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Despite the publicity we and the media have given to the closure of the Family Records Centre from the end of March 2008, and the departure of the General Register Office from the ground floor of the FRC which has already taken place, many visitors to FRC seem to be unaware of this. Please may we encourage societies to publicise this at meetings and on websites. For more positive news see the items on our website about Colindale and also the London Metropolitan Archives. We have prepared a survey to gain a better understanding of the overall situation concerning archives repositories in England and Wales. There are also questions to help us understand how best to serve our members with regard to archives. We are pleased that completed forms are being received and you can download a form by clicking here. This year we have attended 12 meetings to make our voice heard including meetings with the FRC, LMA and the National Council on Archives. The Federation is also represented at regional level. Finally, may we extend Christmas greetings to you all and best wishes for your researches in the new year.
Maureen Bullows and
Roger Lewry Following the partnership between the FFHS and findmypast.com announced earlier this year, data from the National Burial Index going back to 1538 has been put online at www.findmypast.com Searching NBI data at findmypast.com is free. To view the results, you either need an Explorer subscription or units. To get you started, we’ve arranged a special discount with findmypast.com. To save 15% on an annual Explorer subscription, enter the promotional code FFHS8SUB in the relevant field on the subscription payment page. Or, to save 15% on the cost of units, simply enter the promotional code FFHS8UNITS in the appropriate field. Units and subscriptions can be used to access any of the datasets on the site. Participating societies earn royalties each time their data is accessed and promote their society in their own section of the findmypast website, benefiting from the company’s considerable online and offline marketing investment. At launch, 50 societies had already signed up. Currently findmypast is developing a free indexing tool for the societies with input from FFHS, which will allow image and data capture to be standardised. All family history societies are invited to participate in this ongoing project, which will ultimately link transcriptions and indexes to images and will include censuses and parish records. In the meantime, FamilyHistoryOnline will continue to offer its high quality data at www.familyhistoryonline.net until the Spring 2008. more information about the online partnership visit >
A big thank you to everyone who joined in the bidding to be Practical Family History magazine’s VIP Guest Editor for a Day, in the recently held eBay TopLots auction for charities. A tidy sum of £255 was raised, 80 per cent of which will be donated to PFH’s chosen charity, the Federation of Family History Societies; the remaining 20 per cent goes to the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) to cover its administration costs of organising the auction. The successful bidder will be revealed in the April 2008 issue of PFH, along with a report on how they enjoyed their day at the helm of the UK’s leading genealogy magazine for newcomers to family history. In all, 127 lots were posted on eBay’s TopLots site – offering great days out at museums and places of historical interest, rare experiences and donated artworks and other items – raising a total of almost £30,000 for Britain’s deserving heritage charities and organisations.
On December 6, 2005,
Library and Archives Canada signed a groundbreaking cultural agreement
with the National Archives of Ireland at a ceremony in
Ireland
is unique among English-speaking census-taking countries in that the
original household manuscript returns survive (as filled in and signed
by heads of households,) rather than just the enumerators books (as
with England, Scotland and Wales)
As many of you will know, The National Archives (TNA), Kew is in the process of making changes to its public reading rooms. These changes will entail essential building work at Kew from autumn 2007 to spring 2008. There will be disruption during this period, The National Archives at Kew will be closed to the public on the following dates: 1 - 16 December 2007 inclusive and 21 - 26 January 2008 inclusive TNA intends to maintain its services while the building work is underway from autumn 2007 to spring 2008, with the exception of the above two closures. However, there may be delays, restrictions and disruption should you choose to visit during this period. The
Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) began microfilming British records
in 1945, including civil registration indexes, census records, church
records, probate records and other records useful for understanding
and linking families. Nearly every major record office in the
FamilySearch is working hard to convert its millions of microfilms to digital formats and replacing its hundreds of film cameras with digital versions, to increase accessibility via the Internet. Additionally over one hundred thousand volunteer indexers from all over the globe are logging on to FamilySearchIndexing.org to index these records. The indexes are being linked to images of the original documents and are available online at www.FamilySearch.org, the record custodian's, or an affiliate's site. The
Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) doing business as FamilySearch is a
non-profit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints. FamilySearch maintains the world's largest
repository of genealogical resources and can be accessed at the
Family History Library in
After the huge success of Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE earlier this year, the show is expanding and will take place in the larger Grand Hall at Olympia from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th May 2008. The Society of Genealogists Family History Show area will also be bigger and better than ever before. Plus the event will see an increase in the number of dedicated family history exhibitors. Two brand new sections of the event are being launched to cover more areas of history – Military History LIVE and Archaeology LIVE. Military History LIVE, which will feature the largest number of military records available than anywhere else, a militaria shop, leading military historians and rare exhibits of military vehicles. Peter and Dan Snow will be hosting a brand new ‘Battle Theatre’ where you’ll be able to learn about the strategy of key battles of the twentieth century and the people that fought in them from the father and son duo. Archaeology LIVE is the place to meet leading experts who will be able examine and identify your finds plus Time Team presenter Tony Robinson will be on hand giving advice and tips to eager archaeologists.
Normal on door price £20, all
activities at the show included.. Children aged 6-15yrs £5 in advance
and under 5yrs are free. Tickets must be bought in advance of the
show. *£1.95 transaction fee applies.
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The
FFHS will be attending the following
event:
The
London Stitch & Creative Hobby Crafts Show -
Excel,
AGM 2008 hosted by Devon FHS & Cornwall FHS in Plymouth at their family history fair on 29th March 2008 National Family History Conference “The Way We Were?” organised by the family history societies in Essex and Suffolk to be held at the University of Essex at Wivenhoe (Colchester) on 29 -31 August 2008 To win one of 10 pairs of tickets to the Who Do You Think You Are? Live - History Show, simply answer the following question. Which former member of the ‘THE GOODIES’ took part in the first TV series of Who Do you Think You Are?
(a) Graeme
Garden
Send your answer in the Subject Line of your
email to
competition@ffhs.org.uk
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winners can be seen on the FFHS website.
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