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Projects have been, and continue to be, one of the most important functions of family history societies and, under the FFHS umbrella, have developed from producing small local collections in booklet form and microfiche to co-operative collections of data on a national basis such as the 1881 census and the National Burial Index. With the rapid changes in family history research and searchers’ expectations of access to records, the FFHS set up FamilyHistoryOnline to accommodate member societies’ work and widen the usage of their indexes and transcriptions. However, anyone reading family history magazines, searching on the web, reading newspapers or watching TV will know that a larger genealogical company is much more able to market and publicise their services than the Federation has been able to do with FamilyHistoryOnline. The FFHS is therefore pleased to announce that they have secured a partnership with the UK company 'FindMyPast' to ensure societies’ data receives the acclaim and international audience it deserves. For further details visit www.ffhs.org.uk/projects/findmypast.php Carol McLee - FFHS Projects Officer Top of page
eBay your way to being Practical Family History’s Editor For A Day! Bid from 11- 21 October in aid of the FFHS! Have you ever thought ‘I wonder what it’s like to be the editor of Practical Family History (PFH) magazine?’ Well, now’s the once-in-a-lifetime chance to find out! From 11 - 21 October, you’ll have the opportunity to bid to be PFH’s Editor for the Day in eBay’s TopLots auction, Here’s what you’ll be bidding for: > You’ll be PFH’s VIP Guest Editor for a Day and discover just what it entails to click here to bid (11 - 21 October)
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On 28 September the FFHS was advised by the GRO's Certificate Services Branch that a certificate collection service will be available at the GRO office in Southport, Lancashire with effect from 30 October 2007. Following ths at the Family Records Centre (FRC) Users Consultative Group Meeting on 3 October 2007 the schedule for withdrawal of the paper indexes from the FRC was also confirmed. For more details on both of these visit the FFHS website An E-petition to ensure that the General Register Office completes ASAP, as promised, the digitisation of, and online index to, the national BMD ledgers dating back to 1837 previously held in the Family Records Centre in London, has been created on the Prime Ministers Website Full background behind the closure of the FRC can be found by visiting the FFHS website First Floor Family Records Centre (TNA) move to Kew With the planned closure of the Family Records Centre (FRC) in Islington, the National Archives at Kew will be making changes to enable them to integrate the services The National Archives offers at the FRC. This will entail building works at Kew until spring 2008. As well as doing essential works to the fabric of the building, they will be improving the layout of the reading rooms based on feedback from their visitors. For more information on this and proposed closure dates at Kew see September 12 2007 saw the arrival at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint (LDS) Chapel Crawley of Family Search on the Road, where Mary Teviot, President of the FFHS gave a short address highlighting the long association between the Church and Family History Societies. This three day exhibition at Crawley gave everyone interested in Family History the opportunity to come and try their hand at discovering ancestors assisted and guided by members of the Church and the Sussex Family History Group. Family Search on the Road is a major free family history exhibition now touring throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The exhibition features displays, free to use computer terminals, and state of the art software linked via satellite to the world’s largest genealogical database with over one billion names. Family Search on the Road will be of interest to anyone researching their family tree.
Published by The National Archives (TNA), Ancestors provides exclusive low-downs on TNA’s activities, including the release of new records and cataloguing projects. The magazine will show you how, with a bit of perseverance and luck, you can research ancestors before 1750, using a wealth of lesser-known records. subscribe online >
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Education Seminar Webmaster’s Seminar AGM 2008 hosted by Devon FHS & Cornwall FHS in Plymouth at their family history fair on 29th March 2008
Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE Olympia, London: The event organisers are offering discounted tickets for group bookings of 20 who can purchase two adult tickets for just £15 - this offers a saving of £25 off the full price adult ticket. - if you are interested in purchasing bulk tickets at this special discounted rate, simply email neeshatw@brandevents.co.uk To win one of two six month subscriptions to Ancestors Magazine simply answer the following question. Q. Who is the editor of Ancestors Magazine? a) Simon Schama Find the answer > Discover Shropshire Project – Shropshire County Council The Discover Shropshire Project encourages people to find out more about Shropshire families and the history of Shropshire communities. The project has digitised a huge amount of material that was previously only available at Shropshire Archives and made it available in two brand new local history centres at Bridgnorth Library and at Oswestry Library. A bonus for Shropshire based researchers is that Ancestry is now available at all Shropshire libraries and at Shropshire Archives completely free of charge.
FEDERATION AWARDS The Federation currently makes two awards to its member societies, both of which were represented at the Federation General Meeting in Durham on 1 September 2007. The Elizabeth Simpson Award for the Journal making the Best Contribution to Family History was won this year by North Cheshire Family History Society. The FFHS Web Award for the Society with the Best Website was won by Sussex Family History Group. Scans reveal lost gravestone text We all know the problems of trying to read old gravestones. Help is now at hand. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are making high resolution 3D scans of tombstones to reveal the carved patterns in the stone. Competition Winners | |||||
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