Previous Speakers
NORTHERN GROUP
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Previous Speakers
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NORTHERN GROUP
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| Speaker |
Date |
Subject |
| Audrey Collins | 7th Jan 2015 | Discovery - The National Archives Catalogue The key to over 1000 years of history |
| Elizabeth Knight | 3rd Dec 2014 | The History of Lace Making in the north Bucks area |
| Members | 5th Nov 2014 | Members' Evening Member's own research |
| Alan Ruston | 1st Oct 2014 | Non-Conformity The history of the various denominations since their foundation in the 17th century |
| Richard Ratcliffe | 3rd Sep 2014 | What's in The Parish Chest The records to be found in the Parish Chest, from the 15th to the early 20th century |
| John Hanson | 6th Aug 2014 | The New FamilySearch Website The latest changes, and how to get the best from them |
| Prof. Rebecca Probert | 2nd Jul 2014 | Tracing Marriages Legal requirements and actual practice, 1700 -1900 |
| Kathy Chater | 4th Jun 2014 | Turning Your Tree Into a Tale Ways to present your research in an interesting way |
| Julian Hunt | 7th May 2014 | A E Housman, A Shropshire Lad The family history of the poet A E Housman |
| Brian Horridge | 2nd Apr 2014 | Members' Evening Bucks FHS Digital Resources |
| Ian Waller | 5th Mar 2014 | Debts, Debtors and Bankrupts Tracing records of ancestors living beyond their means |
| Bruce Smith | 5th Feb 2014 | Local Drove Roads The lives of drovers taking livestock to market before railways |
| Michael Kushner | 8th Jan 2014 | A Journey to Station X The Bletchley Park Story |
| Edna Dickenson | 4th Dec 2013 | Wartime Christmas Demonstration of how women coped in the kitched during WW2 |
| Members | 2nd Nov 2013 | Members' Evening A snippet from your family history? |
| Judy Davies | 2nd Oct 2013 | Pressed or Volunteer? Tracing the life of John White the Boatswain |
| Dave Foster | 4th Sep 2013 | Beginners' Family History |
| Sue Donelly | 7th Aug 2013 | Mapping Rich and Poor Charles Booth's enquiry into London life and labour |
| Ian Waller | 3rd Jul 2013 | 20th Century Army Records |
| Louise Taylor | 5th Jun 2013 | Adoption and Fostering Entry removed at speaker's request |
| Dr Gillian Gear | 1st May 2013 | Saving Dickens' Children Certified Industrial Schools |
| Dave Annal | 3rd Apr 2013 | Death
and Taxes Understanding the death duty registers |
| Members | 6th Mar 2013 | Members' Evening |
| Peter Maggs | 6th Feb 2013 | Smethurst's Luck The story of Dr Thomas Smethurst |
| Tom Doig | 9th Jan 2013 | Births and Baptisms |
| Phil Morris | 5th Dec 2012 | Fire Marks and Insurance Tokens and Christmas nibbles |
| Mermbers | 7th Nov 2012 | Members' Evening Members told their ancester's stories with an occupational theme |
| Meryl Catty and Audrey Gillett | 3rd Oct 2012 | Leave
No Stone Unturned Looking for those elusive ancesters |
| Alan Ruston | 5th Sep 2012 | Was
Your Ancester a Civil Servant? Looking at the records to search |
| Louise Taylor | 1st Aug 2012 | This talk was based on a study of sixteen women from Stepney in East London, each of whom was admitted to Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum - Colney Hatch, in the perion 1877 to 1889 |
| Peter Barratt | 4th Jul 2012 | Peter gave a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother's fight to vote 100 years ago |
| Trevor Owens | 6th Jun 2012 | Trade
Tokens What they can tell us about a local economy |
| Ian Waller | 2nd May 2012 | What is available? |
| Judy Davies | 4th Apr 2012 | Judy's quest to uncover the events in the life of her convict ancester who was from Bedfordshire |
| Members | 7th Mar 2012 | Members shared information, tips, and resources |
| Julian Hunt | 1st Feb 2012 | Coaching Inns of Bucks |
| Greg Davies | 11th Jan 2012 | A One Name Study of the Village of Nash |
| Frank Banwell | 7th Dec 2011 | Christmas Party and Old Films |
| Members | 2nd Nov 2011 | Members recounted their ancester's stories |
| Joy & Geoff Dawe | 5th Oct 2011 | Living the Poor Life The two-way correspondence between the Poor Law Commission & Newport Pagnell workhouse |
| Meryl Catty | 7th Sep 2011 | The
Breadwinner Occupations - sources for trades and occupations with case histories |
| Richard Harvey | 3rd Aug 2011 | Bribery
and Corruption The unreformed electoral system and its records |
| Tom Doig | 6th Jul 2011 | Village Friendly Societies Before the welfare state |
| Kathy Chater | 1st Jun 2011 | Coroner's
