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Family History Surgery at Lancashire Archives

22/6/2017

Friday 7th July
Café Archive
with
Family History Surgery
at
Lancashire Archives, Bow Lane, Preston,
PR1 2RE

Join us for a cup of tea or coffee, a piece of cake or a sausage roll between 10.30am and 12.30pm

Experts will be on hand to help with your family history queries.

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Brothers in Arms - A special multimedia event

18/6/2017

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Featuring film, music, drama, images and readings BROTHERS IN ARMS tells the amazing story of the Chavasse twins, Noel and Christopher.

These highly decorated soldiers served with great distinction in the trenches of World War One. Their lives tell an inspiring story of courage, service, sacrifice and faith lived out under fire.

Saturday 14th October 2017 at 2.30pm

Venue: Whitechapel Village Hall, Church Lane, Whitechapel, PR3 2EP

The performance will be followed by cheese & wine

Tickets £10 available from: 01772 864289 and 01995 640504

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LFHHS Chorley Branch - June meeting

14/6/2017

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From LFHHS Chorley Branch

LFHHS Chorley Branch would like to invite anyone interested to our next meeting in Chorley Library.

Tuesday 20 June 2017 at 7:30 pm

Our speaker, Gordon Read, will tell us about ‘Emigration from Lancashire’ which he has researched over 30 years, using sources from both sides of the Atlantic.
A warm welcome awaits everyone, admission is free, but donations from non-members are always very much appreciated.

A raffle will be held during the evening, and refreshments will be available for 50p.

If you are interested in family history, come and meet branch members, and find out what membership of the LFHHS offers.

Application forms to join the Society will be available, please just ask.

The web-site, for further details of our branch is www.lfhhschorleybranch.com

For opening times of the Family History Research Centre in Astley Hall Farmhouse please see www.cfhrc.com

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LFHHS Preston Branch Workshops

14/6/2017

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From LFHHS Preston Branch

Preston Family History Branch will be holding ‘workshops’ at Leyland Museum, Church Road, from 10.30 - 12.30pm on Saturday, 24th June 2017 and at the Kingsfold Methodist Hall, Padway, Penwortham, PR1 9EJ on Wednesday, 28th June, from 7.30pm - 9.00pm

Bring along your stumbling blocks, hic-cups and brickwalls, along with relevant papers, and we’ll see if we can unravel your family’s history.

Entry is free to both events.

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LFHHS Chorley Family History Research Centre launches its Resources Catalogue.

2/6/2017

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From LFHHS Chorley Family History Research Centre

After a lot of hard work by a dedicated team of volunteers, LFHHS Chorley Family History Research Centre has launched its Resources Catalogue detailing all the Books, Microfiche and Parish Records that are held in the Research Centre Library.

Resource Librarian Judith Hilton said ‘This is the first time we have had fully searchable indexes to all our resources available both on our website and in our Research Centre.’

The catalogue can be accessed on the website at http://www.cfhrc.com/resources-catalogues.html or at the centre both digitally and on hard copy.

Resource Centre Manager Sheila Gibbons praised the work done by Judith and her team saying ‘It is wonderful that we can now easily share our large collection of books, microfiche and Parish Records with our visitors and researchers. It’s great news that the catalogue is also available on our website to all Family Historians whether members of Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society or not’

The Resources can be accessed by visiting the Research Centre at Astley Hall Farmhouse, Hallgate, Astley Village, Chorley, PR7 1XA

Opening Times are:-
Monday       10.00am to 4.00pm
Wednesday 10.00am to 4.00pm
Friday          10.00am to 4.00pm
2nd and 3rd Saturday      12.00am to 4.00pm

To contact the Research Centre telephone    01257 231600 (When open)
01257 262028 (when closed)

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FFHS Children's Competition - Open Now!

2/6/2017

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From the Federation of Family History Societies

FFHS Children's Competition - Open Now!

Do you have children or grandchildren?

We don’t need convincing that family history is fun and worthwhile, but how do we encourage young people to develop an interest? We may have the answer, with our My Family Tree competition.

Launched successfully last year, FFHS is running the competition again in 2017 for 5-16 year olds in the UK. The competition will encourage them to use the FFHS My Family Tree booklet to start their research adventure. Young people, with the help of family and friends, fill in some or all of the booklet to create their own family tree. They can then send what they've done to FFHS, explaining what they enjoyed most. The winner will receive a family day out at Living History Museum and there are prizes for the runners up too.

See the FFHS website at www.ffhs.org.uk/ezine/competition-2017.php for the details of how to enter.

Open now, the competition closes on Thursday 13th July 2017.

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Family History Surgery at Lancashire Archives

Brothers in Arms - A special multimedia event

LFHHS Chorley Branch - June meeting

LFHHS Preston Branch Workshops

LFHHS Chorley Family History Research Centre launches its Resources Catalogue.

FFHS Children's Competition - Open Now!

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