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Family History

The Pageant’s Progress

Posted on 16th August 2017

It has been very pleasing to receive contact from others who have discovered that someone they may have further knowledge about, or who might have been a family member, took part in the Sherborne Pageant of 1905 Any discoveries, however small, are often met with wonder or surprise as a little chink of light is thrown onto someone from long ago and a photo is often the key Many of the old photos can be seen in the Sherborne School Archive Flickr collection There is absolutely nothing like a... more

Copyright and family history

Posted on 9th August 2017

Many family historians regularly post online, or circulate on social media, images of themselves and their families and, on the whole, these will probably not fall foul of copyright or intellectual property laws, since they are likely to have been taken by family members who are the legal copyright holders, and who would, even if they should be unaware of the posting, not object to them being used Copyright is, however, a very tricky subject and there are grey areas, where some guidance might... more

Recent Update to Family Tree Maker

Posted on 27th July 2017

Well I have finally done it - I have downloaded Family Tree Maker 2017 and I am very happy about it Why did this become such a big deal for FTM long term users like me As I described in my previous post, it was because all our hard work over many years of painstaking research together with some of the easy to use features of FTM were being affected by changing technology No longer could we buy ourselves a disk, for a fairly modest price, download it onto our computers and go about the... more

Intriguing Photographs (- first in series)

Posted on 25th June 2017

We cannot help but be intrigued by mystery photographs They may be of people staring out at us from long ago or they could be of buildings or locations now completely unknown to us I would like to challenge you with two photographs found in one of those lovely old Victorian albums which, if we are very lucky, are found to exist somewhere in our family The album belonged to my great, grand aunt Ada Collings born in Nether Compton in 1869 and I have reason to believe it was a gift, possibly... more

The Greenwood Tree – June 2017

Posted on 30th May 2017

The June issue of The Greenwood Tree will be appearing shortly and is due to be posted to all 2017 Members this week It can also be viewed and/or downloaded as a PDF file in the Members’ Area of our website As we did in the March issue, we have preserved the colour content in the digital version, so it’s well worth having a look on-line In addition to the usual wide range of articles, this issue contains details (yellow page i, and p61) of the Society's annual... more

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