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THELMA SIMPSON 1929-2010
Many of our
society members will be saddened to learn of the death of
‘Our Thelma’ For more years than I care to remember Thelma
has been at the forefront of the Lancaster & Morecambe
branch,
she often accompanied me to executive meetings and
AGMs at Preston and I could always rely on
her unstinting
support. Most members will remember her as our branch help
contact and many of
you will have received letters from her
when you needed help from this area of north Lancashire.
Thelma was also a keen member of the Cumbria family history
society and looked forward to there
long week end
Conferences at the Crooklands Hotel. Thelma’s own family
history research meant studying Belgium records as her
fathers name was VAN DE SAND and he had been born in
Belgium.
When Thelma married Bill SIMPSON she became engrossed in his
family tree that included the WOODHOUSE fishing folk of
Morecambe and the Whitehaven area of Cumbria.
Our thoughts are with your son John and your loving daughter
in-law Sandra who helped you so much
in recent years, we do
miss you Thelma. (Peter Joslin Lancaster & Morecambe
Branch Projects) |
We hope you will be pleased with what we have put together for you
this year
and hope you will come along with your friends and family to any of
our events
and let people know about our Society and the benefits of
membership.
We always look forward to welcoming new members and will help them
on the family history trail.
Please do help us with items for our newsletter.
If you have any tales of success, any funny stories you would like
to share,
or any pictures, postcards or photographs, these are the kinds of
things we need,
in order to make our publications interesting. Please do have a look
for anything you could share with us.
Subscription Renewal
Can I also remind you, if you have not already attended to it, that
subscription renewal for 2010 is due now.
You can pay on line or use the renewal sheet from the middle of your
last quarterly magazine.
or pay Philip Procter at the next meeting
Thank you all for your continued support. We look forward to seeing
you soon.
With best wishes,
Christine.
Items of Interest
Anyone researching ancestors up in Shetland should find this
web-site of interest.
Susan Gledhill found what she thinks might be the smallest Family
History Society,
housed in a corner of Tangwick Haa Museum.
It really does look worth a visit if you find yourself visiting the
far north.
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/shetland/tangwickhaa/index.html
Ireland's Historical Mapping Archive has announced "Now FREE TO VIEW
on www.osi.ie ".
This is from the Ordinance Survey of Ireland.
Search Ireland's most comprehensive archive of maps from 1829 –
1913.
Through this website you can view and download this data or place an
order for delivery by post.
This advert appeared in the November issue of BBC History Magazine
Local History Books – Retirement Give-away
After over twenty years of selling essential local history books to
local and family historians,
the owners of The Local History Press are retiring and want to say
'thank you' to all their past customers and contributors by giving
everyone chance to buy their remaining local history books at never
to be repeated prices.
If you are on the lookout for local history books to help with your
research, then take a look now at this web-site, and perhaps you can
bag a bargain:
www.local-history.co.uk/acatalog/index.html
. Do keep a
regular eye on Peter's 'computer genealogy' page on our own branch
web-site at
http://www.lancasterfamilyhistory.org.uk/files/genealogy.htm
for a list of many extremely helpful, (possibly essential?)
web-sites for family historians.
Also his 'notice board' page, for research hints.
You could add it to the 'Favourites' on your computer,
so it will be just a 'click' away whenever you might need it.
Peter's Latest Recommendations for 2010 Are:
The Lancashire on-line Parish Clerk
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/indexp.html
The site has a list of parishes in the county of Lancashire at or
around the end of the 19th century.
It is not a complete list of townships or chapelries.
Where a small Rose symbol is seen alongside the name of a
parish,
a web page is available for that parish.
Where there are
two Rose symbols, this indicates that some
records for that parish
are also available online.
A link without a Rose symbol is an email link to the OPC responsible
for that parish.
For other counties on this free project click on:
http://www.onlineparishclerks.org.uk/
THE PARISH CHEST
http://www.parishchest.com/
Parish Chest sponsors
British Genealogy, a completely FREE
on-line forum and resource website,
so if you have run into a brick wall, pop along to the forum and ask
for some help.
Parish Chest is an Aladdin's Cave bursting with parish registers,
family tree charts,
census records, directories, books and maps, etc.
Just about everything that is needed to help trace your ancestry and
build a family tree.
Direct link to our own:
Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society to help you research
your Lancashire ancestors.
IRELAND 1911 & 1901 CENSUS
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of
Ireland of 1901 and 1911,
which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland,
represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage.
All thirty-two counties for 1911 & 1901 are now available on this site.
We have decided to make the material immediately available,
in the knowledge that the vast majority of our users will be able to
find what they want.
Corrections and improvements will be ongoing,
and we are very grateful to all users who have submitted corrections
to us.
1901 Census material, with all data transcribed, will be
launched between early and mid-2010.
I
am attaching links here that you might like to browse
for help with
your own family ancestors
who died in The Great War.
www.rafmillom.co.uk
as mentioned by Lynne & Stephanie at their last presentations – war
records at Cartmel.
http://cumbrianwarmemorials.blogspot.com/,
entitled "After the Conflict - Cumbrian War Memorials.
Cumbrian Records
If
some members of your family came from Cumbria,
a useful and informative site that you may already be familiar with
is the Cumbrian Manorial Records site
(www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/manorialrecords/
).
It covers Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands,
has a section explaining how to use manorial records for local and
family history,
and is described as follows.
"Part of the Cumbrian Manorial Records Project, a partnership
between Lancaster University,
The National Archives and Cumbria Archive Service, funded by the
Heritage Lottery Fund.
The project aimed to raise awareness and encourage use
of an important but under-used class of local historical evidence,
the records generated by manorial administration. These records shed
vivid light on past local communities,
as manorial courts combined the functions of a local 'parliament',
a small claims court and a land registry,
and their records give rare glimpses of the lives of ordinary men
and women,
particularly in the 15th to 18th centuries."
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