December 2014 Meeting This month we held a Do it Yourself meeting with each member doing their own research, we have now moved downstairs to the Lower Meeting Room for all future Meetings. For our January Meeting I will be talking about how to research for WWI ancestors on various web sit November 2014 Meeting We had a presentation and talk onThe Guild of One Name Studies  known byus family history nuts as (GOONS) given by Sheila Clarkson, a member of the StAustell U3A Family History Group, Sheila has been researching her family historyfor many years, then decided to register her maiden name of Fermer with theGuild to do a One name Study herself, this involves people around the worldwith this name (not necessarily her own family) sending their details to her,  Sheila keeps records of all contacts andinformation given to her by them, she has even put families who are related(but not to her)  in contact with eachother, on one occasion a family inGermany with relatives in South America, they met up in Germany a few years agoand are still in contact today. She hasalso organised a family name reunion with people coming from around the worldto attend, in her presentation were photographs of the reunion, Sheila finds itvery rewarding, and we found it very interesting, putting a different slant on our family names.  I hope the group have beenchecking out the Guild’s website  to seeif any of the names they are researching are listed, they may even findrelatives of their own they never knew existed. Our next meeting is 11th December October 2014 This meeting had to be cancelled September 2014 Meeting  At this meeting we talked and looked at a Genealogy Forumnamed Rootschat, (I do go on about it a lot at Meetings), if you are faced witha brick wall, you can submit the details on the Forum , then other people whoview this Forum (worldwide) can help you with ideasor even have the information you require to solve your brickwall. I personallyhave had some fantastic results to some of my queries, therefore I thought thismay help the group with their research. I was going to ask the group at theOctober meeting if they had used the site and if they had any interesting  results, but unfortunatelythe October Meeting had to be cancelled.  In November we are having a speaker who will do a talk on theGuild of One Name Studies (GOONS) this is another aspect on family names. Update July and August 2014 We are having  a break for the summer our next meeting is September 11th Although we had no Family History Meetings during July and August, we did have a bring and share get together lunch at my home in August. Unfortunately the  weather was not kind to us so we couldn’t eat in the garden, but were we downhearted,  no!,  we had lots to eat an drink, baguettes, cheese, cooked meats, salad, dips and scrumptious desserts,  wine, soft drinks, tea and coffee, we did a lot of chatting, and laughing till late afternoon. I hope the group enjoyed it as much as I did.  Update June 2014 This month we discussed some interesting findings we have found in our research, Christine found 2 members of her family (not a direct line) had been hung for murder at Bodmin jail, she transcribed the newspaper report and read part of it to us, it gave a very interesting insight to their last night in prison, the article said that thousands came from all over Cornwall to see the hanging. Sue brought in a tape of a family member who was talking about what life was like for him, her family are lucky to have this special memorabilia. All in all it was a very interesting meeting. Update May 2014 This month we had another very interesting talk from Peter Finlay our thanks go to him. Update March 2014 At the March meeting we listened to a Podcast from The National Archives about "Finding lost Ancestors and knocking down brick walls" the talk lasted about 45 mins there was a lot of helpful information on trying to solve the problems we all come up against with our research, it is very frustrating when you just can't find the records you are looking for, the group then used their laptops to put the ideas into practice, hopefully some brick walls and lost ancestors will now be found. Update February 2014 We have moved our venue for all future meetings to the Community Centre. During January I circulated the marriage certificate details of my late in laws and asked the group to find the relevant information for the birth year of the bride and groom, brides mother's name and any other information they could find quite a few had a go. At the meeting I helped them find the information from the certificate, of which there are at least 4 things wrong, the Community Centre has WIFI  many members brought along their laptops/devices so they could then search for the details themselves, they could see how different web sites gave the information, one not at all, I hope it helped them with their searching skills,  it made the meeting more interesting for them rather than me doing a presentation and just showing the results to them. Update January 2014 December we had a very nice lunch at Lanhydrock House, thanks to Lin Briggs for organising it. January saw our 1st Birthday I made a cake as a celebration, see photo below.  Martin downloaded some Cornish Records which we then viewed, there was some interesting reading amongst it. Later we chatted about what the group would like to do in the coming months.
Update 14/11/2013 We had a very interesting talk and presentation given by Ann Hicks entitled "Written in words of stone" about headstones and churchyards, Ann is a very entertaining, knowledgeable  speaker, I learnt a lot as I'm sure many members did also. There is NO meeting in December. we meet again January 9th 2014 Update 10/10/2013 At the October meeting we chatted about the research we have been during the glorious summer. |
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