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Stage 1 Evening Skills Course 17 January - 11 April 2019

Lori
23.11.2018
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Join us at the Society of Genealogists’ popular Thursday evening course to develop your family history skills. Wanting to know about our own family’s history is a very natural feeling. Understanding what shaped our ancestors’ lives makes history come alive and helps us see our place in it. Most of us enjoy meeting and learning from expert genealogists and we find others’ ancestry almost as fascinating as our own.

The Society of Genealogists offer Family History Skills for anyone that is interested in genealogy and wants to explore their family history. In a carefully, well rounded curriculum, our Tutors introduce the records that count and help you use them effectively...

Lori
16.11.2018
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In this talk, Penny McMahon offers a short introduction to the Parliamentary Archives and the records they hold. She then takes a closer look at the family history resources that Parliament holds and how best to access them. The Parliamentary Archives have a surprising number of records that would be of interest to any genealogist looking into ancestors from around the country, particularly from the 17th century onwards...

Lori
25.10.2018
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Learn how ordinary Londoners were affected by air raids, food shortages and the war effort. David Evans gives us an excellent snapshot of family who lived during the Great War...