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BerksFHS Windsor, Slough & Maidenhead Branch Programme
Sep 2004 to Aug 2005

Date Subject Speaker
Tue, 28th Sep 2004
7.30 for 7.45pm
Memorials, monuments and gravestones
Derek Palgrave
Tue, 26th Oct 2004
7.30 for 7.45pm
Tithes and taxes
A veritable shopping list of name lists for 1600s & 1700s. It covers a lot of ground & everyone has ancestors in some of the lists
Michael Gandy
Tue, 30th Nov 2004
7.30 for 7.45pm
Using a digital camera in Family History
See your research come alive with digital photography and a peek at the restoration of pictures & the stages involved
Stuart Mann
Tue, 7th Dec 2004
7.30 for 7.45pm
Annual Dinner
at The Wheatsheaf Old Windsor
Venue to be confirmed. Book place with branch.


Tue, 25th Jan 2005
7.30 for 7.45pm
Murder at Burnham Abbey in 1853  – an update      
A re-run from last May including fresh evidence and clues. A salutary lesson for researchers in getting back to basics
Pauline Hodges
Valerie Storie
Tue, 22nd Feb 2005
7.30 for 7.45pm
Birth and Baptism in the 1800s
A birth was steeped in mystery and tradition – how the folklore even affects our way of life in the 21st century
Tom Doig
Tue, 29th Mar 2005
7.30 for 7.45pm
Miscellany – Q&A session for those against a brick wall
Update on previous queries - also a mixture of hands-on light-hearted puzzles to test your FH skills and ingenuity!!

Tue, 26th Apr 2005
7.30 for 7.45pm
Berkshire – Beyond the Obvious
Unusual places and unexpected objects are all there
if only we look around us and keep our eyes open
Trevor Ottlewski
Tue, 31st May 2005
7.30 for 7.45pm
Short AGM
followed by
Computer evening
looking at the many records on-line (BMD, Wills, Photos, Maps, PRs etc).



Chad Hanna and Gillian Stevens
Tue, 28th Jun 2005
7.30 for 7.45pm
The Royal Mail Archives
History of the Royal Mail and a look at available records
in an archive dating from 1636 to the present day
Laura Peaurt
Tue, 26th Jul 2005
7.30 for 7.45pm
History under the Carpet
Story of our ancestors as revealed on monumental brasses and illustrated with a collection of brass rubbings

Ken Surman
August 2005 No meeting
Meetings are normally held on the last Tuesday in the month
(except August and December) in
Christ Church United Reformed Church
William Street, Windsor SL4 1BA
 

Our location is indicated by an arrow on the map at www.streetmap.co.uk.

Meetings usually end at about 9:30pm.

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