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…]
December Special – Evernote Webinar Posted 9 December 2020 by Melody McKay BurtonDo you have a resolution to become more organised in 2021? Find out how Evernote can help you. Evernote is the best known of a family of recent technology tools. It helps users with note taking, organising, task management and archiving. Its usefulness for genealogy has been recognised by many in recent years. Phil Isherwood [Click to continue…]
Persons of Interest – Dr David SACKETT Posted 17 November 2020 by Julie GoucherDr David Sackett, pioneer of clinical epidemiology David Sackett MD (1934–2015) was a Canadian medical doctor and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine who proved that aspirin helps prevent heart attacks. He founded the department of clinical epidemiology at McMaster University, Ontario, in 1967. Later in his career, recognising his pre-eminence in the field, he was awarded a professorship at Oxford [Click to continue…]