Ann, Thank you for your very kind words. I wouldn't normally push myself, but seeing as you have already mentioned it, here goes. Yes, I am giving a talk at this month's NFHS meeting, next Wednesday the 20th, at their meeting room at the New Mechanics Hall on North Sherwood Street. Although my talk is about my grandfather, it does incorporate an insight into a social problem in the late 1920s,1930s, and 1940s in Nottingham, which was also nationwide. I found this from researching my grandfather's life through British Newspapers on line (Find my past site) and discovered something I hitherto knew nothing about. This should be of interest to all. My grandfather's life could also be described as "interesting and colourful!" Tonight I am also doing this talk in my adopted home of Loughborough. This will be the first time I have done this, or indeed any Family History talk, and whilst used to standing up in front of people thanks to amateur dramatics, I am still a bit nervous. Brian Binns -----Original Message----- From: nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nottsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ann Bassford Sent: 12 November 2013 08:25 To: NOTTSGEN-L Subject: [NTT] Notts FHS Virus A very big 'thank you' to all who replied. I came back from a few days away and saw 16 messages from all the friendly NottsGen folks, giving all different sorts of advice. As a rule I would normally delete these straight away, but now I have found out that there doesn't seem to be any of you who are members of Notts FHS. What a pity; there is an excellent speaker this month by the name of Brian who will talk about his 'Entrepreneurial Ancestor', wish I could be there. I have been to 3 of their meetings when over in the UK including one talk on the dialects of Derbyshire and the East Midlands called 'Ey up mi duck' by John Titford. He was so interesting I bought the book. Thanks again, Ann :-) Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message