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THE REAL VALUE OF FAMILY HISTORY CONFERENCESFollowing the foundation of the FFHS in 1974, there was a need to arrange formal business meetings on a regular basis to keep members fully informed. Such meetings needed to be held at convenient venues throughout the United Kingdom in order to involve as many representatives as possible. Selecting venues was undertaken in conjunction with member societies, which had local knowledge of the premises available in their area. Often, overnight accommodation was arranged, frequently in the homes of society members living in the vicinity. Many societies began to introduce lectures and visits to supplement the Federation business meetings and these usually attracted additional participants and transformed the weekend into a major event. With increasing numbers, the organisers made use of university and college campuses, hotels and conference centres, which proved remarkably satisfactory. Furthermore they created greater opportunities for social interaction enabling participants to confer on a personal basis thereby making new friends. for more information on the next national conference > Derek Palgrave, Vice President Top of page
A familiar face to many
of you, Maggie Loughran, FFHS joint administrator and co-founder
of this Ezine will be leaving the FFHS in early 2009. Di Maskell - FFHS Ezine Editor
Thanks to this groundbreaking website from The National Archives, people from around the country, and the rest of the world, can read how British Governments of the past took some of the seminal decisions of the 20th century. From the Somme to Suez, via Black Wednesday and Dunkirk, the ‘Cabinet papers, 1915 -1977’ project, provides a fascinating opportunity to delve into Government discussions that shaped the country we live in today. Users will be able to key-word search the entire collection, making these documents more accessible than ever before, and opening up a vast amount of information to people all over the world. As part of the website, a host of innovative teaching aids support the papers, helping users to understand and interpret the documents on screen. These include interactive maps and images, which support the content of the records. The website is an especially rich resource for students, covering more than 100 topics which form an integral part of the A-level examination syllabuses and university programmes. Log on and explore the workings of Government > Top of page
The website for the next national Family & Local History conference ‘Open the Door & Here are the People’ is now live. The conference hosted by the Halsted Trust is being held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, 28 to 31 August 2009. Covering a broad spectrum of subjects of interest to the family, local and social historian with experts and celebrity speakers on subjects from buildings to immigration and the military to industrial Britain. The conference will see expert speakers from The Galleries of Justice, King's College, London, The Library & Museum of Freemasonry, The Media Archive for Central England, National Maritime Museum, National Monuments Record, Parliamentary Archives, Royal Geographical Society, The National Archives and The Women’s Library. Top speakers from the family history world include Paul Blake, Else Churchill, John Hanson, Sharon Hintze, Maggie Loughran, Derek Palgrave, Geoff Riggs, Mary Teviot and Alec Tritton.
Making History Making History is the product of a one-year Institute of Historical Research (IHR) project. The aim of the project was to develop a major online resource tracing the ‘Making of History’ in the past century and more, including audio recordings of interviews with historians, statistical material, an image gallery, and newly-commissioned contextual essays and studies. history of genealogy / family history > Top of page
Eneclann have
released 'World War 1 Irish Soldiers, Their Final Testament' (An
Index to the Wills of Irish Soldiers who died 1914-1918) compiled and
edited by Kiara Gregory. The index lists over 9,000 of the surviving
wills including copious personal details as well as their place and
date of death, but also details beneficiaries and relatives.
The Artists Rifles
Roll of Honour, the Anzac Roll of Honour and the New Zealand Roll of
Honour as well as the Waterloo Roll call, Commissioned Sea Officers of
the Royal Navy 1660-1815 and the British Naval Biographical Dictionary
1849, all form part of a new collection released by
familyrelatives.com
Ancestry.co.uk has
launched online the
UK Medical Registers, 1859-1959.
This database contains annually published books listing all of the
names of doctors who were licensed to practise in the United Kingdom
and abroad from 1859-1959.
findmypast.co.uk
have launched the 1851 census online plus additional data for: 1901
census and Parish Registers. For
WWW.BMDregisters.co.uk The
official National Archives site for Non Parochial and Non Conformist
records has just added over
600,000 records of birth, baptism, marriage and burial. These have not
previously been searchable online and again contain images
of birth and baptismal records. The
records were previously viewable on microfilm as part of the RG8
series. For the latest on the indexing projects being undertaken by familysearch.org vist the website > To search the completed Record Search Pilot site >
The live event format of the hugely popular BBC TV series, Who Do You Think You Are? takes place for a third consecutive year at London’s Olympia on the brand new show dates of 27 February – 1 March 09. Dick Eastman author of "Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter." interviewed a number of people at WDYTYA-Live 2008 for the internet based TV station 'Roots TV' These and many other interviews can be seen by visiting Roots TV >
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look at how we can improve our lives, our work and our hobbies
we hear this cry. In a world full of technology there are so
many ways to communicate but so little real communication and
much mis-communication. FFHS Ezine, FFHS News, FFHS Members
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Over 26 Million BMD index entries on-line. Several new counties have BMD index web sites in development but there are many who may not have heard of the UKBMD project yet. The software initially developed for the Cheshire BMD web site is available free for any society and register office that wishes to use it to create an on-line BMD index. Contact UKBMD via the link on the web site
FFHS NEWS -
Talks and Tours
The
Nottingham based Galleries of
Justice have a new series of
talks with Senior Curator and
Archivist, Bev Baker followed by a tour of the Galleries of
Justice.
Looking for the ideal gift for the family historian this christmas? NBI 2nd Edition Now Only £35.24 RRP £45 The Manuscripts Section's reading room of the Guildhall Library will be temporarily closed for approximately six months from March 2009 as part of an extensive refurbishment programme at the Guildhall Library. Access will be at the reading room of London Metropolitan Archives. A regular newsletter dedicated to the refurbishment will appear shortly, and meetings are being planned for early in 2009 at which you can find out more about the Guildhall Library refurbishment and other exciting developments such as digitisation. more information about the refurbishment >
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