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The Greenwood Tree for November 2014

Posted on 29th October 2014

The Editor of The Greenwood Tree, Bob Barber, previews the contents of the November 2014 edition The November edition of The Greenwood Tree returns to the more usual format, after the single-themed edition in August It seemed appropriate to devote the majority of that issue to an event as important as the First World War We will still be featuring items on WW1 as part of the general run of articles, but also marking particularly important phases of the War Despite publishing eight extra pages,... more

Family History in Focus – hands on!

Posted on 19th October 2014

Yesterday we had the second of our Family History in Focus events when we were able to be really 'hands-on' and try to apply the criteria for dating and identifying images that we had learned in the first session on 6 September, augmented with more good advice from our two speakers - Mike Bolton and Robin Ansell To enable everyone attending to get the full benefit of their expertise, we had limited the number of participants to 14 and had a full complement on the day Mike started the event... more

Family History Day & AGM

Posted on 21st September 2014

Each year the SDFHS Family History Day, which includes our AGM, is organised by one of our ten local groups and this year it was the turn of the South Dorset Group who hosted the event at St Aldhelm's Church Centre in Weymouth The venue was excellent, very easy to find and with good facilities, and all the hard work done by the Group in preparation paid off, resulting in a very well-organised and interesting day In addition to the talks, there were several stalls (including our own SDFHS... more

Family History in Focus

Posted on 7th September 2014

I’m not sure where to start in summarizing yesterday's brilliant talks about early photography and family history, held at our Family History Centre in Sherborne - there were so many fascinating facts and wonderful images that any summary is bound not to be fully representative All of the three speakers gave well-thought-out and wonderfully illustrated presentations and they were all fluent, interesting and entertaining - it isn’t often that you can say that about a multi-speaker... more

Archival conservation, book binding and some historical insights.

Posted on 9th August 2014

We had a fascinating talk this afternoon at our Family History Centre by Rex Lancefield, a professional conservator whose family business specialises in archival conservation and book binding Rex illustrated his talk by describing some of the many projects on which he has worked, relating in detail how books, royal charters, legal documents, official registers, etc have been conserved, restored and protected for display or storage He brought with him examples of archivally sound papers,... more

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