| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Convenor: |
Alan Swindale
Tel: 01388 488348
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| When: | On Thursdays 1:30 pm-3:30 pm 2nd Thursday of each month |
| Venue: | Enterprise House |
See Calendar for dates of meetings.
Meeting usually have a one hour tutorial on a selected topic followed by one hour discussion on group members’ problems or brick walls.
Learn how to grow your family tree and share your enthusiasm with like-minded friends.
Past topics have been:
- Getting started with your family history
- Parish registers
- Civil Registration
- Making sense of the census
- Where there’s a will there’s a way
- Illegitimacy and Bastardy Bonds
- Using AncestryTM to find your Ancestors
- How do I know I’m right?
Latest Group Reports
- August 2026 - Family Search New FeatureTen members joined Alan’s demonstration of FamilySearch’s new feature – Full Text Search. The Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) has millions of microfilms in a vault in Granite Mountain, Utah, which are not indexed… Read more: August 2026 - Family Search New Feature
- July 2026 - Getting Started with British Army RecordsAlan Swindale The group watched a presentation from the 2024 RootsTech “Getting Started with British Army Records” by Raymon Nesbitt of Family Search. British Army records commence in 1660 and indexed records can be searched… Read more: July 2026 - Getting Started with British Army Records
- June 2026 - What can I find out about my great-grandmother?There were nine members listening to the talk “What can I find out about my great-grandmother?” We each have four great-grandmothers and they are far enough away for much to have disappeared into the mists… Read more: June 2026 - What can I find out about my great-grandmother?
- May 2026 - How Do I Know I’m Right?Ten members of the group listened to Alan giving a talk “How Do I Know I’m Right?” An element of doubt sometime creeps into the mind of every family history researcher – what if I’m… Read more: May 2026 - How Do I Know I’m Right?
- April 2026 - The Use of Property Deeds in Family History ResearchEight members of the group listened to a talk by guest speaker Catherine Ryan on “The Use of Property Deeds in Family History Research”. Catherine has been conducting research for her PhD on 18th century property… Read more: April 2026 - The Use of Property Deeds in Family History Research