Just a reminder that this coming Saturday (3rd June) is our own Family History Fair at the
Shirehall, Shrewsbury, 10-4PM £3 Entry, free parking. Non-Members Welcome.
The Shirehall, Shrewsbury.
Admission: £3 Pay on Door.
Free Parking.
Non-Members Welcome.
SPEAKERS:
11.00 am
Subject - "Family History from Education Records - looking at the wide variety of
sources available"
Speaker - Dr Colin Chapman
2.30 pm
Subject - "Educating Poor Johnnie - what schooling was available for the
'ordinary' child"
Speaker - Eve McLaughlin
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Commercial Stands booked include:-
Andrew M. Punshon (formerly Nostalgia Online)
CAB Search
Chris Makepeace - Alan Godfrey Maps
David & Elizabeth Benson - Old Postcards
Family Legacy Cards
Military & Family Genealogy
Newtown Design Services
This Way Books & Cassini Historical Maps
Unknown Soldier - Military Archive & Soldier Research Services
'Wyvern' Railway Ancestry Research Advice
Family History Societies booked include:-
Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (BMSGH)
Bristol & Avon Family History Society
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS)
Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society
Malvern (Worcestershire) Family History Society
Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society
Romany & Traveller Family History Society
Others Societies and Groups:-
Friends of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS)
Shropshire Archives
The Wolverhampton Branch of the Western Front Association
Plus from Shropshire FHS:-
Our Shropshire HelpDesk
Parish Registers
Burial Indexes
Census Indexes
Monumental Inscriptions
Books & Maps
Quarter Sessions
Wills & Strays
IGI
1881 Census
Microfiche
SFHS Research Materials Available
Light Lunches and refreshments available
Why not arrange to meet up with your newly found long lost relatives?
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And of course our monthly talks are on the 3rd Tuesday of each month excluding July &
August at The Old Chapel Community Centre, Cross Houses, Nr Shrewsbury SY5 6JH, where we
have a friendly atmosphere, a speaker, help desk, books, maps and CDs for sale, and after
the speaker you can get a tea or a coffee - see our web-site for more info (when I have
updated it!).
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