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    17 March 2025 Life in the Wrens Manette Baillie 16 December 2024. An ancestral Christmas. 17th February: HENRY ADAMS CUPPER - A SUFFOLK PIONEER – Geoffrey Robinson 21 October 2024 Researching Criminal Children 16th September : Where are the Fellows who cut the hay? 15 July: Members’ Stories IV 5th Oct: Open Day 2024 20th Apr: FHF Really Useful Show/St.Ives 18th Mar: Reading the Original: deciphering old documents AGM, Monday 15th April 19th Feb: Family History from Education Records The 1939 Register
17 March 2025 Life in the Wrens   Manette Baillie

17 March 2025 Life in the Wrens Manett...

17 March 2025  "Life in the Wrens” – Manette BaillieManette Baillie, now aged 102 and living in Benhall, Suffolk, was only 17 when Britain declared war on 3rd September 1939. Initially she joined...
04 Feb, 2025
AVSFHG
16 December 2024. An ancestral Christmas.

16 December 2024. An ancestral Christmas...

16th December 2024. An Ancestral Christmas with Liz Yule  Liz Yule, Director of Research at The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, takes a light-hearted look at Christmases past and how ...
14 Nov, 2024
Mick Ayers
17th February: HENRY ADAMS CUPPER - A SUFFOLK PIONEER – Geoffrey Robinson

17th February: HENRY ADAMS CUPPER - A SU...

Monday 17th February: HENRY ADAMS CUPPER - A SUFFOLK PIONEER – Geoffrey Robinson During the second half of the 19th century, a steady stream of emigrants left East Anglia to settle in the United Sta...
04 Feb, 2025
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21 October 2024 Researching Criminal Children

21 October 2024 Researching Criminal Chi...

21 October 2024 Researching Criminal Children Linda gave a talk on Ragged, poor and mischievous young thieves and street Arabs: Researching Criminal Children You may well think that this session doe...
08 Oct, 2024
Linda Hammond
16th September : Where are the Fellows who cut the hay?

16th September : Where are the Fellows w...

Robert Ashtons connection with the work of oral historian George Ewart Evans stretches back to his childhood, but it was only in his mid-60s that he finally began to walk in Evan's footsteps, research...
12 Jul, 2024
Mick Ayers
15 July: Members’ Stories IV

15 July: Members’ Stories IV

TRAM DRIVERS AND A BOY SAILOR   In a return of a Members' favourite, two of our Members will entertain us and visitors with stories from their own family history research:  The Tram Drivers’ Wi...
11 Jun, 2024
Maggie Strutt
5th Oct: Open Day 2024

5th Oct: Open Day 2024

As in 2023, this will take place at the Fromus Centre.  Details follow.
11 Apr, 2024
AVSFHG Committee
20th Apr: FHF Really Useful Show/St.Ives

20th Apr: FHF Really Useful Show/St.Ives...

On Saturday, 20th April at the Family History Federation's «Really Useful 'Live' Family History Show», our Group will have a stall to help mark their 50th Anniversary.   You can download the flye...
08 Apr, 2024
Chris Broom, Chair
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