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Notice Board
NEWS FROM YOUR CHAIRMAN
Christine Dundas
To: Lancaster & Morecambe branch members
Dear All, Forthcoming Meetings
Our meeting this week is on Thursday, 17th February and is an
evening one at Torrisholme.
We will be welcoming back Lynn Wilman and Stephanie Lawton
for the fourth of their wonderful
'Lakeland Inscribed' slide presentations, starting at 7.45 p.m. The
doors will be open from 7.00 p.m.
so do come along, collect a 2010 programme and the latest
Newsletter,
and have a cuppa and a chat about your research with other members.
We have some new books and a few new disks in our library. We hope
you come and join us.
We managed to hold our A.G.M. on 21st January after all,
despite the threat of further snow and ice.
I am pleased to say that attendance was up on last year and we
elected two new people onto the Committee.
Your committee members for 2010 are as follows.
Chairman Christine Dundas
Librarian / Minute Secretary Janet Dalby
Assistant Librarian Susan Gledhill
Executive Rep /Secretary Sheila Court
Treasurer Philip Procter
Projects, Publicity & Computers Peter Joslin
Newsletter & badges Cath Salmon
Programme Secretary Linda Wagner
Committee Members Diedre Taylor
Catering Josie Briggs/Beryl Bradshaw
I would like to thank everyone for giving their time to serve on the
Committee and also our regular helpers
at the door, signing people in, organising the raffle and the other
necessary tasks that they perform,
Phyl Brian and Ruth Taylor.
We were unable to find anyone willing to take on the task of
Education Officer so this post remains open.
If anyone would like to take it on, please contact me or a member of
the Committee.
Programme for 2010
We have a very exciting programme of events organised for you this
year.
Our regular evening meetings continue in their usual format of
get-together and presentation.
Our afternoon events are still extremely popular and will continue
with more interesting themes.
There will be a Family History Awareness Weekend at St
John’s Church, Lancaster,
on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April.
Click for a
brochure
Our branch will also be hosting the annual Society get-together this
year,
which will be a luncheon at the MIDLAND HOTEL Morecambe.
on the 4th of July
Full details of all these events will be available in your next
'Lancashire' journal .
Do keep an eye on our web-site for further details
Click for booking form
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 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 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.
Don’t forget to get in touch with any interesting finds or stories
that you’d like to share with your fellow members,
so they can go in the newsletter.
All the best, and happy researching..
Christine Dundas
Chairman, Lancaster & Morecambe Branch
Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society
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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