29th March 2003
9:00-16:30
Impington Village College
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The Cambridge Explorer is an Interactive guide to Cambridge, it’s Colleges, Churches, Streets & much more over the last 130 years. Produced by Hugo Brown and in association with the Cambridgeshire Collection. Over 1,000 high resolution photographs both New & Old starting from 1870. 5 Major Categories Include: Streets, Colleges, Churches, Public Houses & Trades. 500 Photographs have been supplied by The Cambridgeshire Collection. 3 Highly Detailed Cambridge Maps. The W.P. Spalding Maps of Cambridge for 1904, 1924 and 1949 have been included. A full street index for 1949 links direct to the correct section of the map. 5 Interactive Tours. There are tours of the town centre using the 1904 W.P Spalding map as a guide. Including colleges, churches & pubs and two city centre tours, one around the turn of 20th century and the other around the turn of the Millennium. 14,555 People & Businesses Included in the 1904 Street Directory. The complete W.P. Spalding Street Directory of Cambridge for 1904 has been fully indexed in 10 different ways: indexes of Pages, Streets, Surnames, Advertisements, Businesses, Churches, Colleges, Occupations, House Names and Public Houses. Each index entry includes a direct hyperlink to the colour facsimile of the original page of the Directory.

The Cambridgeshire Explorer is not to be confused with the original Cambridge Explorer CD. It's was a mammoth project which covers "Old" Cambridgeshire. There are approximately 1,700 photographs (1,000 from the Cambridgeshire Collection) with indexing within a "photo-album" which allows you to look at all the photographs in order without having to go back and forth from the indexes.

There are 189 different locations listed on the CD covering all but the smallest hamlets. There are photos of nearly every church in the old county and there are a large selection of schools, public houses, railway stations and village signs,

There are at least 4 different maps. The main one being the Kelly's 1904 map that has been fully hyper linked from the map to the individual locations of which there are 189 listed on the CD. There are also 2 railway maps and a Cambridge Street map.

Family Tree and Chart Printers, they would like to be involved in the design of your Printed Family Tree. They offer you the opportunity of a fully printed chart. They can print an All in One full family tree containing every person on your tree. A single person ancestor tree, from today back through all of the ancestors, or a Descendant Tree.You have a choice of font colour, and many different background colours. How about a wallpaper, a Coat of Arms or a photo of your choice. You even decide what information to have in the boxes. Your tree will look fabulous and will be printed in full colour.

Their website: www.genealogyprinters.com

M.W. Microfilm Supplies have been established over 19 years and are the market leaders in supplying equipment for genealogical use. They believe that they are the No.1 Supplier to Genealogists for Fiche Readers & Accessories

Their website: www.mw-microfilm.co.uk

Now you have found that elusive ancestor and you have a place name the next logical question is what does the place look like? What did it look like? Footsteps offer you old postacrds and photographs and a wide range of towns and villages throughout the UK.

MM Publications publish a wide and interesting range of Directories and other lists for researchers at an affordable cost. You will find material ranging from the well known Kelly's directories of Counties and local towns published since the mid 1800's to Army, Navy and RAF lists, and some even rarer material such as the Boer War intelligence report detailing farms and owners near Pretoria. Many of the directories and lists that have been republished are scarce and found in only a few specialist libraries.

Their website: www.mmpublications.co.uk

The Society publishes and sells a wide range of books, maps, microfiche, computer software, and genealogical data on CD-ROM. With over 6000 items in stock, the bookshop is the largest of its kind in the UK. The mobile bookshop covers the country at various exhibitions and family history fairs. If you want help in finding the best ways to research then they will have a book to help you. Various Census and Street Directories are also available on CD-Rom.

Their website: www.sog.org.uk

A personal service offering simple, economical printing of small booklets, journals, newsletters and catalogues for individuals, societies, and small businesses. For larger customers we can offer a distribution service direct to your members with significant discounts on postage.

Parchment are an Oxford based printing firm specialising in small runs. They have an Internet service called PrintUK.

PrintUK is a subsidiary of Parchment (Oxford) Limited, located in Oxford England. All work is done 'in house', from typesetting and scanning to magazines or perfect binding. Parchment have specialised in the production of short run booklets since opening in 1962. Such a long history in booklet work means there is a rich mixture of conventional reprographic technology and the very latest digital technology.

