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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Genealogy in Early British and Irish Censuses 1086 - 1841 with Dr Colin Chapman

« on: Wednesday 05 March 25 14:13 GMT (UK) »

A Zoom Talk hosted by North West Kent FHS on 12 June 2025 7.30pm

https://nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overview/all-upcoming-meetings/zoom-talks/zoom-talk-genealogy-in-early-british-and-irish-censuses-1086-1841

Log in from 7.15pm to enjoy chat with other attendees before the talk starts.

All Zoom Talks, Workshops and Discussion Groups are North West Kent FHS members-only events.

But Society membership only costs £10 a year (£12 joint members). https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/membership/our-membership/#options

See all our events here: https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overview/all-upcoming-meetings

For Sale / Wanted / Events / Zoom: Using a Research Methodology for Family History with Phil Isherwood 8 May

« on: Wednesday 05 March 25 14:03 GMT (UK) »

Thursday 8 May 7.30pm
The sources we rely on for our family histories provide information, but the analysis of that information and formulation into proof requires a structured method. Currently there is little guidance on this for beginning and intermediate family historians, especially in the UK.

This talk will discuss methodologies, what they are and why they are useful. It will introduce an effective, easy-to-follow research methodology and show how it can be used to successfully solve complex cases.

What will people learn?

What a research methodology is
Why it’s important
Six Steps to solving difficult genealogy problems
How to use the Six Steps to be more successful in your research
Phil Isherwood is a family history speaker and writer. He has worked in the software industry for over 30 years and brings a passion for best-practice methods and innovative technology to his genealogical research.

Phil is a contributor to Family Tree magazine, a Family History Advisor for Oxfordshire Family History Society and co-founder of Pro-Am Genies, a networking group for professional and aspiring pro genealogists.

Please log in from 7.15pm for 7.30pm and enjoy chat with other participants before the talk starts. The talk will end by 9.30pm

To Get the Zoom Link

Any North West Kent Family History Society Member who would like to receive the Zoom link for this talk needs to submit their name, email address and membership number via https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/?location=1#Contact stating "Please send me the Zoom links" . Then you will automatically be emailed monthly with the Zoom links for all the Zoom events during that month. You can then attend any Zoom event that you wish to without any booking.

All Zoom Talks, Workshops and Discussion Groups are North West Kent Family History Society members-only events.

But Society membership only costs £10 a year (£12 joint members). https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/membership/our-membership/#options

See all our events here: https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overview/all-upcoming-meetings

For Sale / Wanted / Events / Hidden Secrets of the 1939 Register

« on: Friday 31 January 25 15:17 GMT (UK) »

The 1939 Register is often described as an extra census for England and Wales, but it's much more.

Although assembled in 1939, the Government continuously updated it with changes in names, deaths, and other key details until about 1990. Some updates are visible, while others are hidden in annotations and codes next to entries. This presentation will show how to decode these markings, offering deeper insights.

Learn how to search the register and uncover its hidden secrets to enhance your family history research.

Linda Hammond is a professional genealogist who has been active in genealogy for over 35 years as both a researcher and a lecturer. She is a tutor at the University of Strathclyde and, in addition to her teaching role, Linda frequently speaks at conferences and family history fairs, where she shares her knowledge and expertise.

Please log in from 7.15pm and enjoy chat with other participants before the talk starts.

The talk will be recorded for the benefit of members not available that evening or in different time zones and will be available in the Members Only Area of the website for 2 weeks only. You need to log in and then go to this screen https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/resources/all-other/zoom-talk-videos

To Get the Zoom Link

Any society member who would like to receive the Zoom link for this talk needs to submit their name, email address and membership number via https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/?location=1#Contact stating "Please send me the Zoom links" . Then you will automatically be emailed monthly with the Zoom links for all the Zoom events during that month. You can then attend any Zoom event that you wish to without any booking.

All Zoom Talks, Workshops and Discussion Groups are members-only events.

But Society membership only costs £10 a year (£12 joint members). https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/membership/our-membership/#options

For Sale / Wanted / Events / Zoom Talk:Tracing Your House History with Gill Blanchard on 13 March 2025 7.30pm

« on: Thursday 16 January 25 16:41 GMT (UK) »

A North West Kent FHS event.

Discover the main resources to trace the history of your own home in England and Wales and where your ancestors lived in this talk by Gill Blanchard, a leading house historian and the author of ‘Tracing Your House History’ (Pen and Sword Books).

Discover where to find records locally, nationally, and online. Find out which sources to use to place a building in time and place, uncover who lived in it, what else it was used for and when it was built.

Resources focused on in this talk will include census returns, tithe and enclosure maps, deeds, the inland revenue valuation survey and national farm survey, newspapers, and directories.

Gill has designed and run numerous family history and house history courses from beginners to post-graduate level and given talks on a wide range of related topics locally, nationally, and online. These include for record offices, major national family history shows, the Society of Genealogists; family history and local history societies in the UK, Australia, and Canada; and her own online programme of courses on tracing a House History and Writing Your Family History.

Please log in from 7.15pm GMT and enjoy chat with other participants before the talk starts.

The talk will be recorded for the benefit of North West Kent FHS members not available that evening or in different time zones and will be available in the Members Only Area of the website for 2 weeks only. You need to log in and then go to this screen https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/resources/all-other/zoom-talk-videos

To Get the Zoom Link

Any society member who would like to receive the Zoom link for this talk needs to submit their name, email address and membership number via https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/?location=1#Contact stating "Please send me the Zoom links" .

