Lancashire Archives Calendar for 2020
Some fascinating talks and events lined up for 2020 pdf click to download leaflet (1.06 MB) (12 pages)
Derbyshire U3A conferences at Buxton
Angela and I attended their Conference in September and thoroughly enjoyed it. They have a fabulous line up of speakers including Dr Nick Barratt and Debbie Kennett.
They are hosting a half day conference on Friday 20th March where the topics will consist of what was life was like farming in Tudor times and Commonwealth War Graves records.
Their Full day conference in September Saturday 19th where topics will include One place Names – Janet Few., Putting your ancestors in place. Debbie Kennett on the Joy of Surnames and Dr Nick Barratt on House Histories. One more speaker yet to book.
Full details in the pdf flyer and booking form click here (739 KB)
Tameside Archaeology Day at St John’s Saturday 29th February2020
Looks like an exciting line up of lectures including the full graveyard project at St John’s, Mike Nevelle talking about the Priory at Cheetham’s Park, the Archaeological finds at Mesolithic sites at Iron Tongue Hill, Carrbook and Grange farm in Hattersley. Full details in the flyer attached plus booking form £10 for the day pdf Click here to download a flyer and booking form (505 KB)
Friday 31st January at West Kirby entrance fee £5 see poster above
Family History Course 2020
Are you interested in a short family history course for beginners or as a refresher for those who want to know about new developments?
To take place weekly at 2.00pm on Mondays starting on Monday 13th January 2020 at Mobberley Research Centre, Rajar Building, Town Lane, Mobberley.
Tutor: Jean Laidlaw (Macclesfield group leader).
Cost £5 per session which includes the use of the Research Centre Facilities: FREE access to Ancestry, FindMyPast and The Genealogist together with the extensive library of books, documents, microfiche and local newspapers.
Topics to be covered will include: Civil Registration, Census Returns, Parish Registers, Printed Sources, Recording and Managing your Information, Internet Research and more.
For more information please email Jean Laidlaw - .
CHESTER FAMILY HISTORY GROUP CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY
The Chester Group of the Family History Society of Cheshire celebrated its 50th anniversary last week. The group was formed in 1969 and held its first meetings at Stanley Palace. During that year the group joined with another family history group in Sale to form the Family History Society of Cheshire which was one of the earliest county family history societies in the country. The Society has grown from an initial membership of about 80 to a current membership of over 1,500. There are now thirteen local branches spread across the historical county of Cheshire, a county-wide Computer Group which meets in Hartford, two family history libraries and research centres, one at Mobberley and one at Crewe, and an award winning magazine and website.
At last week's meeting to celebrate the anniversary, Chester Group Leader David Guyton welcomed members and a number of special guests including two whose membership dated back to the formation of the Society in 1969, two former Chester Group Leaders, and representatives from the Family History Society of Cheshire including the recently re-elected Chairman, Alan Bennett, who also happened to be Chairman when the Chester Group celebrated its 40th anniversary. David Guyton gave a short talk highlighting some interesting and amusing items discovered during the course of family history research and showing some photographs of Chester fifty years ago. It was striking just how much the shopping scene has changed and how dated the City of Chester buses and private cars of the period now looked. Following the talk, Alan Bennett cut a ceremonial cake specially decorated with Chester's coat of arms and members and visitors took part in a family history quiz and enjoyed some festive food and refreshments.
The Chester Group holds meetings on the last Thursday of the month at All Saints Church in Hoole, Chester. Most meetings feature a speaker on an aspect of family history or local history. As well as a talk, there is a family history help desk and the opportunity to discuss family history topics with other members. Many members have particular areas of knowledge on family history or experience with using computers and the internet for family history. There is also a raffle and tea, coffee and biscuits are served at the end of the meeting. New members and visitors are always welcome.
The Group also runs two family history help desks. The help desk at the Chester History and Heritage Centre previously at St Michael's Church in Bridge Street, Chester, is now at the Grosvenor Museum in Grosvenor Street, Chester CH1 2DD. Opening times are 10.30 am to 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm on Tuesdays and Fridays. There is also a help desk at the Library at Storyhouse from 10 am to 12 noon on Tuesdays. Whether 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.