All work carried out by either PrintUK or its parent company Parchment has a full money back guarantee - If you’re not completely satisfied with your order simply return it for a full refund!

Their estimators are highly skilled and final prices never vary from our written quotations. They won't confuse you with jargon and they don't miss deadlines. Work is accepted in almost any format, from handwritten manuscript to most forms of electronic media. They are as happy to print directly from your laser prints as they are to typeset and produce film. Photographs can be supplied on disk, prints, transparencies or negatives.

Their customer service department will be pleased to discuss your requirements and present you with all your options and free estimates for each.

Their Website: www.printuk.com

Illustrate your family history with old postcards of the churches where your ancestors were baptised, married, and buried. Specialist service for family historians by a family historian. Established 13 years. Send a stamped, addressed envelope to receive details of their postal service.

The study of surname distribution is a fascinating exercise, and knowledge of the origin of the name may help in determining where to look for one's family roots, aided by a Surname Distribution Map from RootsMap.

They specialise in retracing your family's historical origin. Simply provide them with your family name and leave the rest to them. They will then provide you with a thoroughly researched Surname Distribution Map, showing your family's place of origin within the United Kingdom. These maps are available in two distinct packages - Researcher or Presentation. Their expert staff use research techniques that are translated onto their high - tech computers to produce a surname distribution map.

Their website: www.rootsmap.com

Internet Bookmarks Family History Services deal in the following products:

• Family History Data storage software
• Directories on CD-ROMs
• Books and Guides
• Parish Locating Floppy disks and CD-ROMs
• Paper based items (Census forms, Beginners forms etc.)
• Other software items
• Beginners Starter Kit
  

Their website: www.ibfhs.com

CAB Search Ltd provides a wide range of services for those interested in locating their ancestors and their surroundings.

They can provide a full family research service, and can trace your ancestors or descendents anywhere.
They can start at any point and work in any required direction.

But if you are already undertaking your search they can help provide additional content using multimedia.

Their website: www.cab-search.co.uk

'GENFILE' has been specifically designed to over come the problem of available space in county record offices, libraries, the Public Record Office at Kew and especially the Family Record Centre at Myddelton Street.

These places are becoming more and more crowded and, as a consequence, there is very little room to layout and use large files and notebooks. The various forms and folder have been designed to help with this. These are in a compact size and will fit a Filofax or similar personal organiser.

There is also a green folder which is also made especially for these forms. Available at fairs and by post from: G W Research, 2 Burleigh Road, St Ives Cambs PE27 3DF.

Samples available on receipt of a stamped addressed envelope and 3 x 1st class stamps.

Starter pack and folder available for 14 pounds, this includes p&p. Contains 5 of each of the forms GR1 to GR21, plus 1 of each of GM2, GM3 and GM6. Cheques payable to G W Research.

Back To Roots is a well established Company and now a market leader in Family History. They specialise in the sales of most major family history programs including Family Tree Maker, Generations etc. They also carry one of the largest ranges of data cd's, disks and fiche to be found. These include census, trade and street directories, will indexes, electoral rolls, criminal registers and muster rolls to name just a few.

They also stock a very wide range of acid free goods such as certificate and photo binders and polypockets, pens and acid free glue to to store those valuable old documents safely for future generations.

Back to Roots has an extremely large selection of books written by most of the famous authors such as Dr Colin Chapman and Eve McLaughlin as well as its own very popular products which include ancestor charts and wheels, research recording packs, books and record cards.

Their website: www.backtoroots.co.uk

Creative Memories is an international photo-safe album-making company with over 65,000 consultants worldwide. Our mission is to preserve the past, enrich the present and inspire hope for the future through the collection, preservation and display of family photographs and memorabilia. We teach classes, hold regular workshops and supply all the products necessary to help you put together albums of your photographs and the stories behind them which are important to you, your families and future generations. We look forward to your visit.

Their website: www.creativememories.com

Andy Murkin - CDs containing The Illustrated Tour of Burwell part 1,2, and 3. - Website: www.fortspring.co.uk

Bill Bennett - Old Postcards