Tuesday 6 September 2016

5 week course from Northumberland and Durham Family History Society

Northumberland and Durham Family History Society (www.ndfhs.org.uk) is running a five week long family history course from September 14th - October 12th at its Library and Research Centre, Percy House, Newcastle, England. The price is £35.

From the society's website:

The aim of the course is to enable you to:
  • learn how to extract information from the basic records;
  • develop the skills to enable you to link one record to another to help advance your knowledge of your ancestors;
  • understand how to record the information accrued through your research;
  • build your family tree.

Dates:
14th September 2016 (Week 1)
Introduction to the course; Civil Registration

21st September 2016 (Week 2)
Parish Registers

28th September 2016 (Week 3)
Census Returns 1841-1911

5th October 2016 (Week 4)
Trade Directories, Electoral Registers, and Newspapers

12th October 2016 (Week 5)
Wills

Timetable:
10.30 am to 12.30 pm—Instruction as above
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm—Using the Society’s Percy House facilities with support
Course Fee: £35.00 payable by cheque to “NDFHS”


To make a booking:
Please contact The Librarian by email: librarian@ndfhs.org.uk by phone: 0191 261 2159 or 0191 284 1678

(With thanks to News Post leader at http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/news/local/society-offers-family-history-course-1-8094908)

Chris

For details on my genealogy guide books, including A Decade of Irish Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-1923Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition), Discover Irish Land Records and Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis, please visit http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-books.html.

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