Our next meeting will be on the 4th of May and we will be looking at military history. Many will have had members of their family in various parts of the military and this time we will look particularly at Army records.
Last month we looked at Irish records and if anyone wants any notes from that meeting I have some copies available. There were several free websites which have quite an ammount of information, but it is very fragmented.
We are progressing with the analysis and presentation of the work we started a year ago. By June we hope to have a small booklet as the result of our research into the Censuses of 1841 – 1871. Our work will throw some light on the people of Lydiate in those years and provide a source of information for those researching their families in Lydiate during the period.
Friday 2nd March 13:30
Looking at the IGI, Latter Day Saints website and talking about maritime research. All welcome.
Lydiate Village Centre.
At our last meeting we looked at two websites commonly used by members. ‘Ancestry’ is the most widely used site and the family tree builder is a very useful part of this website. David Evans showed us the Ancestry disc he had purchased which enables you to download and store the details of your family safely.
Roy Ferguson has recently joined ‘Find my past’ and took us on a tour round that website. It has the advantage of having the full 1911 Census information.
In March we will have a look at the IGI website compiled by the Church of the Latter Day Saints; a very useful free website.
Friday 3rd February at 13.30 Lydiate Village Centre
We will consider the Ancestry and Find my Past websites and their respective merits.
We will also have our usual sharing of difficulties and discoveries where we learn from one another. We hope that new members may come along with some unusual problems.
Friday 6th January at 13.30
At this meeting we are asking members to bring their work along so that we can
share, in small groups, how we go about our research.
Friday 2oth january at 13:30
A working meeting on the Lydiate project on the 20th at 10 Daisy Mount.
We had a very entertaining presentation from Andrew Sackville about these studies. Anyone who wants to follow up information should go to this website www.one-name.org which will give further information. Andrew has been working on genealogy for many years and has amassed a great deal of information about web sites. He will return in the Autumn to talk to us about further sources of information.
Progress is being made on this project. We have completed the download of the census for 1841, 1851, and 1861 thanks to the hard work of many members, but particularly Graham Settle and Ray Sutton. At our last meeting members agreed to complete one more download of the 1871 census. This will give a good base for comparisons and hopefully to draw some patterns of what was occurring in Lydiate during those years. Once we have all the information we will have a few groups which will look at different aspects of the information and write up the outcomes.
Although we are not meeting until the beginning of October it does not mean we are idle. At our last meeting members agreed to work on a project to study the residents of Lydiate in the 19th Century. The initial process has been set out by Peter Marritt and Graham Settle has agreed to collate and analyse the information we collect. We are not sure where we will arrive with our work but the journey so far, according to those taking part, has been fun. We will keep you informed about our progress.