Forwarded with permission. To book, please call Lorraine Hardman, Events Co-ordinator, 020 7553 3290 or email events@sog.org.uk -------- Original Message ------- Places still available for the following dates: Please call 020 7553 3290 or email events@sog.org.uk to book. 1. Thursday 14 July 2005. Visit: Guildhall Library, London, with Kathy Elam. [sorry about short notice] 2. Saturday 16 July 2005. 10:30 The Census: Online and on CD-ROM. A tutorial with John Hanson. 3. Saturday 16 July 2005. 14:00 What you need to know about MH12 (poor law commissioners' correspondence) A tutorial with Marjorie Moore. 4. Monday 18 July 2005. Routes to Roots: The SoG's 2 week summer school introducing major sources and repositories for family historians. With various lecturers, tutorials, and visits. More information about these events: 1. Thursday 14 July 2005. Visit: Guildhall Library, London, with Kathy Elam. Corporation of London, Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury London EC2: Meet at the entrance at the venue in time to start at 2.30pm. Nearest tubes are St Paul's and Moorgate and Bank and Liverpool Street are not far. There are a number of buses that go along Cheapside. The Guildhall Library is next to the Guildhall and is well signposted. The Guildhall Library is the Record Office for the City of London (apart from the Corporation of London Records which are elsewhere) and they have documents going back to the 11th Century including: · Ecclesiastical and probate records · Archives of City wards and parishes · Records of around 80 of the City livery companies · City business and commercial records We will be given an introductory talk, taken on a tour of the printed books collection, shown the manuscript Section and shown some particular examples, taken to the Prints and Maps Section and shown how their image database works. The whole tour should take about 1½ hours. NB there is a maximum of 15 people on this tour but we can arrange for a further trip if demand is high Saturday 16 July 2005. 10:30 The Census: Online and on CD-ROM. A tutorial with John Hanson. Biography: John Hanson John Hanson has recently retired after over 30 years with one of the country's leading banks. He has had an interest in family history for over 20 years and in computers relating to family history for the last 15 years. He is a Committee member, and Chairman of the Family History Show Working Group. John regularly lectures and writes on computer-based family history. He has just been elected a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists. Census Online Outline: Think you've mastered the censuses online or on CD? This lecture reveals some of the techniques you may not have tried for finding your elusive ancestors. It looks at the 1861 to 1901 census inclusive, now available online for much if not all of England & Wales. Saturday 16 July 2005. 14:00 What you need to know about MH12 (poor law commissioners' correspondence) A tutorial with Marjorie Moore. Biography: Marjorie R Moore Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Society of Genealogists for four years 1996-2000, was founding General Secretary of Wiltshire Family History Society, now Vice President. Visiting speaker to Conferences and Societies including Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the USA. Consultant to Reader's Digest for their book "Explore Your Family's Past". Compiler of Sources for Scottish Genealogy in the Library of the Society of Genealogists. MH12 Tutorial Outline: He poor relief system came to a crisis at the beginning of the 19th century and resulted in the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. The Act gave national direction in English Poor Law and transformed the system of local government that had lasted for centuries and at this time the large union Workhouses came into being. Offices of the Poor Law Commissioners were set up in London and it is their records and correspondence with local Poor Law Unions that will be discussed. The first session will illustrate what the records are, how to find them and examples of what they contain. The second session will show more examples and involve audience participation. Monday 18 July 2005, 10:30, Routes to Roots: The SoG's 2 week summer school introducing major sources and repositories for family historians. With various lecturers, tutorials and visits. The Society's Summer School offers a practical introduction to the major repositories in the "golden triangle" of family history. There will be lectures at the Society of Genealogists premises looking at the various sources. Later the group will re-assemble at an appropriate record office for a short tour. There will then be a chance to have an orientation from the lecturers or a member of staff from the record office and to use the indexes and finding aids. However in addition to any searches that students might wish to undertake for themselves there will be set exercises devised to find particular information. These are intended to exemplify specific aspects of the sources that may not have been found in an individual's own research. Generally each repository prefers a maximum of about 15 persons for any such group and this will be the maximum number of spaces available on the course. Society of Genealogists 14 Charterhouse Buildings Goswell Road LONDON EC1M 7BA 5 minutes walk from Barbican Station, a few minutes longer from Farringdon, various buses. To book, please call Lorraine Hardman, Events Co-ordinator, 020 7553 3290 or email events@sog.org.uk Courses, regional fairs and details of library holdings per county are listed at http://www.sog.org.uk You may also find it useful to occasionally visit GENEVA - http://geneva.weald.org.uk GENEVA is a joint GENUKI/FFHS list of GENealogical EVents and Activities which often has dates and venues stretching twelve months (or more) ahead - SoG events included!