The Family History group has now been running for just over a year. We have a core of friendly and interested members who meet and share experience, discuss issues, and progress projects on how we can both research our own family history We also look at how we can preserve and pass on our results. Some of the topics which we explore at our meetings include:

• public and other research sources
• building family trees
• how do we store information (digitally or physically)
• what do we do with family photographs and other ‘stuff’
• preserving family stories and heritage
• who might be interested in your project.

The aim is very much to support each other and to share experience. Some members of the group are highly experienced researchers and others are beginners looking to learn more. If you want some help or if you want to help others, everyone is welcome.

There is no Family History group meeting in August.

On 9 October our meeting topic will be learning – particularly about training for trades and apprenticeships.

On 13 November, we will be welcoming back Barrie and Brian Kirk, highly experienced family history researchers, as guests. This time they will be sharing the results of some of their own family research and Barrie will be giving a talk entitled "Tracing a cousin at Trafalgar”.

There is no meeting of the Group in December.

As usual all the meetings will be at The Racing Centre starting at 10.30 am. The cost is £1.50, and tea and coffee will be available.