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I hope that you are finding the Ezine informative and useful and I am sure that you will gain new information and ideas from it. As both Vice Chairman and Education Officer I have an extensive brief and fully intend to make myself available as widely as possible. Many of you who are members of family history societies are now asking the question, ‘ What are the benefits of membership?’ This is to be expected in the current climate of ‘Family History on the Internet’. If you are reading this then I hope that you still have an interest in what is going on. I would like that level of interest to continue but would ask as did John F KENNEDY, ‘Ask not what your society can do for you but what you can do for your society’. All societies need help in project work, administration, preparation and packing of journals – the list is endless. Many of you reading this will already be helping in some way, whether large or small, but if you aren’t, please, please contact your local society and see what they need. You don’t HAVE to be a committee member; of course if that is how you wish to help then I am sure you will be most welcome! Every one of our societies probably does something unique that helps them enhance their image and membership numbers, if we all continue to talk and share our ideas we will certainly benefit from the trade in ideas. Please help all of us ‘Benefit from our membership’ by bringing forward ideas of what we should be doing, I can assure you that I WILL BE LISTENING & ACTING. David Holman, Vice Chairman & Education Officer Top of page
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www.festivalofhistory.org.uk or phone 0870 333 1183. 10 FREE FAMILY TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY! English Heritage is offering 10 free family tickets to this blockbuster event. For the chance to win a ticket, all you need to do is to answer the following question and email your answer (in the subject line of your email) to competition@ffhs.org.uk by 1st July 2007
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Who Do You Think You Are? - Live!.. A Good Time Was Had By All
Over 11,500 people visited the 'Who Do You Think You Are? Live!' event at Olympia, London over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, eager to extend their family, local, social and military history knowledge.
Dick Eastman author of "Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter." interviewed a number of people during the event for the internet based TV station 'Roots TV' including Maggie Loughran (FFHS Administrator), Paul Blake (former FFHS Vice Chairman) and Colin Chapman (FFHS Vice President). These and many other interviews can be seen by visiting Roots TV
A selection of photographs taken at the event can be found on the FFHS website
The dates for next years event is 3 - 5 May 2008 at Olympia, London.
visit Roots TV >
Education
Seminar
Date: Sat 10 November 2007
Webmaster’s Seminar
Date: Sat 23 February 2008
AGM 2008 hosted by Devon FHS & Cornwall FHS in Plymouth at their Family History Fair on 29th March 2008
more about this event & to book a table >
Education Seminars for Society Officers and Society Members.
The FFHS Education Sub-committee starts to take ‘Education’ forward by organising a series of seminars for society officers and society members
For
all those event organisers or those like me, who enjoy
attending family history events, a visit to
to find out more or list your event >
This months
special offers from Genfair include.....
Help Researching your Military Ancestors & Photograph.
If you would
like to be notified of further special offers from Genfair
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One of the biggest issues facing family history societies today is the lack of volunteers!
Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Surrey are looking for shoppers from the period 1945 – 1975 to talk about their experiences.
Our pay-per-view website of
databases for England & Wales
Television Creates a New and Much Older History for “Britain”
Over the past ten years two British television channels BBC2 and Channel 4 have produced many fine “television histories” on a range of topics and events.
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