Our July meeting will be on Saturday 25th July at 14.00BST via Zoom. Topics to be covered as follows: We will be re-visiting our topic from last month ‘Talking to Elders’ Were you successful in gaining family tree information? What strategies did you use? Please share your experiences. One of the ways we learn new […]
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I came across this article on the BBC which was an interesting read. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/3k9u8lh178/Searching_for_my_slave_roots The poet and author Malik Al Nasir traced his roots from Liverpool and discovered links with families in Grenada and Guyana. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Our July meeting will be on Saturday 25th July at 14.00BST via Zoom. Topics to be covered as follows: We will be re-visiting our topic from last month ‘Talking to Elders’ Were you successful in gaining family tree information? What strategies did you use? Please share your experiences. One of the ways we learn new
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The Endangered Archives programme facilitates the digitisation of documents from around the world that are in danger following hurricanes, floods , earthquakes. This includes a number of the Caribbean Islands. This work will greatly assist us in our searches for historical documents on our family history quest. The Barbadian Newspaper has recently been digitised. Read
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The BBC2 series ‘ A House Through Time’ with David Olusoga is currently being repeated. This series tells the story of those who lived in a house in Bristol . Episode 1 starts in the 18th Century and includes the story of seafaring families who occupied the house. A variety of resources were used to
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Thank you for joining us at our meeting last Saturday. We would like to welcome our new visitors from overseas and the UK as well as our current members. Our main topic following our AGM was ‘Talking to Elders’ . I think we would all agree, how important it is to talk to elders now.
A couple of weeks ago Guy Grannum, who has been writing and speaking about Caribbean Family History for 25 years, gave an interesting talk in conjunction with the National Archives. You can listen to Guy’s talk ‘Caribbean Connections’ here: https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/whats-on-line-caribbean-connections/
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Please join us at our meeting tomorrow Saturday 27th June 2020 at 14.00 hrs BST. We will firstly have our AGM and this will be followed by a discussion on: ‘Identifying, seeking and Talking to Elders – Now!’ Membership For those whose membership is due, please pay by bank transfer. We generally charge £5 per
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Are you researching any family of the names listed below? If so please email us on cfhg.sol.birm@gmail.com and let our members know. We would be pleased to hear from anyone researching the same families in order to exchange information and knowledge. Island Parish/town Surnames
Do let us know if you will be able to join us this Saturday for our next meeting – due to start with our AGM. Next Meeting incl AGM – Saturday 27th JUNE, 2020 at 2pm (14.00HRS BST)on Zoom. Once the business of the AGM is completed we are looking to follow it by a focus
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