committee to help me through my first year as Group Leader. I would like to thank Pat for staying as Secretary and Christine for taking on he task of Treasurer.
Welcome to the new and improved FHSC website.
You will notice the striking gold colour scheme to celebrate our golden aniiversary this year.
We will resort to our more traditional green on New Years Day 2020.
We have done extensive testing of the new look and feel, but ........................... there may be issues we havent found.
Please notify the webmaster via Contact Us if you find anything that is broken.
The main functional change on this revision is an improved Links system. We hope you like it. If you have any suggestions for additional links then just let the Web Administrator know via Contact Us.
Alan
FHSC Webmaster
Geoff Oultram 9th December 1926- 12th July 2019 a long standing member of our Computer Club. His Service took place on the 28th July 2019 at Altrincham Crematorium.
Click to download a copy of his Eulogy read out at his funeral pdf Eulogy for Geoff Oultram (126 KB)
The Family History Conference
at The Palace Hotel, BUXTON, SK17 6AG
organised by The U3A Peak District Family History Network on Saturday 21st September
• Adele Emm – Mill Workers - Reachers, beamers, carders and throstlers? What on earth did your mill worker ancestors actually do? An hour’s talk by Adèle Emm, author of several genealogy books, will explain the role of more than just spinners and weavers.
• Alison Kay - Driver, Draughtman, Cleaner, Clerk: Discovering your railway family at the National Railway Museum. This talk will describe how NRM resources can help you discover your railway family and learn more about their lives. It will describe some of our key personal archive collections and will feature newly discovered film footage as well as highlights from the vast oral history collection.
• Doreen Hopwood - Migration – why and how our ancestors moved. Our ancestors were more migratory than we think, over both short and long distances. This presentation explores the reasons why they moved and the mechanics of their migration. Whether your ancestors chose to migrate or had the decision made for them, it explains the many sources which are available to follow your ancestor’s movements within the United Kingdom- and beyond.
• Dr Susan Buckham – Graveyards – Dr Buckham specialises in the interdisciplinary study of historic graveyards, with a particular focus on Scottish burial sites of the post-Reformation period. Drawing on 20 years of experience in graveyard recording, conservation, research and interpretation, Susan’s knowledge and skills spans graveyard history and development, conservation good practice, and the policy and legislation relevant to burial ground management and protection. This talk will describe the history of graveyards and their present day focus for visitors and care by local societies but will also describe the differences graveyards make to communities.
14 exhibitors, a mix of commercial and family history societies will also be in attendance. The cost for the day, which includes the talks, refreshments and a 2-course finger buffet lunch is £23. There may be some free parking at the hotel otherwise please use side streets or the pay and display car parks in town.
For more details and a booking form email
The very recent problems for people renewing or upgrading their subscriptions by PAYPAL have now been resolvedby the software developers of our Memberhsip software. Everything should be working fine now.
At the moment ther is when paying for memberhsip via PAYPAL, the redirect to paypal is not working and it is returning you to the website homepage.
It is an error we are aware of and has been raised with Tech Support and shgould be fixed very soon
Rosie Rowley reminder
Members’ Competition Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of FHSC
“A Golden Moment"
This is your opportunity to get into print! To commemorate the Society’s Golden anniversary in 2019, the Society is launching a very special members’ competition. Members are invited to submit an article to the competition for publication in the CHESHIRE ANCESTOR. In addition to publication, the winner will receive a £50 voucher to spend on FHSC Society publications, and a one - year digital subscription to Family Tree Magazine kindly offered by Warners Group Publications. Two runners-up will each receive a £25 voucher to spend on FHSC Society publications. The competition is open only to those who are current members of FHSC, and who joined prior to 1 July 2019. The article should be about “a golden moment” in your family history journey. This could be about breaking through a brick wall or an unexpected discovery related to the life of an ancestor. Ancestors can be male or female and the article should explain your special moment in your family history research. Further details are available in the June edition of Cheshire Ancestor.
very best,
GAY
This is an opportunity to win a free 3-day pass, worth £149, to the UK’s biggest genealogy conference, RootsTech London 2019, which takes place at the London ExCel Conference Centre from Thursday 24th to Saturday 26th October, 2019. Keynote speakers include Dan Snow, Nick Barratt and Donny Osmond – see RootsTech.org for full details.
Please read the full article by Rosie Rowley on the Macclesfield Reflects webpage: http://macclesfieldreflects.org.uk/2019/08/13/2019-rootstech/
You are advised to check whether our research centres are open before you travel. It could be that volunteers are finding it difficult to be there due to the floods: