Tag: Meeting Summary
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The Cope Hall Colony
The Cope Hall Colony was a social experiment which lasted from 1917 to 1919. Though short-lived, it had lasting influence on the probation service.
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Finding Great Grandad: A practical introduction to tracing WW1 soldiers
Our July talk, given by the popular speaker Mike Cooper, was entitled “Finding (Great) Grandad: Army Records for the Great War
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Local Family History – member led talks
‘Finchampstead and its Lords of the Manor’ by Christine Cox; and Michael Rea`s talk entitled ‘An odd Fyshe’
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Where there’s a will, there’s usually an argument
Reading Branch meeting 29th September 2022 Speaker: Sue Ellis Sue took us on a liberally illustrated look at wills, what they look like, what terminology they include and what information they can give a family historian. Wills were first recorded by the ancient Greeks mainly to explain how to dispose of a person’s estate of…
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West Berkshire war memorials
The years immediately after the Great War saw the greatest impetus for erecting war memorials, but there was no co-ordinated programme, resulting in no national pattern or model; each community made its own decisons. Memorials served as a focus for bereaved families for whom there was no known grave.
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Where there’s a will there’s an argument
Wills can reveal much about family relationships that had been hidden during a testator’s life
