Come and visit us, at the Society's Open Day & Fair, Saturday 1st June 2013, 10:00AM - 4:00PM, The Shirehall, Shrewsbury. Admission £3 Pay on Door. Free Parking. Non-Members Welcome.
SPEAKERS:
11.00 am
Subject - "Name Lists for The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century"
Speaker - Michael Gandy
Lay Subsidies, Protestation, Hearth Tax, etc. It's not about the obvious parish sources such as parish registers and wills (they get mentioned but skated over).
Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND
Subject - "What’s in The Parish Chest"
Speaker - Richard Ratcliffe
At a new venue - Gloucester Rugby Club, Kingsholm Stadium, Kingsholm Road, Gloucester, GL1 3AX
Saturday 4th May between 10.am-4.00pm.
Shropshire FHS will be in attendance with a Helpdesk/Computer Look-ups, also Shropshire Local Interest Books and Maps and our own CD's, plus General Family History Research Books all for sale.
Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND
Subject - "Mining and Its Landlords, Adventurers and Miners Around Shrewsbury"
Speaker - Mike Shaw
Birmingham NEC 09:30-17:00
On sunday Shropshire Family History Society will be manning the Federation of Family History Societies stand at this fair. We will be there, essentially, to promote Family History and Genealogy nationally but are also happy to assist with Shropshire queries and will have a laptop of our own information with us.
Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND
Subject - "Mayhem on the Midland, An Accident, a Suicide and a Murder"
Speaker - Chris Rouse
At Village Hall, Caersws, Montgomeryshire/Powys. 10AM-1PM
Shropshire FHS will be in attendance with a Helpdesk/Computer Look-ups, also Shropshire Local Interest Books and Maps and our own CD's, plus General Family History Research Books all for sale.
Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND
Subject - "Hitting the headlines in 18th Century Shrewsbury"
Speaker - John Butterworth
How Thomas Wood, who founded the Shrewsbury Chronicle in 1772, the fourth oldest weekly paper still going in the UK today, and how Mr Robert Lawrence of The Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury, made Shrewsbury one of the top towns in the country in the late 18th Century.
At Northwich Memorial Hall, Saturday 16th February between 10.am-4.00pm.
Stalls and Displays, Second-hand Books, CD and Book Sales, Demonstrations, Help Desk. Come and meet our Groups:
Northwich Memorial Hall, Chester Way CW9 5QJ - free parking adjacent to the venue.
Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND
We will be having a short AGM followed by a talk.
Subject - "Heritage Volunteering: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Family History "
Speaker - John Benson
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