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Tracing your House History
At the end of a July day of record-breaking temperatures in the county, we were delighted to welcome back Gill Blanchard. She opened her comprehensive presentation with a personal view that research...
19 Jul, 2022
Louisa Garrett Anderson's Endell St Hosp...
When World War One began in 1914, women doctors came forward with offers of help and were soon told by the British military to “go home and sit still”. Louisa Garrett Anderson (of Aldeburgh) a...
28 Jun, 2022
The Women's Land Army in Suffolk, with N...
After a couple of years holding meetings only on Zoom, we enjoyed our first in-person talk on 16th May, when members and visitors gathered at Leiston Community Centre to hear Nicky Reynolds give a fas...
19 May, 2022
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
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
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
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
Posted in the Past: Stories on postcards...
Our speaker on 18th October was Helen Baggott, of the Family History Federation, over Zoom, about her investigations into the family backgrounds of senders and recipients of postcards in her private...
03 Nov, 2021