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Our Help Centre reopens on Saturday!
At last, our Family History Help Centre / Archive is re-opening — this coming Saturday! This is in the Leiston Council Chamber, IP16 4ER. It will be open for drop-in advice and personal research...
27 Jun, 2022
Benhall & Sternfield Jubilee 1887-2002
Benhall & Sternfield History Group are holding a "Jubilee Exhibition 1887-2002" at the Benhall Club, School Lane, Benhall Green, IP17 1HE from Wednesday 1st June to Monday 6th. You can see fu...
30 May, 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
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
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
Drop-In Tuesdays
UPDATED ON 1st FEBRUARY, 2022 AT 16:01 — Announcement of the date/time of our next session can be seen here.
You can read about our Drop-In Tuesdays below …
... UPDATED ON 11th JANUARY, 202...
01 Feb, 2022
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