This is a North West Kent FHS members-only event.

But Society membership only costs £10 a year (£12 joint members). https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/membership/our-membership/#options

The Lighter Side / Has anyone made contact with "lost" but still living family members?

« on: Thursday 09 January 25 15:16 GMT (UK) »

Here is a letter I used, with names removed, in case it is helpful.
I only knew this lady's address so I could not use online methods anyway.
I chose to head the letter with my postal address and my email address but not give my phone number.
I did not want to bombard her with information, but I did want to give enough to show that I was not a scammer or ID thief of any kind.

Dear M

We don’t know each other and you have probably never heard of me, but I think I am your first cousin, once removed.

I believe (unless there is a coincidence of names) that you are the daughter of W and M xxx (nee xxx). I am the granddaughter of M xx (W’s oldest sister, known as M).

I know very little about my great grandfather (your grandfather) George S born circa 1875; I do have one photo of him, given to me by my grandmother, which I enclose. It was taken in an artist’s studio about 100 years ago. I also enclose a photo which I think may be your own father as a young man. I have originals of both photos.

If you are interested in exchanging information and old family photos I would love to hear from you. If you use the internet please email me. I have a few other photos which might interest you and would be very keen to see copies of any of yours, or other family memorabilia.

I hope you don’t mind me contacting you out of the blue. If you are not interested in pursuing the connection there is no need to post anything back to me.

For Sale / Wanted / Events / Zoom Talk: Breach of Promise to Marry-the Real Miss Havishams 13 Feb 2025 7.30pm

« on: Thursday 09 January 25 12:11 GMT (UK) »

With Speaker Denise Bates

The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dress bought, the wedding tour planned, the wedding guests invited. The day came but not the bridegroom...
However, the real Miss Havishams didn't mope in faded wedding finery - they hired lawyers and struck the first 'no win, no fee' deals to sue for breach of promise.

From the 1790s right up to the 1960s, jilted women (and sometimes rejected male suitors) employed a range of tactics to bring false lovers to book. Denise Bates' book uncovers over 1,000 forgotten cases of women who found very different endings to their fictional counterpart.

Mary Elizabeth Smith forged evidence of a courtship to entrap an Earl
Catherine Kempshall shot the man who denied their engagement
Gladys Knowles was awarded a record £10,000 damages by a jury in 1890
Daisy Mons discreetly negotiated a £50,000 settlement from a Lord
Based on original research, this social history of breach of promise shows that when men behaved badly, hell had no fury like a woman scorned.

Breach of Promise to Marry investigates the social and cultural history of broken engagements between 1780-1970 and why the law allowed the person who had been jilted to claim damages from the person who had broken the engagement.

Denise has written a book based on her original research in contemporary newspapers and literature, to discover who were the real Miss Havishams, why they found different endings to their fictional counterparts and what their experiences reveal about social attitudes to broken engagements.

https://www.denisebates.co.uk/breach.html

Please log in from 7.15pm and enjoy chat with other participants before the talk starts.

This talk will not be recorded.

To Get the Zoom Link

Any society member who would like to receive the Zoom link for this talk needs to submit their name, email address and membership number via https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/?location=1#Contact stating "Please send me the Zoom links" . Then you will automatically be emailed monthly with the Zoom links for all the Zoom events during that month. You can then attend any Zoom event that you wish to without any booking.

This Zoom Talk is a North West Kent members-only event.

But Society membership only costs £10 a year (£12 joint members). https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/membership/our-membership/#options

See all our events here: https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overview/all-upcoming-meetings

For Sale / Wanted / Events / Zoom Talk: All Drawn By Horses with Ian Waller 7.30pm Tonight 9 Jan 2025

« on: Thursday 09 January 25 12:02 GMT (UK) »

A huge variety of carriages, omnibuses, trade vehicles, carts and wagons existed and we look at the regional differences, the types of transport and the horses which pulled them.

Ian is a retired professional genealogist with considerable experience in English research.

The talk will be recorded for the benefit of North West Kent FHS members not available or in different time zones and will be available in the Members Only Area of the website for 2 weeks only. You need to log in and then go to this screen https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/resources/all-other/zoom-talk-videos

To Get the Zoom Link

Any society member who would like to receive the Zoom link for this talk needs to submit their name, email address and membership number via https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/?location=1#Contact stating "Please send me the Zoom links" . Then you will automatically be emailed monthly with the Zoom links for all the Zoom events during that month. You can then attend any Zoom event that you wish to without any booking.

It's a North West Kent FHS members-only event.

But Society membership only costs £10 a year (£12 joint members). https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/membership/our-membership/#options

The Common Room / Ancestry subscription discounts

« on: Thursday 09 January 25 11:52 GMT (UK) »

Half price annual subscriptions available until 12 Jan 2025. Very worthwhile if you are considering subscribing anyway.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/c/offers/newyears?_gl=1*1fbgipr*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQiA7NO7BhDsARIsADg_hIawDCGL5LmJ2BwO3aCS-ejOToNoZrKhSU66NjQ_9jrfi8Hb2O_l6aUaAi9_EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Family History Beginners Board / Re: Understanding what numbers/abbreviations mean on war records

« on: Thursday 09 January 25 11:47 GMT (UK) »

ACI 470 could be this: The 470th Military Intelligence Brigade is a United States Army Counterintelligence (ACI) unit that covers South America

If not, no need to reply as I see this is an old post and you may have all your answers.