Thanks to the guild of One Name Studies who posted this link on Facebook!

The past, present, future of your family tree are more fascinating than you realise!!! 

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/01/your-family-past-present-and-future.html

Guild of One‐Name Studies: Printed Sources Seminar
Venue: The Temple Centre, 44 Nottingham Road,
Nuthall, Nottingham, NG16 1DP
09:30 for 10:00 am, Saturday 17th May 2014

Printed Sources Seminar

A return to the Nottingham area and the Nuthall Centre, last visited in 2009. This time we shall be concentrating on ‘Printed Sources’. 

This title covers a number of interesting areas, from old newspapers to libraries and a few really unusual items we trust will be new for your family history research in whatever form.

Programme

09:30 — 10:00  Registration and Coffee
10:00 — 10:15  Welcome to the Seminar — Dominic Johnson
10:15 — 11:15  “All the news that’s fit to read”: Newspaper archives — Richard Heaton
11:15 — 11:30  Comfort Break
11:30 — 12:30  “Heraldic Detective Work from Scratch” – John Titford
12:30 — 13:30  Lunch
13:30 — 14:30  “Standing on the shoulders of giants”: Printed genealogies in the Society of Genealogists – Else Churchill
14:30 — 15:00  Tea Break
15:00 — 16:00  “Poll dancing for beginners”: Electoral Registers and Directories — Dominic Johnson
16:00 — 16:30  Question the Panel  
16:30                 Close of Seminar    

Seminar cost, including refreshments and buffet lunch, £15.00

To make the day more interactive, delegates are invited to bring along details of their work for display and sharing. Pin boards will be available for your use and the seminar coordinator will liaise with you beforehand.

For more information and booking on-line, see: www.one-name.org and look under the ‘Event Calendar’ tab.

We would like to ensure that any disabled delegate can participate fully in this event. Any delegate with any special requirements please telephone:
Guild Help Desk on 0800 011 2182.

The LFHHS Chorley Research Centre at Astley Hall Farm House closed today for refurbishment. We hope to be open before Easter with a totally modernised and refurbished research and education facility for our members. 

This refurbishment will provide a Research Centre comprising an all purpose research room, a computer research room, a library room, a training/meeting room, kitchen, and toilet. All heating, lighting, electrics, carpets are being replaced and all the walls redecorated. We have worked closely with the Officers of Chorley Council in the design stage of the refurbishment to provide a facility that we all can be proud of. Our research centre will become part of a new community facility providing an exhibition and meeting space at Astley Hall Farmhouse which is part of the Astley Hall and Park environment. Needless to say we are very fortunate and grateful to Chorley Council for spending a significant amount of money in these hard economic times to provide us with modernised facility within the historic and beautiful Astley Hall Farmhouse.

We are applying to the Heritage Lottery for funding to re-equip the centre to the same high standard that the council are refurbishing our centre. If we are successful we will be replacing the all computers, printers, and the internet network infrastructure. We will be equipping our library with library quality shelving so that all our resources will be available and providing a microfiche/film printer to enable our researchers to make copies of our fiche resources. Our education room will contain a ceiling mounted data projector, screen and student friendly furniture!. Our application to the lottery will be in the order of £20,000  to £30,000. 

Exciting times. We will keep you abreast of developments!


 

LFHHS Fylde Branch is 30 years old

From Olive Cookson

I am extending an invitation to everyone to come and join with us on this special meeting:-

This will be held on Wednesday 12th February and we welcome Dr Alan Crosby to tell us about Magistrates and Malefactors - Crime in 17th Century Lancashire.

We meet in the Church Hall of St Martin and St Hilda, Fleetwood Road Thornton, Carleton, Poulton.  (next to Castle Gardens pub) at 7.30 and the invitation is extended to everyone in the Society to celebrate this occasion.  We are extremely lucky that we still have 3 of the original Committee members still attending meeting regularly and their experience is extremely useful to us.  We owe them a debt for setting up the branch and we must honour this by continuing to keep the branch continuing.

If you do not attend regularly it would help if we could have an idea of attendance number and an email to me would help please.  The postcode is FY6 7NL for Sat nav users.

Olive

[email protected]

LFHHS Chorley Branch are running their Intermediate Family History Course - Next Steps  starting on the 7th February 2014.

A 10 week course designed to help to put some meat on the bones of your Family History and shows you sources and techniques to break through the 1837 barrier!!!

The course is held at Charnock Richard Scout and Guide Headquarters, Chorley each Friday for 10 weeks and starts at 7.30pm.

The cost is £35 which includes all handouts and tea and biscuits!!!

For further information or to book a place on the course contact course leader Pauliine Chapman on 01257 453087.

Happy New Year everyone!!!