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Stay up to date with all that is happening in and around the society, past, present and in the future.
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14
A new update to the website for Members. Some Research Aid Diagrams & Charts in downloadable PDF format are now available.
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Jun
09
Information relating to new and existing House Groups have been added to the page within the Members Only Area. For your convenience the next 8 forthcoming House Group meetings have been added to the House Group listings and all such House Group events appear within the mini calendar on this page.
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May
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Volume 14, Journals 1 to 7 covering the years 2016 and up to September 2017 have been uploaded and are now available to view in PDF format within the Members Only Area.
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May
20
More links to other useful websites have been added to the External Links page. (Accessed via menus RESOURCES>External Links). Kent Family History Society Sussex Family History Group Sussex Military History Society
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May
18
Useful links to other websites have been added to the External Links page to assist with your research. ( Accessed via the menus RESOURCES>External Links). Commonwealth War Graves Commission - covering the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars Francis Frith Collection – Historical photographs from the Victoria...
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May
12
Volume 13, Journals 5 to 12 covering the years 2014 and 2015 have been uploaded and are now available to view in PDF format within the Members Only Area.
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May
12
Forthcoming Drop in Sessions & Fairs have been added to the Events calendar. See COMMUNITY>Events page. These appear within the mini calendar and also the next (up to) 5 forthcoming are listed towards the bottom right of the screen.
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May
07
Volume 13, Journals 1 to 4 covering the year 2013 have been uploaded and are now available to view in PDF format within the Members Only Area.
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Apr
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Photographs of Royal Arsenal Children's Parties (circa. 1950) have been uploaded into the Members Only Area (M.O.A.). and appear on their own page accessed from the MEMBERS drop down menu.
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Apr
08
Additional links to the following websites have been placed on the 'External Website Links' page. (See under the RESOURCES menu) You will find links to the Gazetteer of British Place Names, The National Archives of Ireland, National Library of Ireland, National Library of Scotland, FreeCEN, FreeREG and Old Maps.
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Apr
02
Volume 12, Journals 1 to 12 covering the years 2010 to 2012 have been uploaded and are now available to view in PDF format within the Members Only Area.
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Mar
26
New links to the following websites have been placed on the 'External Website Links' page. (See under the RESOURCES menu) You will find links to Britain from Above, Ship Index, UKBMD - Births, Marriages, Deaths Indexes & Census Transcriptions, UKGDL - Genealogical Directories, Lists and UKMFH - Military Family History
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Mar
18
Due to an unfortunate sequence of events that were out of our hands, we have had to change the date of our September meeting from Saturday 22nd to Saturday 15th . The venue is the Methodist Church as usual. Meryl Catty will still able to visit us, but we have had to change the title of the talk, as Maureen Binks will be on holiday on the 15th. Mery...
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Mar
11
Everyone of your ancestors had to earn a living to survive, no social services and little parish support. So if you want to learn more about occupational records then Jean Stirk's workshop on 21 March 2018 will help you. Contact workshop @nwkfhs.org.uk . There are places available for members. Sorry, due to lack of workshop space we cannot accept n...
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Mar
10
Each year the Society produces a slim wall calendar using images submitted by members. Contributions after costs from the sales of the calendar become income for the Society. This year you can sponsor the cost of the printing by making a donation. This will reduce the cost and enable us to sell the calendar at a lower price. The names of all the sp...
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Mar
06
Guest speaker Peter Calver of Lost Cousins Our meeting on Saturday 3 March was cancelled as the venue, Dartford Science and Technology College, had been closed due to snowfall. It was hoped to hold the meeting this Saturday 10 March as the speaker, Peter Calver, of LostCousins is available. BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE COLLEGE HAS TOLD US THAT THE HALL IS...
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Jan
20
The Data protection regulations come into force on the 25 May 2018. Family History Societies like NWKFHS need to consider these regulations. Help on the regulations is available on the Federation of Family History Web site.
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Jan
19
If you have an interest in Bedfordshire you can find the F G Emmison published parish registers online at www.archive.org . These transcriptions were published in the 1930s to 1940s and run to about forty volumes. Some volumes deal with a single parish while others combine a number of parishes.
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Jan
19
At the mapping workshop on Wednesday 17th January 2018 one of the queries raised was to do with a brickmaker in 1911 at Kilsyth, Stirlingshire. Checking the Brickmakers Index there were two entries for sources that refer to Kilsyth. The first was Gartshore Brickworks at Kilsyth, Dunbartonshire. The second was for Gartshore Brickworks at Kiltsyth St...
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