Info: Swindon Local Studies & Family History Collection (Central Library)

[GrahamGirl]

Thanks Lizzie!  I don't know for sure if the great grandparents did formally divorce or just separate, but one of them went onto marry again.

[karen13]

Do you know of any courses that run in Swindon that teaches you genealogy - where to look, how to search records etc?

[Local Studies, Swindon Libraries]

Dear Karen13,
I am so sorry - not sure how we missed this - we do try to ttrack any posts for us ASAP.
Did you ever track down any courses?
We run courses ourselves for the public. Are you in the Swindon area?
If you are still interested, email us at localstudies@swindon.gov.uk
We can add you to our waiting list and see if we can help you out.

Best wishes,
Swindon Collection, Central Library

[Local Studies, Swindon Libraries]

Dear Karen - we have now received your email and will reply to you via that.

[Local Studies, Swindon Libraries]

Just an update to say that our online Flickr gallery of historical images from Swindon and the surrounding part of Wiltshire has now had over a Million views and we are just about to add our 5,000th photograph.

Don't forget: it is all name, date, street and keyword searchable so can be very useful for genealogical research in the area!

Many thanks to those of you from this forum who have been in touch with us since we first posted here. Always a pleasure!

[Local Studies, Swindon Libraries]

Hello!,
It has been over a year since we updated this thread - just to say that, with 7600+ images now online, we are fast approaching 3 Million views on our Swindon history gallery.

Don't forget that we have very carefully tagged the images so you can search by surname, year, street, area, etc. Thanks again to the many, many people who have been in touch with extra information, helped us ID places and people in the pics, date them or contributed their own images.

And remember that we are here to help with any research enquiries relating to the Swindon Borough area:-

Swindon Collection
Central Library
Regent Circus
Swindon SN1 1QG

localstudies@swindon.gov.uk
(01793)463238
www.swindon.gov.uk/swindoncollection