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    AGM, Monday 25th April Genealogy brickwalls: finding a great-grandfather The 1921 Census is here C'wealth War Graves Commission Drop-In Tuesdays Chris is on Radio Suffolk this Friday! What's in a Name? Remember Then ... Posted in the Past: Stories on postcards Martlesham: Royal Flying Corps to Jets Celebrating Suffolk Women by Sarah Doig Kelsale Graveyard Survey plans
AGM, Monday 25th April

AGM, Monday 25th April

Our AGM takes place on Monday 25th at 2:30pm at Leiston Community Centre.  For more details, please click here.
01 Apr, 2022
AVSFHG Committee
Genealogy brickwalls: finding a great-grandfather

Genealogy brickwalls: finding a great-gr...

DNA: Solving genealogy brickwalls — On Monday 21st March, we were entertained via Zoom by Mia Bennett and her talk “DNA – Solving Genealogy Brickwalls”.  Using the example of her search fo...
31 Mar, 2022
Pat Carter
The 1921 Census is here

The 1921 Census is here

Today, we had an impressive demonstration of Find My Past's 1921 Census offerings, presented by their Content Licensing Manager, Paul Nixon, whose special interest is in military history and his own a...
21 Feb, 2022
Steve Stocks
C'wealth War Graves Commission

C'wealth War Graves Commission

As WWI was ending, with an estimated loss of one million fallen, there was no system in place to deal with the war dead.  In 1917, the Imperial War Graves Commission was established and then, after t...
09 Feb, 2022
Janette Robinson
Drop-In Tuesdays

Drop-In Tuesdays

UPDATED ON 1st FEBRUARY, 2022 AT 16:01 — Announcement of the date/time of our next session can be seen here.  ...  UPDATED ON 11th JANUARY, 2022— Today, we deposited over thirty history books...
01 Feb, 2022
Chris Broom, Chair
Chris is on Radio Suffolk this Friday!

Chris is on Radio Suffolk this Friday!

POSTED ON THURSDAY, 13th JANUARY 2022 — Another radio slot — this time tomorrow afternoon (Friday) at around 4:20pm to talk about the handover of the "Pen and Sword" books to Leiston Library and t...
13 Jan, 2022
Chris Broom
What's in a Name?

What's in a Name?

Denise Bates, who spoke to us over Zoom from Manchester, became interested in the use of non-standard names after discovering several examples whilst researching her own family tree. They aren't unusu...
19 Dec, 2021
Pat Carter
Remember Then ...

Remember Then ...

  Remember Then ...          On Monday, 15th November, Dr Janet Few, the new Chair of the Family History Federation, spoke to us on the subject of recalling life in Britain during the pivotal ...
30 Nov, 2021
Jan Lovell
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