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The Greenwood Tree – preview of the November 2015 edition

Posted on 28th October 2015

The November 2015 issue of The Greenwood Tree will be appearing soon, and we have another larger-than-usual edition this time – 36 pages of articles, regular features and news Following the very successful Rid(e)out symposium held at the Family History Centre in Sherborne in August, we have two articles by speakers on that occasion Roger Guttridge, the local journalist, author and former editor of The Greenwood Tree, has updated his research into Roger Ridout, a local smuggler in the 18th... more

More Family Treasures

Posted on 22nd October 2015

Barbara Elsmore has been scouring the charity shops of Sherborne collecting items, with no apparent monetary value, and using them to create a display at our Family History Centre where she hopes they will act as reminders to members and visitors of things they may have used, or seen used, in the past and become talking points You may have noticed that I love coming across old things, once in regular use, that have a story to tell First up I trawled through my own garage where I found a... more

‘The Greenwood Tree’ 1975-2015 – now available as PDFs

Posted on 16th August 2015

All editions published to date of the SDFHS award-winning journal The Greenwood Tree are now digitally available in fully-searchable PDFs, as the Editor, Bob Barber, explains In the August edition of The Greenwood Tree we announced that we are making available for sale the set of 40 years of the journal in digital format, as PDF files The digitised set covers the years 1975-2015, up to and including the August 2015 edition The November 2015 Greenwood Tree will in due course be made available... more

Reflections on a Family History Journey

Posted on 26th July 2015

In spring this year Kerri Curtis made the long journey from Tasmania to the south-west of England, tracing the history of her family back to villages in Somerset and Dorset It was my mother who inspired in me an avid interest in our family history When I was a child, she told me stories about her father’s migration to Australia from Wales in the 1920s The rest of his family – mother, father, sister and brothers, had followed a few years later, settling in a small country town in New South... more

The Sherborne Pageant of 1905

Posted on 12th July 2015

In 1905, to mark the 1,200th anniversary of the founding of the town of Sherborne by Bishop St Aldhelm in 705, the local Church Council decided to mark the event with a historical pageant which, during the planning, grew in size to involve 900 local people and was staged in the grounds of Sherborne’s ruined 12th Century castle A team of researchers at King’s College, London is currently studying historical pageants for a major AHRC-funded Research Project and on Saturday 4 July Dr Tom... more

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