Family History
About the Group:
An opportunity to share advice about researching into your family history and discuss the resources used and results. We assist each other and demonstrate how to use family history websites.
This Family History Group has 12 active members with attendance of 6-8 members each month. Most of us now have a basic or more comprehensive family trees.This makes our meetings more about finding some social history in order to put some flesh on to our ancestors.This involves their occupations, where they came from and settled, and what was happening at the time.
Each month a Member gives a talk concerning some event or an account of where their ancestors came from and how they found that information. Was it from a website, library or relatives? We have had other talks on how to find a will and probate, old maps, Census, 1939 Register, and free websites.
When and where?
Monthly in each others' homes. Third Tuesday each month 2pm - 4pm
Cost?
Materials
U3A:
Edenbridge
Contact:
Fiona Lewis
Family History websites
Societies
- Society of Genealogists Family History. Membership £80 pa
- Kent Family History Society Almost every county has one
- Who do you think you are Magazines on how to start, essential websites, tips etc
First World War
- Lives of the First World War Imperial War Museum. Build up a picture of the 8 million who served their country
Resources
- My History Resources for Family History
- Advice from a real researcher – Family Tree Resources
Local History
- Surrey History Centre
- Kent History Centre History websites are available for most counties
Researching Events and Places
- Use Google to look up significant events.For example, Creswell Colliery Pit Disaster
- Find out more about how your ancestors lived and what they did. Bring your family history to life
- Edenbridge Leather Making or Edenbridge Trail
- University College London Research on names in Great Britain Find out about how your family names are geographically spread in GB over time.
- Britain from Above Aerial Photographs of GB from 1919 to 1953. You can help them to identify buildings in areas you know.