Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Seminar 4 Posted 11 February 2021 by Karen Burnell Our final seminar in this series on Wednesday 17th February 2021 at 8pm (GMT) takes us back to newspapers, but this time exploring newspaper collections in National Libraries globally. Michelle Patient, Genealogist and DNA consultant for the Australian SBS TV series Every Family has a Secret, will take the subject In Print – Here, There and Everywhere to delve into this invaluable resource for researching our family histories. [Click to continue…]
Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Seminar 3 Posted 4 February 2021 by Karen Burnell Wednesday 10 February 2021 at 8pm (GMT) is the next date for your diary, when we will turn our attention to Ephemeral Names: printed ephemera as a resource for one-name historians with particular reference to the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. [Click to continue…]
Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Seminar 2 Posted 28 January 2021 by Karen Burnell Our second online seminar in our Ancestors in Print series focuses on newspapers. On Wednesday 3 February 2021 at 8pm (GMT), Aoife O’Connor, Head of Project and Programme Management at FindMyPast and the British Newspaper Archive will discuss finding the diaspora in newspapers. [Click to continue…]
Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Seminar 1 Posted 18 January 2021 by Karen Burnell Our online seminar series kicks off on Wednesday 27 January 2021 at 8pm (GMT), with a guided tour of Directories and Poll Books led by Else Churchill [Click to continue…]
Ancestors in Print Webinar Series Preview Posted 10 January 2021 by Karen Burnell Join us on Wednesday 27 January and the following three Wednesdays for our next online seminar series, this time looking at some of the more unusual print based resources available to one-namers. Seminars will start at 8.00pm London UK time, last for one hour, and include time to ask questions. [Click to continue…]