Not strictly to do with our area but there might be one or two members who
might want to use this facility
Ann Macey
List Admin
To: ffhs-news(a)ffhs-lists.org.uk <mailto:ffhs-news%40ffhs-lists.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:00:43 +0000
From: ffhs-news(a)ffhs-lists.org.uk <mailto:ffhs-news%40ffhs-lists.org.uk>
Subject: FFHS-NEWS Brighton History Centre - ePetition
Brighton History Centre ePetition
We have just learned of another local history centre which is threatened
with closure. Please see the petition at
http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=83
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http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=83&RPI...
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http://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?ID=83&RPI...
17> for further details. It would be good to see a sharp increase in
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number of people supporting this move to resist closure of a valuable
resource.
We are informed that if this Family History Centre closes in March as
proposed, local historians - and those further afield who rely on them for
look-ups, could lose access to (among many other things):
- an unrivalled local Sussex newspaper archive reaching back to the 18th
Century
- the complete national birth, death and marriage indexes
- electoral rolls stretching back to the 19th Century
- free access to the Ancestry Online databases
- an unrivalled collection of historic maps of Brighton and Sussex
- a fantastic collection of local Brighton and Sussex residential and trade
directories
- the expert assistance of the Centre staff whose jobs will disappear if the
Centre closes in March.
Roger Lewry
FFHS Archives Liaison
exec.member.rl(a)ffhs.org.uk <mailto:exec.member.rl%40ffhs.org.uk>
30 December 2009
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