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Meetings

The Society organises monthly meetings in Cambridge, through the Programme Orgainser, on a wide variety of topics, which are designed to appeal to beginner and specialist alike. These also provide the opportunity for members to chat to fellow enthusiasts, browse through the latest additions to the Society Library and purchase books from the Society Bookstall. Reports of meetings are published in the Journal for those unable to attend.

There are also special meetings for the Computer Group this is often followed by a lecture in the afternoon. There are now a branches in March which holds regular meetings, details can be found on the March Branch page and Central Cambridge (St Laurence Church) to be found on the St Laurence Branch page.

Programme from January to December 2009

Venue: Glebe School, Girton, Cambridge, CB3 0PN
(click on link for a map)
Day of week: Saturday

11:00 - 13:00 - Computer Club
13:00 - 14:00 - Family History Assistance including access to Ancestry.com
14:00 - 15:00 - Lecture (see below)

Visitors Welcome.

There is parking on the school playground.
Take the lane to the right of the Community Centre car park.

Date
Topic Speaker/Venue
  2009    
Sat 10 January 2009 ‘Companion to Owls - a novel of the fens’ (about a Huguenot family) Tessa West
Sat 14 February 2009 ‘Victorian Cambridge’ Mike Petty
  27 February
to 1 March
2009 Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2009 At Olympia
Sat 14 March 2009 ‘A Very Different War’ The Story of an Evacuee sent to America during WW2 Louise Milbourne
Sat 4 April 2009 ‘Was your Ancestor a Bastard?’ (Note this was originally 11th April - date has changed) Gill Shapland
Sat 9 May 2009 30 years as a Country Doctor Neville Silverston
Sat 13 June 2009 Bletchley Park Hugh Davies
  July and August 2009 No meeting  
Sat 12 September 2009
Transportation - Prisoners being sent to other parts of the world after committing crimes
Doug Carstairs
Sat 10 October 2009 Victorian Domestic Servants Liz Carter
Sat 14 November 2009
Traditions and Superstitions for an English Christmas
Brian Jones
Sat 12 December 2009
The Cambridge Sixties Scene - An in depth look at the Cambridge music scene during the sixties
Fonz Chamberlain

Conferences

The Society has organised day conferences at various Cambridgeshire venues but there are no plans currently to organise one. It also participates in other conferences on an ad hoc basis, such as those run by the East Anglian Group of Family History Societies.

Speakers

If you can speak on a topic which would be of interest to the Society and you can make a meeting on a Wednesday night then please contact us so we can arrange this. Email: Programme Organiser

Previous Talks


Last Updated on: 18 March, 2009
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