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Open Day on 12 October

Patricia Spencer reports on the recent SDFHS Open Day After a very wet start to the day, the sun came out in Sherborne in the late morning on Saturday, encouraging shoppers to drop into our Sherborne Research Centre for our Open Day  Many commented on our lovely premises, which we lease from the Sherborne Almshouse, founded in the fifteenth century Our building isn’t quite as old - part of it was built in 1893 when the previous buildings on the site were demolished to widen Cheap Street;...
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Who Was Tutankhamun?

Barry Brock summarises our first foray into ancient Egyptian family history I introduced Patricia Spencer’s talks on Tutankhamun, so I may be considered a biased witness, but I have no regrets This was a series of three talks given at the Society’s Sherborne Research Centre last Saturday, the 5 October Patricia, or should I say, Dr Patricia Spencer, tackled the Tutankhamun story from a different angle - she asked the basic questions any family historian would ask Instead of focussing on...
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SDFHS AGM and family history talks

Barbara Elsmore describes attending her first SDFHS AGM Arriving at the Oaktree Arena at Highbridge on Saturday 21 September there was a real buzz about Organised by the SDFHS Sedgemoor Group team, led by Christopher Deane and Lin Hoddinott, and held in a spacious family run venue the scene was set for my first AGM What a day it turned out to be Up first was Nick Barratt on the ‘Future of Family History’ His talk was stimulating to say the least and he included mention of the way in...
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Member and Guest Blogs Welcome

We welcome guest and member blog posts on any topic with a family history connection and invite you to send your contributions, which should include photo/photos, to the editor Barbara Elsmore

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