Another exciting new feature has been launched today in the shop.
You can now buy Gift Vouchers to spend on membership of the ociety. You can automatically send the details to a friend or relative, or have the details sent to yourself for passing on.
See Gift Vouchers for further details
Whilst Angela and I were at the U3A conference at Buxton in September, I spent sometime in discussion with this Manchester University project. they promised to keep in touch with any progress. It seemed at the time that they were going to release the results of their research fairly soon in a number of formats.
I received this email yesterday
"Hello to all of our collaborators, interviewees, and friends across the world!
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Have you investigated our RESEARCH MENU on our Website? Why not post a question on our Research Assistance Forums? Why not see if you can answer some of the queries here? Our Forum is for paid up members to ask for help. Only members can post questions but anyone can provide answers. There is an equivalent forum for non members who have simply signed up to try our website. Only non-members can post queries, but again anybody can reply to them. These are not a look-up service for members to ask FHSC to do research, you should use our research service (paid members only) for this. (also under our Research menu). They are for members and website users to assist each other We have so many experienced researchers amongst our membership, so join in the discussions. Somebody may be able to point you in the direction of just the nugget of information that is not available on the internet. You could make someone's day by giving them a push in the right direction. Always try and explain how to get to the information instead of just providing the data While you are still in the Research Menu think about adding your surnames and check if anyone else is researching the same surnames. For members these names can be from anywhere in the world. For non-members they are restricted to Chehshire We are also exchanging journals with about 25 other societies including in Canada and Australia. There is a large collection here available to members only. These are more than worth the cost of memberhsip NEW MENU in the RESEARCH SECTION to archive.org a digital archive of books and other periodicals and even speech archives. There are ten links here to show examples to start and more will be added over time I hope you find something of interest here. very best wishes Gay J Oliver Web Administration and Tameside Group Leader |
Meeting on Wednesday 13th November at Tameside
Chris O'Brien came to talk to us about Neville Cardus, long time cricket commentator for the Manchester Guardian and also Music Critic. His Book Cardus Uncovered: Neville Cardus: The Truth, The Untruth and The Higher Truth.
NC was born in Manchester the son of a prostitute and an unknown father - eventually receiving a knighthood in 1967. Chris availed himself of newly archived material here and in Australia to carefully create a timeline of Nevile's life, not helped that Neville went by 14 iterations of his name and pseudonyims and most of the other characters involved in his upringing also seemed to change their names at will. The story involves Breach of Promise, Divorce his favourite Aunt's assocciation with a Turkish consul and Neville's mistress.
Fascinating life and fascinating talk - Thank your Chris.
A perfect talk for Family Historians and Chris has agreed to be a speaker at any event the FHSC organises in 2020, conference, fair etc
Ruins Relics and Monsters. Public History and Placemaking in Cheshire and Beyond
Please be aware that the use of the large scale plotter for printing family trees (as advertised on the Mobberley Flyer) is no longer available at Mobberley. An updated copy of the flyer will be uploaded as soon as possible
This year for our GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY we held our AGM at the Lion Salt works at Northwich. It proved a very good format and an excellent venue. We had two excellent talks, one by David Thomas our Northwich Group leader all about the Anderton Boatlift where he had worked for several years. A Marveloous feat of engineering and a feature of the landscape fascinating to watch it in action. Our second talk was by Peter Solan all about the history and extrraction of salt in Cheshire; how it was laid down and created in the first place and the vast millions of tons lying underneath Cheshire. I was particularly interested in his study of the linguistics of the word SALT prefixed SAL this side of Europe and over the Alps prefixed HAL.
The museum has an intersting shop with many books and crystals for sale. Somee of us ate lunch atthe Salt barge Pub across the road. and after the afternoon talk wa a complimentary cream tea.
The business of our AGM was failry short and brief, with a report from our retiring Chairman, Victoria. All the very best for you travels. our webmaster, Alan Bennett, was voted in as our new Chairman. He has done the job before so knows what is expected. He will continue as our Webmaster and will see us through a period of change for Family History Societies.
We also presented Ian Hartas with a lifelong membership for all his years of work creating and implementing the UKBMD project now covering eleven geographical areas of the UK. Thank you Ian.
Family History Open Day
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Victoria Road, Macclesfield will be holding a family history open day on Saturday 9th November 2019 from 10.00am to 4.00pm. The Macclesfield group of the Family Histroy Society of Cheshire will be represented. See below for details.
For your information- we have updated our web site at stg.org.uk as part of the requirements of receiving a Lottery Grant. It now includes details of the registers of both New St George and Old St George and war grave details. Some of the results will be patched through to Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website
Regards Alan Smith Webmaster for St Georges Church
A brand new publication for those with an interest in Alsager.
The output of a very professional project to document and verify the memorials in great detail.
https://www.fhsc.org.uk/products-2/downloads/download-christ-church-alsager-mi
its available for download now for £6.
FHSC sends lots of emails to our members and website users for a multitude of reasons.
We deliver them through a professional email service provider called Elastic Email.
It has come to my attention that a reasonable number of our emails arentbeing delivered because Elastic Email have got a block on some of your email addresses.
If you find you are not receiving any emails from us then please use the following link to re-enable delivery to you:
https://api.elasticemail.com/contact/subscribe?version=2&pID=f65a4548-8a8a-42d5-994c-721c718b57f8
You just provide your email address and then you will then recieve an email with another link in it. Clicking on that link will confirm to Elastic Email that you wish to receive emails from FHSC.
You can control the types of emails you get from us at:
https://www.fhsc.org.uk/?Itemid=9222
The other issue is that we still hold lots of invalid email addresses for a number of you. These are primarily caused by:
- you not having provided one
- ones provided by email providers that are no longer in existence, e.g. wanadoo and fsnet
Please log in and check your details as soon as possible at:
https://www.fhsc.org.uk/new-my-membership/my-profile-2#login-details
Regards
Alan
Webmaster
Over the last week I have added about 70 new downloads to the online shop, Sales are going very well.
Hopefully you will find some items of interest.
We held our 50th Anniversary AGM yesterday at the Lion Salt Works.
During the meeting our chairman, Victoria Doran, stood down as she has decided to spend the next 18 months touring the world. I am sure we all send our good wishes for what should be a fantastic experience for Victoria.
I have been elected to fill the void as chairman, a role I previously held from 2008 until 2012.
I will also continue as webmaster and hope that I can find the necessary time for both roles.
I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in my new role.
My main focus will be how to restructure the society to provide what members need and our survival through turbulent times for family history societies.
Kind Regards
Alan Bennett
Chairman and Webmaster