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BerksFHS Windsor, Slough & Maidenhead Branch Meetings Programme

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BerksFHS Windsor, Slough & Maidenhead Branch Programme Sep 2008 to Aug 2009
Date	Subject	Speaker
Tue, 30th Sep 2008 7.15 for 7:45pm	Suicide Such action can leave a legacy of guilt with family and friends. What does this tell us about life in the past.	Kathy Chater
Tue, 28th Oct 2008 7.15 for 7:45pm	Upstairs, Downstairs Many of us find male or female domestic servants in our families – what were their lives like – what did the records hide	Ian Waller
Tue, 25th Nov 2008 7.15 for 7:45pm	Where there’s a will you’re away Did they leave a Will? This could give you so much information on children, marriages, how they lived.	Jeanne Bunting
Tue, 9th Dec 2008	Christmas Dinner offsite venue and details to be confirmed	__
Tue, 27th Jan 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Researching Victorian Soldiers An introduction to researching our Victorian military men using the records available at TNA	David Chilton
Tue, 24th Feb 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Researching before Civil Registration How to research your family before 1837 using parish records and how to look for clues about where they lived etc	Kirsty Grey
Tue, 31st Mar 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Our Research Centre in Reading The Centre houses the “Jewels in Berkshire FHS Crown” - An illustrated talk by the Research Centre Manager.	Arthur Beech
Tue, 28th Apr 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Wheelwrights and Blacksmiths – old occupations Ted is a real ‘old fashioned’ wheelwright and tells many a tale about the lives of these vital craftsmen in village life	Edward (Ted) Fox
Tue, 26th May 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Film Archives for the Family Historian Is it possible your ancestors are on film or sound recordings? - Sources to look out for. Follows a short Branch Annual Meeting	Kathy Chater
Tue, 30th Jun 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Widow’s thirds, bench or dower – married women’s property What happened to the wife when her husband died? Covers land, estates, buildings, manorial records and so on	Eve McLaughlin
Tue, 28th Jul 2009 7.15 for 7:45pm	Amelia Dyer - The Reading Baby Farmer The Custodian of the TVPolice Museum returns to tell us how the infamous ‘baby farmer’ looked after the babies and then systematically murdered them	Ken Wells
August 2009	No meeting in August
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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