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Somerset & Dorset
Family History Society
Family History Society
We are a small friendly group that usually meets at Loders Village Hall, Loders, Bridport, DT6 3SA. (It’s got free parking and the access is flat or sloping) There’s always a chance for a chat and a cup of tea and a biscuit with other members and visitors.
We meet on the second Saturday of the month in the Hall at 2pm and we’ll run a couple of zoom meetings a year. See the events list for the actual dates and details.
We often have a guest speaker with a local theme or a current issue. As many of our group don’t always have local ancestors, we also try to include talks with a wider appeal. We also run sessions with members, so they can share research, ask questions and generally talk about family and local history. Once a year, we have a workshop or exhibition so that members can bring their research.
There’s a Christmas lunch in November / December and a summer outing in July to a local attraction.
Now’s your chance to hear Gill Blanchard talk about house history and how to go about your own research. Gill is a hugely experienced and qualified researcher, historian and published author on local, house and family history and we’re very pleased to welcome her to our Society to speak.
Discover the main resources to trace the history of your own home and where your ancestors lived with leading UK house historian and the author of ‘Tracing Your House History’ (Pen and Sword Books). Find out which sources to use to place a building in time and place, uncover who lived in it, what else it was used for and when it was built.
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If you’ve already emailed Jane in order to attend a zoom meeting, you won’t need to contact us again. We build up a list of subscribers & send out the zoom details, shortly before the meeting.
Otherwise, do contact her ([email protected]) quoting your membership number. We will then add you to our list.
Brought to you by the West Dorset Group on behalf of S&D FHS
Tim Gale will be speaking on Downe Hall and its place in Bridport’s history. Tim is a local landscape architect and urban designer. The Hall, on Coneygar Hill, is intertwined with Bridport’s rope and net history and amongst its owners and occupants were rope and twine merchants, lawyers and the Commander of the Hanoverian Army.
All welcome, members £2, visitors £4.
If any member would like to join any of the zoom sessions, contact Jane [email protected], and I will send you the details.
Use the form to send a message or telephone Jane on 01308 425710 . Please use the form for any queries or comments about the programme.
While Group members have a good deal of local knowledge, they are not usually in a position to carry out documentary research. If you need research done, please see “How We Can Help.”
Whitchurch Canonicorum WWI Memorial
Sylvia Creed-Castle organised an exhibition in March 2018 about the men listed on the Whitchurch Canonicorum WWI memorial. You can download here a list of the men with more details of their lives and deaths.
| 4 September | Zoom meeting 2pm |
| 10 October | ‘Where the Dipping is Ripping’: the Dorset Photographs of Joseph Robert Potts – Carlos Guarita (Zoom meeting) |
| 14 November | Herrison Asylum Project’ – Jacqui Halewood (Dorset History Centre). (Zoom meeting) |