For more information check the Family History Society of Cheshire website at www.fhsc.org.uk or contact the Chester Group at .
Another exciting new feature has been launched today in the shop.
You can now buy Gift Vouchers to spend on membership of the ociety. You can automatically send the details to a friend or relative, or have the details sent to yourself for passing on.
See Gift Vouchers for further details
An exciting new feature has been launched today in the shop.
You can now buy Gift Vouchers to spend in the shop. You can automatically send the details to a friend or relative, or have the details sent to yourself for passing on.
See Gift Vouchers for further details
Whilst Angela and I were at the U3A conference at Buxton in September, I spent sometime in discussion with this Manchester University project. they promised to keep in touch with any progress. It seemed at the time that they were going to release the results of their research fairly soon in a number of formats.
I received this email yesterday
"Hello to all of our collaborators, interviewees, and friends across the world!
I'm very glad to announce that we are going live today with our Double Helix History podcast, discussing some of the fascinating aspects of genetic genealogy and family history we came across during our year of interviews and events across 3 continents, where you can hear from a range of family historians and academics.
You can listen to all 4 episodes now via Anchor: https://anchor.fm/
Or the first 2 via Youtube: https://www.youtube.
You can also search for us on iTunes and Spotify.
Please feel free to share far and wide in your family history networks!
We would like to thank everyone who has given their time and expertise to the project so far - you can see what we have been up to, and read our guest contributions on our blog: https://sites.
We have 3 articles in the can as a result of our interviews and focus groups ready for publication in the new year, so we hope to be in touch with further news when they are released, as well as about upcoming events in the UK. "
Best wishes
Jerome & Matt
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Have you investigated our RESEARCH MENU on our Website? Why not post a question on our Research Assistance Forums? Why not see if you can answer some of the queries here? Our Forum is for paid up members to ask for help. Only members can post questions but anyone can provide answers. There is an equivalent forum for non members who have simply signed up to try our website. Only non-members can post queries, but again anybody can reply to them. These are not a look-up service for members to ask FHSC to do research, you should use our research service (paid members only) for this. (also under our Research menu). They are for members and website users to assist each other We have so many experienced researchers amongst our membership, so join in the discussions. Somebody may be able to point you in the direction of just the nugget of information that is not available on the internet. You could make someone's day by giving them a push in the right direction. Always try and explain how to get to the information instead of just providing the data While you are still in the Research Menu think about adding your surnames and check if anyone else is researching the same surnames. For members these names can be from anywhere in the world. For non-members they are restricted to Chehshire We are also exchanging journals with about 25 other societies including in Canada and Australia. There is a large collection here available to members only. These are more than worth the cost of memberhsip NEW MENU in the RESEARCH SECTION to archive.org a digital archive of books and other periodicals and even speech archives. There are ten links here to show examples to start and more will be added over time I hope you find something of interest here. very best wishes Gay J Oliver Web Administration and Tameside Group Leader |
Meeting on Wednesday 13th November at Tameside
Chris O'Brien came to talk to us about Neville Cardus, long time cricket commentator for the Manchester Guardian and also Music Critic. His Book Cardus Uncovered: Neville Cardus: The Truth, The Untruth and The Higher Truth.
NC was born in Manchester the son of a prostitute and an unknown father - eventually receiving a knighthood in 1967. Chris availed himself of newly archived material here and in Australia to carefully create a timeline of Nevile's life, not helped that Neville went by 14 iterations of his name and pseudonyims and most of the other characters involved in his upringing also seemed to change their names at will. The story involves Breach of Promise, Divorce his favourite Aunt's assocciation with a Turkish consul and Neville's mistress.
Fascinating life and fascinating talk - Thank your Chris.
