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Tuesday 14th September 2004
An article in the loc al paper attracted a good crowd to the
September meeting, including a several new recruits.
Where do I go from here? An evening for beginners - and others!
For our first meeting of the new season the members of the branch
committee mounted a small exhibition illustrating a
number of different aspects of family history. Our chairman
gave a short talk about using various different sources to put the
meat on the bones of the family tree, encouraging members and guests
to write up their family history as a story, rather than just
concentrating on creating a tree. Among the sources
illustrated were army pay books, discharge books and discharge
certificates, undertakers' papers, newspaper articles and postcards.
Our talks organiser, Alan Foster, followed on with a talk for
beginners, explaining how to start your family history and
illustrating his talk with examples from his own research.
Members of the committee answered a wide range of questions from
the floor and chatted to new members after the meeting.
Tuesday 12th October 2004
The "Cinque Ports and Two Antient Townes" date back
almost a thousand years and were important in the defence of the
Kingdom from invasion from the sea for hundreds of years until most
of the harbours became silted up. Our speaker this month was Lt.Col. D. Bolton.
Tuesday 9th November 2004
November saw the return to Deal of the Society Treasurer, Mr.
Cliff Cole, who gave us a lively (if sometimes controversial) talk
entitled "What's in a Name?"
Tuesday
14th December 2004
Tuesday
11th January 2005
Tuesday 8th February 2005
Mrs Audrey Gillett
regaled us with a talk on the clothes our ancestors wore.
Tuesday 8th March 2005
March saw the welcome return of Mr Peter Ewart, who talked to us about education in Victorian England - an evening not
to be missed.
Tuesday 12th April 2005
As usual, April means the Branch AGM. Your Chairman having
resigned in December, Alan Foster was confirmed as Chairman for the
coming year. Mr Harry Harris was voted on to the Committee and
the rest of the standing officers and members were re-elected.
Our speaker this month was Miss Alison Cable from the East
Kent Archive Centre, who updated us on the resources
available at the centre and answered
questions about holdings at Whitfield and the other Kent archives.
Tuesday 10th May 2005
There was a local theme to the May meeting as Mr Dick Barber talked about the history of the White Mill at Sandwich.
Tuesday 14th June 2005
Mrs Gwen Jones presented another subject relating to Kent this
month in her talk on the hop industry and the people working in it.
Tuesday 12th July 2005
For our final meeting of the 2004/5 season we had engaged Mr Bob
Pryor to regale us with a talk about the SS Titanic.
Unfortunately he was unable to attend at the last minute and we were
fortunate to find a substitute speaker from the National Trust, who
spoke about lighthouses, in particular the South Foreland lighthouse
at St Margaret's Bay. The talk was illustrated by a working
model of the lighthouse.
Tuesday 9th August 2005
No meeting this month.
Special
Events
Thursday 10th February 2005
Family Record Centre Top ...
Tuesday 19th April 2005
National Archives, Kew Cost: Members £15, non-members £18 - bookings in advance
please - payment required in advance (no refunds). Pick-up:
in Sandwich, Deal, Walmer, St. Margaret's, Maxton and Ashford Top ...
Thursday 16th June 2005 Family Record Centre
This trip was cancelled due to lack of support. |
Kent Family
History Society