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Family History
About the GroupThe Family History Group meets on the third Monday of the month in the Methodist Hall from 2 – 4pm.About 20 members attend each of our sessions in the Methodist Hall on the third Monday of each month. Not always the same 20, as there are about 35 names on my register! What is so brilliant about the group, is that we all have expertise (some more than others!) and that we are willing to share our knowledge and help each other along the way to unearthing our family histories. Our meetings follow a similar format, with a couple of “presentations” given by our members, who have perhaps researched a topic or have a story about their family. We then have a few minutes of business to work out the programme for the next meetings and then we have a general session round the table, where we can share our successes and ask for help when we have come up against a brick wall and don’t know how to progress. I find we can all learn so much from this: talk about a wide-ranging discussion! So far this year we have learnt about “Illegitimacy” and “Fishing in Grimsby.” Not related topics, I hasten to add! We watched a film called “The Lost Battalion” about trying to identify soldiers buried in mass graves during WW1, now at rest in a new cemetery. One of the soldiers had been a footman at Thoresby Hall. Aunt Eliza was not found easily in the 1901 census: that was because she was in Wakefield Prison! And Great Grandmother Leclerq had to go through the Belgian courts to prove that she was a woman and to correct her original birth certificate! To hear about such characters, come and join us in our travels through family history. Clare Franklin May 2012 |
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