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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
18th Mar: Reading the Original: deciphering old documents

18th Mar: Reading the Original: decipher...

For our first talk of meteorological Spring, on 18th March we were delighted to welcome ‘virtual’ guest Jackie Depelle from her home in West Yorkshire.  A well-known family history tutor and spea...
23 Mar, 2024
Chris Broom
AGM, Monday 15th April

AGM, Monday 15th April

Our AGM takes place on Monday 15th at 2:30pm at the Fromus Centre, Saxmundham.  For more details, please click here.
21 Mar, 2024
AVSFHG Committee
19th Feb: Family History from Education Records

19th Feb: Family History from Education ...

Family History from Education Records — Schools, Universities, Reformatories  On February 19th, over twenty visitors and members were in the Fromus Centre in Saxmundham, to be joined by another f...
14 Mar, 2024
Angie Skelcher
The 1939 Register

The 1939 Register

Our returning speaker on 20th May is Dr Penny Walters, some 3½ years after one of our earliest Zoom sessions in 2020, when she explained "Dissecting UK Censuses".  This time, her subject is "The 193...
07 Mar, 2024
Dr Penny Walters / NatArc
15th Jan: Conserving your Family Archive

15th Jan: Conserving your Family Archive...

You can now read a talk-report on Sue Gibbons' presentation.  ❋⚭+ ❋⚭+ ❋⚭+ ❋⚭+ ❋⚭+ ❋⚭+ ❋⚭+    Sue Gibbons, a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, and their former Li...
06 Feb, 2024
Angie Skelcher
The Pirate Radio Revolution of the 60s!

The Pirate Radio Revolution of the 60s!

Our talk on 17th June is an interesting and entertaining film archive, with photos and audio recordings — an affectionate history of the sixties' 'Offshore Radio' and 'Pop Pirate' stations, with a S...
31 Jan, 2024
Angie Skelcher
Members' Stories III: Skeletons and DNA Surprises ...

Members' Stories III: Skeletons and DNA ...

UPDATED ON 31st DECEMBER, 2023 — In the third of our occasional series of Members' Stories events on 11th December, Maggie shared the history of "a skeleton in the cupboard", whilst Jane gave us hel...
31 Dec, 2023
Steve Stocks
Mon 20th Nov: Sons of the Soil

Mon 20th Nov: Sons of the Soil

UPDATED ON 11th DECEMBER, 2023 — "Sons of the Soil" by Dr Janet Few  On 20th November the Fromus Centre, Saxmundham, held an audience waiting to find out how to trace their relatives who were invo...
11 Dec, 2023
Jenny Mann
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