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Who Do Who Do You Think You Are?LIVE

Posted on 22nd February 2014

The SDFHS Chair, Ann-Marie Wilkinson, has been keeping a diary during this year's WDYTYA Tuesday Car nicely packed, just need to pop into the local butchers in Wedmore to pick up some local meat to give to my hosts, Barry and Ann Rideout, who look after me for the next few days As usual the butcher has local meat, this time it is Gloucester Old Spot pork and some of his home made sausages The journey was fairly uneventful, although the traffic was bad around Stonehenge – the new... more

Preparing for ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’

Posted on 18th February 2014

Our Chairman, Ann-Marie Wilkinson, and other volunteers will be at the SDFHS table for all three days (20th-22nd February) of WDYTYA Please do come and say ‘hello’ and bring any queries you may have about your Somerset or Dorset familiesWho Do You Think You Are starts on Thursday 20th February at Olympia Preparations have been made and on Friday 14th Steve and I braved the weather to go to Sherborne to pick up all the items we take for the SDFHS tables Barry, John, Wendy and Patricia... more

Desperately Seeking Granny

Posted on 5th February 2014

The Society's Chairman, Ann-Marie Wilkinson, describes a family history help session at Burnham-on-Sea They say that you should try to do something new every day Well on Monday (3rd February), I was interviewed live on Radio Bristol and Somerset Sound This was at the National Libraries Day at Burnham-on-Sea where I was doing a “Desperately Seeking Granny” session I was supposed to be talking about Family History so I was a bit surprised when the first question I was asked was about... more

The Greenwood Tree February 2014

Posted on 25th January 2014

Bob Barber, Editor of the SDFHS Journal, The Greenwood Tree, gives a preview of the February 2014 issue Another year rolls by and we start the year with a small facelift for The Greenwood Tree, including a slight colour change and some new layouts for the yellow pages and inside covers We begin a new series of articles in the February 2014 edition Colin Dean, former editor and a regular contributor, will highlight some of the rare, sometimes unique, material held in the SDFHS Research Centre... more

Skills Workshop on Documents

Posted on 20th January 2014

Dorothy Bower describes Ted Udall's 'Skills Workshop on Documents' On Saturday last (18 January), along with 14 other members, I attended the Skills Workshop, on reading old documents, held at the SDFHS Family History Centre in Sherborne Ted Udall, the SDFHS Secretary and an experienced family historian, initially took us through the various types of documents and the working of the scribes, the tools used, the formation of the characters and the formats for transcribing and translating ... more

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