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News Log - 2017

This page provides a brief log of the main items of news for the Society for the year 2017, with most recent items shown first.

21-Dec-2017	Christmas Members' meeting - Excellent refreshments - and Muriel gives us all a quiz.
16-Nov-2017	Members' meeting - talk by Phil Thomaselli on 'Tracing your Military Ancestors'.
4-Nov-2017	Roland Bostock, Margaret Cunnew and Maggie Mold ran our stall at West Surrey FHS Open Day and Family History Fair in Woking, Surrey.
19-Oct-2017	Members' meeting - The planned speaker gave late notice that he could not attend. An impromptu meeting was arranged, mostly Roland Bostock (webmaster) showing some of the facilities of our website.
8-Oct-2017	Roland Bostock, Margaret Cunnew and Maggie Mold ran our stall at Hampshire Genealogy Society's Family History Fair and Open Day in Basingstoke, Hants.
6-Oct-2017	Roland Bostock, Margaret Cunnew, Yvonne Masson and Muriel Sprott ran our stall at the Full of Life Fair at Twickenham Rugby Stadium.
24-Sep-2017	Roland Bostock, Margaret Cunnew and Muriel Sprott ran our stall at The London Family History Show at Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey.
21-Sep-2017	Members' meeting - talk by Kirsty Gray on 'Heir Hunting - the Real Deal'.
17-Aug-2017	Members' meeting - talk by Janet Few on 'Toleration or Turmoil? English Non-Conformity and our Ancestors'.
29-Jul-2017	Margaret Cunnew, Brian and Pam Smith, and Muriel Sprott ran our stall at Bucks FHS Open Day at Aylesbury, Bucks .
21-Jul-2017	June Watkins funeral at Hanworth Crematorium.
20-Jul-2017	Members' meeting - Get Online - hosted by Kirsty Gray and Carole Steers.
16-Jun-2017	Members' meeting - talk by Gill Blanchard on 'Tracing a House History'.
30-May-2017	Roland Bostock sets up a page for the Society on Wikipedia, subsequently removed by Wikipedia editors as the Society is not sufficienty 'notable'!.
18-May-2017	Members' neeting - talk by Celia Heritage on 'Newspapers for Family Historians'.
4-May-2017	Unwanted GRO certificates now only £1.
20-Apr-2017	Members' meeting - talk by Alison Craze on 'Brookwood Hospital - Asylum or Institution'.
25-Mar-2017	Kay Dudman, Yvonne Masson and Joan Storkey attended West London Local History Conference, and ran our bookstall.
16-Mar-2017	AGM and Members' meeting - talk by Steve Hookins on 'Meet Mr. Warden'. Yvonne Masson and Brian and Pam Smith were each awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Society.
16-Feb-2017	Members' meeting - talk by Beverley Walker on 'Was Your Ancestor a Gypsy?'.
19-Jan-2017	Members' meeting - talk by Paul Blake on 'London Genealogy - or the Metropolitan Nightmare'.

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Next Meeting

Our next meeting is on Thursday 16th January 2025. The focus of the meeting will be a talk by Ian Porter titled The Real Downton Abbey. Ian will be speaking on Zoom. Members may be remote or at St. John's.

Next Fair

Our next family history fair is the East Surrey Virtual Family History Fair on Saturday 25th January.

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21-Dec-2024

New image (and tip) of the month.

13-Dec-2024

The Memorial Inscriptions of Isleworth Cemetery are added.

22-Nov-2024

New image (and tip) of the month.

17-Nov-2024

We have joined Bluesky. The active icon appears on all our pages as a Quick Link.

9-Nov-2024

Committee minutes for September 2024 now added to Members Area.

4-Nov-2024

Thanks to Lesley Kinch, all journals are now fully digitised. Enjoy.

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