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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
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
Posted in the Past: Stories on postcards

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
Steve Stocks
Martlesham: Royal Flying Corps to Jets

Martlesham: Royal Flying Corps to Jets

In September, members and visitors alike enjoyed a very informative and well-illustrated talk  by Alan Powell (of its Aviation Society)  on the history of the former airfield at Martlesham Heath.  ...
01 Nov, 2021
Angela Skelcher
Celebrating Suffolk Women by Sarah Doig

Celebrating Suffolk Women by Sarah Doig

On what was optimistically coined as ‘Freedom Day’, our July meeting was treated to an inspiring talk by Sarah Doig, entitled ‘Celebrating Suffolk Women’.  As well as being a popular speaker,...
30 Jul, 2021
Chris Broom
Kelsale Graveyard Survey plans

Kelsale Graveyard Survey plans

You may have heard our committee member John Martin talking to Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk last Wednesday about our planned survey of the tombstones in Kelsale churchyard (or have read about t...
21 Jul, 2021
Maggie Strutt/John Martin
Suffolk Archives: The Hold to fully open

Suffolk Archives: The Hold to fully open...

POSTED ON 12th JULY 2021 — The Ipswich branch of Suffolk Archives will open at The Hold from the beginning of September 2021.  This will include the John Blatchly Local Studies Library and the invi...
12 Jul, 2021
Suffolk Archives
Links for Newsletter 53

Links for Newsletter 53

Dear digital Newsletter readers,       The links below will address most of the remaining issues that Maggie mentions in her covering email of 27th June — far fewer than in Newsletter 52.  Also...
04 Jul, 2021
Maggie S and Steve S
Chris talking to Katy Bailey

Chris talking to Katy Bailey

UPDATED ON SUNDAY, 4th JULY AT 17:30 — Chris's conversation has just been uploaded onto the ABC Radio website, where he can be heard at "Community News with Katy Bailey | 26/06/21" from 42m58 to 53m...
04 Jul, 2021
Chris (updated by Steve)
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