Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Summary Posted 23 February 2021 by Robert William Sterry Whether or not you watched the recent seminar series Ancestors in Print, you might want to watch the recordings. There was so much information to take in, and so many name rich websites and sources, that it will be well worth taking your time to go through them at your own pace. [Click to continue…]
Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Seminar 4 Posted 10 February 2021 by Karen Burnell Our final seminar in this series on Wednesday 17th February 2021 at 8pm (GMT) takes us back to newspapers, but this time exploring newspaper collections in National Libraries globally. Michelle Patient, Genealogist and DNA consultant for the Australian SBS TV series Every Family has a Secret, will take the subject In Print – Here, There and Everywhere to delve into this invaluable resource for researching our family histories. [Click to continue…]
Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Seminar 3 Posted 3 February 2021 by Karen Burnell Wednesday 10 February 2021 at 8pm (GMT) is the next date for your diary, when we will turn our attention to Ephemeral Names: printed ephemera as a resource for one-name historians with particular reference to the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. [Click to continue…]
Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Seminar 2 Posted 28 January 2021 by Karen Burnell Our second online seminar in our Ancestors in Print series focuses on newspapers. On Wednesday 3 February 2021 at 8pm (GMT), Aoife O’Connor, Head of Project and Programme Management at FindMyPast and the British Newspaper Archive will discuss finding the diaspora in newspapers. [Click to continue…]