This page consists of useful information regarding family history to help you with your research.
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Resources For Palaeography
This hand-out gives the location of books about handwriting in the OU Library, and also gives links to Internet palaeography sites.
Resources for reading handwriting
Here is the powerpoint presentation on palaeography that Ruth Cammies delivered on the 19th May 2006. The presentation has been slightly edited to remove copyrighted material.
Amanda recently attended a session on agricultural labourers at the Family History Fair in London. Here are Amanda's notes from the session.
This presentation was given at the club meeting on the 7th July 2006. You can also access the websites from the links page.
Here is the powerpoint display from the Civil Registration session run by Ruth and Amanda on the 15th September 2006. We have had to remove images of certificates due to copyright restrictions.
Marilyn, one of our members, has kindly put together this useful list of links for members researching Gloucestershire families.
Gloucestershire online resources
Malcolm Fowles' presentation on using maps for family history.
Note: Some of the links within Malcolm's presentation do not work as they originally linked to documents on his PC.
And now for something slightly different...
Amanda discovered this document and we think it is so good we are adding it to the site! If you have any comments feel free to add them to the discussion board!!
Here is Roger's presentation about his research. The presentation has been edited to remove third party content.
Bastardy presentation by Roger Moore
Here are some of the handouts from Amanda's workshop in September 2009.
