Category: Combined Branches’ Meeting

  • An Introduction to Irish Family History Research

    An Introduction to Irish Family History Research

    Irish ancestry research has the reputation of being tricky, but this talk will cover how you can get started with your Irish ancestral research. 

  • Christmas Social

    Christmas Social

    Come and join us for a Combined Branches’ Christmas Social.  It will be a chance to get together, catch up on Society developments and chat to other members of the Society.  

  • The Earl and the Pharaoh

    The Earl and the Pharaoh

    This is a book about a man whose life and death became front-page news throughout the world between the autumn of 1922 and the spring of 1923 when, with his colleague Howard Carter, he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun and then, shortly afterwards, died.

  • Scottish Sources at the Society of Genealogists

    Scottish Sources at the Society of Genealogists

    In this talk, Sue Gibbons will cover general sources for Scotland as a whole such as: armed forces records, apprenticeship, education and occupations, Scots working and emigrating abroad, State papers and Historical Manuscripts, Commission reports, land and tax records and Wills including inventories and services of heirs.

  • Underused Sources for Genealogical Research

    Underused Sources for Genealogical Research

    In the United Kingdom the wealth of records available for research are so many and so varied that sometimes some which are not on the internet are overlooked. Some are early dating back to the 1500s. In this presentation, we identify and discuss a number of under-used sources of historical information which have not been…