Newspapers.com are giving free access to newspapers until Monday 20th February. Go to the following link for more information click here If you have ancestors who have moved to Australia, New Zealand, UK, Panama or USA, take a look. You never know what you may find! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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The next meeting of the Caribbean Family HIstory Group is on Saturday 25th February 2023 at 14.00 hrs (GMT) Our February meeting will extend the ‘beginner’s’ topic of our January meeting by touching on talking to relatives wherever they are, and how the stories and heritage they hold in their memory banks can help us make connections
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This month’s meeting is tomorrow Saturday 28th January at 14.00hrs GMT and will be available via Zoom. We will be exploring the 5 Step Process of Research and Essential Organisation. We hope to pass on some research tips and techniques that you can use again and again when researching your ancestors. First time attendees will
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This month’s meeting is on Saturday 28th January at 14.00hrs GMT and will be available via Zoom. We will be exploring the 5 Step Process of Research and Essential Organisation. We hope to pass on some research tips and techniques that you can use again and again when researching your ancestors. First time attendees will
Every year ‘Who Do Yo Think You Are’ magazine arranges a Transcription day when individuals can volunteer for a day to transcribe records. As family history researchers, we all benefit from online records and this is our chance to help. You can choose from a number of projects including Family Search. This year the day
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Did you know that recently almost 17,000 West Indies Regiment records have gone online at Find My Past. These are mainly records from WW1. If you believe your ancestor may have served in the regiment, take a look at Find My Past. The Caribbean Family History Group has its own Military Expert so if you
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* The UK National Archives offer a number of online talks including one on 14th January on how to navigate their online Discovery Catalogue . More information on talks available can be found at this link. Always register in advance for the talks. *Eventbrite are offering a number of Black History talks by Paul Crooks
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Just to confirm our next meeting will be on Saturday 28th January 2023 at 14.00hrs (GMT) via Zoom. We will be discussing the 5 steps to family history research. Please join us , you may learn some new techniques in finding that elusive ancestor! Book your place by email this address. Members free of charge,
The Society of Genealogists have released their programme of events for January which can be found in the link that follows. The group have now secured new premises in London and are searching for Trustees to join the board so if you have a passion for family history and might be interested in this role,
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In October, as part of our research sessions on tracing your ancestors back to the period of slavery, one of our senior researchers, Steve Porter gave a detailed talk on tracing back to this period in time. This is the first part of his talk which gives detailed information including documents, on how he traced
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