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BerksFHS Windsor, Slough & Maidenhead Branch Meetings Programme

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Sep 2008 to Aug 2009	Details of this Branch

BerksFHS Windsor, Slough & Maidenhead Branch Programme Sep 2009 to Aug 2010
Date	Subject	Speaker
Tue, 29th Sep 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Ten good reasons to visit the Hyde Park Record Centre The largest LDS (Mormons) family history centre in Europe having a remarkable family history collection of not only English but Irish, Scottish, Caribbean and East European records	Sharon Hintze
Tue, 27th Oct 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Map YOUR Past Maps play a vital part in visualising where our ancestors lived & we can link centuries old maps to those of today	Alan Ruston
Tue, 24th Nov 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Victorian Shopping A little retail therapy in time for Christmas. No supermarkets, no internet but even so, we can recognise many names	Tony King
Tue, 8th Dec 2009	Christmas Dinner offsite
Tue, 26th Jan 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	How to use DNA tests to help your FH research Much has been said and written about using DNA to establish possible family links. Chris will guide us through some of the tests and how to interpret them	Chris Pomery
Tue, 23rd Feb 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	Non-combatants and others: the home front during WW1 How the war impacted those left behind, especially loved ones — a look at how they coped: visual imagery with live music	Christine Kendell
Tue, 30th Mar 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	An evening helping to overcome obstacles and brick walls Initially in groups according to subject (census, finding burials, parish records, etc.) then a more general discussion of results	Windsor members
Tue, 27th Apr 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	Family Legends – true or false – what do you reckon? Given a number of family legends we use our knowledge and skills to help Bob establish whether they were true or not	Bob Adams
Tue, 25th May 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	The Breadwinner Looking at a range of occupations, professions and industry and where we might search for the records. The talk follows a short Annual Meeting.	Meryl Catty
Tue, 29th Jun 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	The 1911 Census Ins and Outs of the Census and how to get the best from it	Audrey Collins
Tue, 27th Jul 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	Villages and their Friendly Societies Villagers relied on these Societies in times of need – some were weird and wonderful!	Tom Doig
August 2010 7.15 for 7:45pm	No meeting
Meetings are normally held on the last Tuesday in the month (except August and December) in Christ Church United Reformed Church William Street, Windsor SL4 1BA   Our location is indicated by an arrow on the map at www.streetmap.co.uk. Meetings usually end at about 9:30pm.

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