Inquests The Coroner's job explained |
| Peter Bailey | 4th May 2011 | British
India and Indian Records How to trace your Indian links and the Families in British India Society |
| Jane Burrell | 6th Apr 2011 | Caring For Your Heirlooms How to preserve your precious family archives |
| Maurice Clarke | 2nd Mar 2011 | The Heir Hunters Association The work of tracing missing heirs to unclaimed legacies |
| Julian Hunt | 2nd Feb 2011 | |
| Members | 5th Jan 2011 | Members brought their own resources to share |
| Michael Gandy | 1st Dec 2010 |
Christmas Party, and Seeing
It Through Their Songs
This
talk looked at music hall songs of the 1890s and early 1900s to show us
what our grandparents thought about their lives |
| Members | 3rd Nov 2010 | Having learnt how to date and identify photographs earlier this year, members brought in their own photographs |
| Laura Cotton | 6th Oct 2010 | For those of us who missed Laura's talk in June 2006, a welcome return. An introduction to old handwriting, and then we were each asked to test our skills at reading old documents |
| Geof Lee | 1st Sep 2010 | An outline of their origin and arrival in Britain; History of the laws and persecution; Description of most aspects of their life, including homes, food, medicine, work, music, marriage and death; How to research gypsy family history |
| Ian Currie | 4th Aug 2010 | Can you rely on seaweed or pine cones? Is ‘Red Sky at Night’ a shepherd’s delight? Does April have the face of a monk and the claws of a cat? |
| Liz Carter | 7th Jul 2010 | A Victorian widow in her ‘weeds’ recalled her husband’s funeral and described what it was like to be a widow in 1890 |
| Tom Doig | 2nd Jun 2010 | How to date and identify your old photographs |
| Audrey Gillett & Meryl Catty | 5th May 2010 | A dramatic reconstruction of the 1851 census |
| Anne Pegg | 7th Apr 2010 | Maps, tithe documents and terriers are some of the lesser known documents but can throw interesting light on the daily lives of our ancestors. Who knows, you might find a personal signature or mark or even details of their turnip crop! Some background information on the history and varied illustrations |
| Richard Heaton | 3rd Mar 2010 |
An
insight into what resources are available on-line, pre-research
information required, and the strategy for searching newspapers that
are not on-line. A selection of the many newspapers dating from
the 1750's to the 1870's that Richard has collected
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| Ian Waller | 3rd Feb 2010 |
Many
families will find domestic servants, both male and female within their
ancestry. This talk looked at their lives and their appearance in
records
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| 6th Jan 2010 | Meeting cancelled due to bad weather | |
| Brian Horridge | 2nd Dec 2009 | Christmas Party And a talk by Brian Horridge on the Society's Church Finder project |
| John T Smith | 4th Nov 2009 | With the surname Smith you would be worried if you were trying to trace a grandfather who had "abandoned" his family.... |
| Wendy Anderson | 7th Oct 2009 |
A useful guide on
sources for Scottish ancestry
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| 16th Sep 2009 | Evening visit to Sulgrave Manor | |
| John Hanson | 2nd Sep 2009 |
How to get the most out
of it
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| John Wooley | 5th Aug 2009 |
John was a local Bobby
who helped capture the perpetrators of this terrible crime
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| Ian Waller | 1st Jul 2009 |
A strategy for modern
research
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| Tom Doig | 3rd June 2009 |
- and how to avoid
being hag-ridden
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| Nigel Lutt | 6th May 2009 | |
| Jennifer Cooper | 1st Apr 2009 | A talk on the MKHA |
| John Smith | 4th Mar 2009 |
A well illustrated talk
highlighting WW1 sources available.
John is chaiman of the Cheddington History Society |
| 4th Feb 2009 | Meeting Cancelled | |
| Ian Waller | 7th Jan 2009 |
A look at how marriage
problems affected our ancestors
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| Thea Young | 3rd Dec 2008 |
Christmas party
and a talk on Sulgrave
Manor
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| Bill Duperouzel | 5th Nov 2008 |
Janet and Bill
Duperouzel's story
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| Geof Lee | 1st Oct 2008 |
Unfortunately, samples
weren't available!
