Past Search Newsletter October 2009

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October 2009

Past Search Newsletter Book launch and recent activities Nearly 60 people attended my book launch at Jarrold’s in Norwich.

Although a completely new experience for me, and a bit

daunting, the presentation went well, with lots of questions afterwards. Many thanks to those who came along.

Hundreds of books have been ordered by people who did not make it to the launch, so my thanks also goes to them.

about genealogy history.

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local

Full Marks

Congratulations to all my students who passed my post graduate module in Family History and Genealogy at the University of East Anglia.

On Air The standard of work was excellent.

Jumping from the It was enjoyable to see what printed to the spoken everyone had learned and to see word - I was on Lesley their enthusiasm for the topic.

Dolphin’s BBC Radio The second part of the course Suffolk show on 11 starts Saturday, 24 October .

August. The next day I was at Radio Norfolk for Karen Buchanan and Graham Barnard’s programme.

Spreading my wings by On both occasions I writing a book has just been spoke a bit about my one part of my expanded book before moving on repertoire of activities.

East Anglian research has to explain a some details Many months work in print at last consistently been my bread and butter, but recently requests for work further a field have been picking up.

I have always happily headed off to other corners Norfolk Family History little behind as records, in fact of the country on request, Society London Branch the church, charities and the but countrywide research for state’s attempts to help them my next book and increased I visited the Norfolk Family created a great many records. requests for personal History Society London Branch The talk is at 19:30. research have made me at on Saturday, 17 October. The quite a nomad recently.

Society of Genealogists at 14 Now I regularly visit Charterhouse Buildings was Bedfordshire, Durham, the venue for a talk on Norfolk Hertfordshire, London, Labourers and Migration.

Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, The National Archives, Great Yarmouth Wiltshire and Yorkshire (where most of my own ancestors On 3 November I will be in come from).

Great Yarmouth talking Any other requests are welcome, and of course I about tracing the migration am still immersed in research of paupers between all over Norfolk, Suffolk, parishes and across the Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire Child country. It is common to and Essex. labour a key think that ancestors of image of poverty small means leave very

Further afield

Talks and events

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This month in history... ● 2 October, 1952: Britain’s nuclear test off Trimouille Island, near Australia makes it the world’s third nuclear power. ● 4 October, 1535: The first English translation of the entire bible goes to press.

William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale had translated the text, which loosened the Latin speaking elite’s control on religion. ● 5 October, 1936: 200 men begin the Jarrow March from Tyneside to London. Their aim was to lobby parliament to help create jobs.

Local heroine - Edith Cavell ● 12 October, 1915: Edith Cavell, from Swardeston, Norfolk, is shot by the Germans. She had been aiding the escape of Allied prisoners of war. ● 24 October, 1929: Black Thursday marks the begin of the Wall Street Crash. ‘The Great Depression’ consumed the global economy over the next decade ● 31 October, 1517: Martin Luther publishes his ‘95 theses’, sparking the Protestant Reformation. The German pastor famously nailed the document to a church door.

October 2009

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New classroom events Writing Your Family History at the Society of Genealogists, June/July 2010

From Computers to Records: How to take your research beyond the internet at the Norfolk Family History Society, spring 2010

Looking ahead to next summer I’m starting a new venture with the The Society of Genealogists. The internet is the most popular The SoG will host a series of place to start family history three, interlinked research; most people are workshops in comfortable with using it, which I will but it is only the beginning go over how of discovering the past. to collate This course aims to writing and ease enthusiasts into present looking for physical your family records, which can history in be daunting if you the format are only familiar of your with electronic choosing. ones.