West Middlesex Family History Society

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Thursday 16th July was an important date in the Society's calendar. As the coronavirus lockdown continues, and prevents us holding our meetings at St. John's Centre, Isleworth, we have now set up a new programme of talks to be held online using Zoom, and 16th July was our first such meeting. This is how the presentation appears on your computer screen. Janet Few, the presenter, is shown on the right with her powerpoint presentation using the main area. The meeting went extremely well. From 7:30 to 7:45 members were arriving, so that by 7:45 we had 27 members present as well as Janet Few. Chairman Ann Greene then opened the meeting and we had a few introductions of committee members. Then it was on with the talk which was titled 'Sons of the Soil: Tracing your Agricultural Labouring Ancestors'. Timing was impeccable. There were a few questions at the end of the talk, and the meeting closed shortly after 9:00 pm.

Tip of the month
Surname Interests - Our members have registered 750 separate surname interests, but that still amounts to rather a small database of interests when you are hoping to find someone else with a shared interest. Scaling up is what is needed, and that has now happened. To check on surname interests you should now always follow the link on our Surname Interests page to the national database of surname interests maintained by the Family History Federation. This includes some 41,000 registered surname interests from at least 13 contributing family history societies, including us of course.