See above image for details. Our Family History Society will be at the show

Lest We Forget This is an ongoing project and will continue to be up-dated Kate Booth has been collecting names from all the War Memorials in Tameside for a number of years now and they are now compiled into a global list. They have been gathered from various sources and some have much more information about the casualties researched by various people over the years. Kate has photographs of most of these memorials and should be able to send out to anyone interested.  Her index is contained in an 81 page document downloaded from the following website: http://www.tamesidefamilyhistory.co.uk

Sally Ann Matthews came to visit Tameside Local Studies Library to thank members of our Tameside Group for our research which helped create a paper trail for her DNA results linking her to Corrie Legend Amanda Barrie.

Jubilee House, St Paul's St. Crewe. CW12QA    For parking use postcode CW12PT which is Victoria centre carpark (Asda carpark at the top end)  

A new weblink for anyone interested in their canal and river boat ancestors.  New for April 2018 Articles fron the Nantwich Guardian which includes some material from Runcorn as well as Nantwich:  http://www.spellweaver-online.co.uk/

Details of the next Bloore Society meeting

Bank Holiday closing

I wonder if you could distribute this (https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CALSusers) to FHSC members in whatever way you think best? It’s a short survey which will help to inform the planning of new facilities and the new service. We will be looking at the results in February and building them into the HLF bid.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best wishes

Paul

Paul Newman 
Archives and Heritage Manager 
Cheshire Shared Services - Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Only Eleven Questions

Saturday 11th November at West Kirby Museum - see poster above.

Below is today's news from the GRO: https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp

General Register Office (GRO) - PDF Extended Pilot

The GRO is piloting a service from 12 October 2017 to provide portable document format (PDF) copies of digitised historical birth and death records. The pilot will run for a minimum of 3 months to enable GRO to assess the demand for this service over a prolonged period.

Applications for each PDF cost £6, must be made online, and include a GRO index reference. 

England and Wales records which are available as PDFs in this extended pilot include: 

Births: 1837 –1916
Deaths: 1837 –1957

Note: A PDF is not a certificate and has no “evidential” value, and therefore a certificate is required for official purposes, e.g. applying for a passport, driving licence or giving notice of marriage. 

Indexes

Have you used our Online Historical Birth and Death Indexes yet? They may include extra information, for example; maiden name or age at death.

Border History - Local nad Family History Fair - Saturday 14th October at Betley Village Hall 10.00am - 3.00pm

Click here to downlaod a flyer with much more information  Borders Fair 2017

This year's BLO(O)R(E) Society AGM is to be held in Stoke on Trent on Saturday 28th October.  Please download this flyer for full details. Bloor Society AGM October 2017

Please note that our automatic reset password has stopped working since we updated our software yesterday.

If you cannot remember your password, please contact:

We are working to fix the problem as soon as possible.

very best wishes, Gay Oliver Web Administration

This is advance notice of our AGM  Saturday 21st October at our Mobberley Research Centre.  click this AGM Advert from Cheshire Ancestor containing full details taken from our September issue of the Cheshire Ancestor.

The Agenda for this meeting and the Draft Minutes from 2016 have been uploaded to our public documents. Click on FHSCheshire > Public Documents.

Our Tameside Group was represented at this event on Saturday 8th June, where we met some interesting people.  I was particularly pleased to meet an 85 year old lady who remembers being a small child and attending Suffragette meetings with her Grandmother.

Macclesfield Group

Unfortunately due to ill health  the advertised speaker has had to cancel his talk. The meeting of the Macclesfield group on Tuesday 25th April will now be a Virtual Tour of Macclesfield with Howard & Rosie Rowley.

The Macclesfield group of the Family History Society of Cheshire will be hosting

A demonstration of TWILE by Kelly Marsden one of its founders.

Twile is a timeline of everything that's ever happened in your family. It pulls together all of your family history, memories, photos and stories in the same place which all the family can explore and add to.

This will take place on 23rd May 2017 starting at 2.00pm at The Salvation Army Church, Roe Street, Macclesfield SK11 6XD (Entrance on Wellington Street, opposite the Churchill Way Car Park.)

All members of the society are welcome although booking is essential as places are limited – please email  to book a place.

To get the most out of the demonstration you need to bring a laptop, ipad or similar device.

We will be on the North West Group stand and also represented by Federation of Family History Societies.  David Lambert, Sharon and Ian Hartas, Rosie Rowley, Geoff Johnson and myself will be present on the stand on occasions during the 3 days. If anyone wants to have a chat about their research we will be willing to advise.

Regards

David Smetham (Chairman)

The next Blo(o)r(e) society meeting will take place on Saturday 29th April at:

The Church Hall of St. Mark's, Basford
211, Basford Park Road, Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, ST5 0PG

pdf Bloore Society April 29th 2017 (102 KB)