Speaker: Denise Bates Investigates the social and cultural history of broken engagements between 1780 -1970 and why the law allowed the person who had been jilted to claim damages from the person who had broken the engagement. Meet the law that gave nineteenth century women better rights than men, and the women who enforced their … Read More

Speaker: Dan Sudron (NY Archives) Dan is providing an overview on Quarter Sessions. These historic court sessions held quarterly in the UK and had jurisdiction over criminal and civil matters. They played a crucial role in local governance and justice administration. Topics could include the court's structure, types of cases heard, and its significance in … Read More

Speaker: Jackie Depelle No not the once popular television series that some may remember, rather the Family and Local History surrounding three single sisters in the West Riding of Yorkshire. With no direct family knowledge, stories or surviving memorabilia what can be discovered about these ladies who were never wives or widows? Many consider researching … Read More

Speaker: Gill Blanchard Where to find records, locate monumental inscriptions and graves and how to use them in research.

We will be holding the Annual General Meeting on Zoom, followed by a Talk By Frank Shiers on "Research Across Boundaries"

Speaker: Celia Heritage What to look out for and how it would have been when your ancestors were there. Covers church interior, gravestones, styles, symbolism, Reformation and burial.

Speaker: Linda Hammond Uncover the hidden depths of the 1939 National Register, often likened to an additional census for England and Wales. Decode annotations, revealing family history insights, and master the art of discovering hidden secrets within the register.

Speaker: Julie Goucher Exploring the fascinating subject of surnames – types, geographical spread, why genealogists begin surname research & how to and why build a surname project.

Speaker: Jean Renwick When Elizabeth Addy died in 1849, her grieving husband commemorated her life with a mourning brooch. In The Mourning Brooch Book One An ending. A beginning we learnt how her two young daughters grew up in Yorkshire and married. In The Mourning Brooch Book Two Moving on, this much-loved saga continues and … Read More

Speaker: Janet Few Delivered in period costume describing cooking, cleaning, the making and laundering of clothes, maintaining the garden and the many other tasks of the Stuart housewife. Our Stuart female ancestors may be people we can identify, or they may be lurking, nameless, waiting to be discovered. In either case they existed, therefore we … Read More