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| Stuart King | 3rd Sep 2008 | A talk by Stuart King |
| Jennifer Cooper | 6th Aug 2008 | A talk by Jennifer Cooper |
| Anne Pegg | 2nd Jul 2008 |
A one-name study of the
Twentyman family
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| Greg Davies | 4th Jun 2008 |
Using Excel for family history
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| Runnells Davis | 7th May 2008 |
Another fascinating
talk about life on the canals
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| Members | 2nd Apr 2008 | Interesting ways to record and display your research. |
| Robin Brown | 5th Mar 2008 |
A talk with slides of old
Bletchley and places nearby
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| Derek and Pam Ayshford |
6th Feb 2008 | The Men Who Served in Nelson's Navy |
| Members | 2nd Jan 2008 |
Members talk about
their own ancestors
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| Alan Simpson | 7th Nov 2007 |
How to create your own
website
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| Pamela Birch | 3rd Oct 2007 |
How to look after our
valuable documents
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| Runnells Davis | 5th Sep 2007 |
A talk describing the
lives of canal people
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| Members | 1st Aug 2007 |
Members talking about
their research
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| Marion Maule | 4th Jul 2007 | The
Bedfordshire Map Sampler Another entertaining talk by Marion Maule |
| Tova Irving (William Cowley) |
6th Jun 2007 | The
History of Parchment Making A talk by Tova Irving, BSc, member of the Society of Leather Technologists and Chemists |
| Derek Ayshford and Keith Williams | 2nd May 2007 | Computer
Group Evening A presentation on the BFHS School Log Book Project |
| Members | 4th Apr 2007 | Annual
Meeting and Members' Queries Members discuss family history queries |
| Dr. Richard Smart | 7th Mar 2007 |
The
National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions being run by DeMontfort
University
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| Ted Legg | 7th Feb 2007 | Clockmakers of Bucks A fascinating talk on a local trade |
| Greg Davies | 3rd Jan 2007 | Using Your Computer Getting to grips with Word - It is not just for writing letters! |
| Members | 15th Nov 2006 | Computer
Group Evening Visit to Bletchley College |
| Tom Doig | 1st Nov 2006 | Folk Cures
& Remedies How our ancestors dealt with disease and illness |
| Marion Maule | 4th Oct 2006 | Weird
& Wonderful Weddings Wedding customs and traditions from around the world |
| Members | 20th Sep 2006 | Computer
Group Evening Member's software on display |
| Wendy Anderson | 6th Sep 2006 | Resources
in London London resources available to family historians |
| Members | 2nd Aug 2006 |
Members talking about
their research
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| Greg Davies | 19th Jul 2006 | Computer
Group Evening Greg Davies gave another talk about using computers |
| Ruth Meardon | 5th Jul 2006 |
Examples of the many sources available in your local library
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| Laura Robertson | 7th Jun 2006 | Old
Handwriting Workshop Old wills, manorial rolls, etc. |
| Brian Horridge | 17th May 2006 | Computer
Group Evening A talk on the new version of Family Historian |
| Sandra Barker | 3rd May 2006 | Straw
Plait Talk & Workshop Straw plait making from an expert |
| Rex Watson | 5th April 2006 | Annual
Meeting and Talk on DNA An explanation of the role of DNA in family history |
| Greg Davies | 15th Mar 2006 | Computer
Group Evening Nash – a one place study and the use of IT |
| Robert Ayres | 1st Mar 2006 | Stony
Stratford Past An interesting look at Stony Stratford's history by a local author |
| Arnold Francklow | 1st Feb 2006 | Railways
to Royalty The story of an Anglo-German family |
| Members | 18th Jan 2006 | Computer
Group Evening Member's software on display |
| Julian Hunt | 4th Jan 2006 | Wills
and Their Usefulness in Family History Wills from a family history perspective |
| Stuart Boreham | 2nd Nov 2005 | Bucks
People Presenting The Bucks People Database |
| Elizabeth Knight | 5th Oct 2005 | The
Medical Men of Olney A history of medical practice with relevance to Olney |
| Wendy Anderson | 7th Sep 2005 | Riots,
Strikes & Arson Attacks Agricultural uprisings |
| Members | 6th Jul 2005 | Memorabilia
Evening Members talking about their research |
| Neil Rees | 1st Jun 2005 | Czechs
and Chequers Story of the Czech Government Exile in Bucks |
| Sandra Barker | 4th May 2005 | The
Wonderful World of Willow A demonstration of willow basket making |
| Julian Hunt | 2nd Mar 2005 | Civil
War in Bucks A talk on the recent exhibition in Aylesbury Museum |
| Members | 2nd Feb 2005 | Memorabilia
Evening Members talking about their research |
| Elizabeth Knight | 5th Jan 2005 | History
of Lacemaking History of lacemaking in North Bucks |