Errors, Lies and Misinformation

Speaker: David Cufley A workshop discussing errors in Official Records and Commercial Search Engines and how to try to spot them. Case studies will be used.

Addingham Day – Free to Members

Addingham Village Hall Main Street, Addingham, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Welcome to Addingham Day The Airedale and Wharfedale Family History Society would like to welcome you all to their Family History Day. The committee have laid on a fun filled day including the following talks: Ancestors - Asylum, Divorce and Migration (Sue Steel - Bradford FHS) The Iconic German Enigma coding machine and how the … Read More

Deserters of the First World War – The Home Front

Speaker: Andrea Hetherington Desertion was a crime much more prevalent than previously discussed. This talk gives a whole new perspective to the question 'What did your relative do in the Great War?

Making the Most of a Will

Speaker: John Titterton This talk considers the deceased, the testators, the bequests, other documents and records and how combining information from more than one will produce surprising results!

My Average Ancestor

Speaker: Ian Waller During a lifetime most people left a large number of records (we all generate about a hundred records) This talk take a chronological tour ofĀ  those records and explains how they can put the flesh on the bones of our research, where they can be sound and what we can find.

Writing Your Family History

Speaker: Jackie Depelle Move on from record sheets and charts to create a narrative account to be treasured by future generations. Includes ideas for both content, style and supporting contextual sources.

The Ill, Impoverished, Illegitimate and the Insane

Speaker: Janet Few Researching our marginalised ancestors with the many and fascinating records of the workhouse, hospitals, asylums and the overseers of the poor which will be explained.

My Average Ancestor

Speaker: Ian Waller During a lifetime most people left a large number of records (we all generate about a hundred records) This talk take a chronological tour ofĀ  hose records and explains how they can put the flesh on the bones of our research, where they can be sound and what we can find.

Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy

Speaker:Ā Dr Penny Walters This talk will look at how the faster pace of internet research has uncovered many new ethical dilemmas. Including discovering secrets, lies, bigamy, enslavement, criminals, unexpected DNA relatives. upsetting findings, relatives that aren't now related and unexpected ethnicities.

Maps for Family Historians

Speaker Alan Ruston The importance of maps for research; a history of their scope and range and their development since the 18th century. Maps available online will be outlined. Virtual Doors open at 7PM for the talk to commence at 7:30PM.