A perfect talk for Family Historians and Chris has agreed to be a speaker at any event the FHSC organises in 2020, conference, fair etc
Ruins Relics and Monsters. Public History and Placemaking in Cheshire and Beyond
Please be aware that the use of the large scale plotter for printing family trees (as advertised on the Mobberley Flyer) is no longer available at Mobberley. An updated copy of the flyer will be uploaded as soon as possible
This year for our GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY we held our AGM at the Lion Salt works at Northwich. It proved a very good format and an excellent venue. We had two excellent talks, one by David Thomas our Northwich Group leader all about the Anderton Boatlift where he had worked for several years. A Marveloous feat of engineering and a feature of the landscape fascinating to watch it in action. Our second talk was by Peter Solan all about the history and extrraction of salt in Cheshire; how it was laid down and created in the first place and the vast millions of tons lying underneath Cheshire. I was particularly interested in his study of the linguistics of the word SALT prefixed SAL this side of Europe and over the Alps prefixed HAL.
The museum has an intersting shop with many books and crystals for sale. Somee of us ate lunch atthe Salt barge Pub across the road. and after the afternoon talk wa a complimentary cream tea.
The business of our AGM was failry short and brief, with a report from our retiring Chairman, Victoria. All the very best for you travels. our webmaster, Alan Bennett, was voted in as our new Chairman. He has done the job before so knows what is expected. He will continue as our Webmaster and will see us through a period of change for Family History Societies.
We also presented Ian Hartas with a lifelong membership for all his years of work creating and implementing the UKBMD project now covering eleven geographical areas of the UK. Thank you Ian.
Family History Open Day
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Victoria Road, Macclesfield will be holding a family history open day on Saturday 9th November 2019 from 10.00am to 4.00pm. The Macclesfield group of the Family Histroy Society of Cheshire will be represented. See below for details.
Message from one of our members
For your information- we have updated our web site at stg.org.uk as part of the requirements of receiving a Lottery Grant. It now includes details of the registers of both New St George and Old St George and war grave details. Some of the results will be patched through to Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website
Regards Alan Smith Webmaster for St Georges Church
A brand new publication for those with an interest in Alsager.
The output of a very professional project to document and verify the memorials in great detail.
https://www.fhsc.org.uk/products-2/downloads/download-christ-church-alsager-mi
its available for download now for £6.
FHSC sends lots of emails to our members and website users for a multitude of reasons.
We deliver them through a professional email service provider called Elastic Email.
It has come to my attention that a reasonable number of our emails arentbeing delivered because Elastic Email have got a block on some of your email addresses.
If you find you are not receiving any emails from us then please use the following link to re-enable delivery to you:
https://api.elasticemail.com/contact/subscribe?version=2&pID=f65a4548-8a8a-42d5-994c-721c718b57f8
You just provide your email address and then you will then recieve an email with another link in it. Clicking on that link will confirm to Elastic Email that you wish to receive emails from FHSC.
You can control the types of emails you get from us at:
https://www.fhsc.org.uk/?Itemid=9222
The other issue is that we still hold lots of invalid email addresses for a number of you. These are primarily caused by:
- you not having provided one
- ones provided by email providers that are no longer in existence, e.g. wanadoo and fsnet
Please log in and check your details as soon as possible at:
https://www.fhsc.org.uk/new-my-membership/my-profile-2#login-details
Regards
Alan
Webmaster
Over the last week I have added about 70 new downloads to the online shop, Sales are going very well.
Hopefully you will find some items of interest.
We held our 50th Anniversary AGM yesterday at the Lion Salt Works.
During the meeting our chairman, Victoria Doran, stood down as she has decided to spend the next 18 months touring the world. I am sure we all send our good wishes for what should be a fantastic experience for Victoria.
I have been elected to fill the void as chairman, a role I previously held from 2008 until 2012.
I will also continue as webmaster and hope that I can find the necessary time for both roles.
I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in my new role.
My main focus will be how to restructure the society to provide what members need and our survival through turbulent times for family history societies.
Kind Regards
Alan Bennett
Chairman and Webmaster