Family History Federation

Two weeks to go! The Really Useful Show is going LIVE! We're coming to PRONI, Belfast on Saturday 23rd August. #FamilyHistory #ReallyUsefulShow #Genealogy www.familyhistoryfederation.com/fhf-really-u...

Delve into 80 new newspaper titles | Blog This Findmypast Friday, enjoy a bumper addition to our newspaper archive, two new Irish resources, plus improvements to our vast collection of crime records.

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

At @findmypast.bsky.social this week

🚩Irish Memorials Association Published Baptisms
🚩Irish Memorials Association Published Marriages
🚩England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment [updated]

Full details in blog 👉 www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/80-...

Member Peter COCKER asks:

I would be pleased to hear from anybody who has an interest in the Cocker family or associated families, as I am collating a family history and any information they can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Please get in touch and I will pass on your details

#NWKFHS

Updates to Ancestry for week ending 8/8/2025 Suffolk, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1949; Suffolk, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812; Suffolk, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-1999; Suffolk, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1924; Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, Church Records, 1840-1899; Newcastle and Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, City Directories and Residency Records, 1866-1901; New South Wales, Australia, Mineworker Fatalities, 1869-1939; New South Wales, Australia, List of Convicts and Deserters, 1790-1868; New South Wales, Australia, Early Newspaper Index, 1828-1919; New South Wales, Australia, Occupation Records, 1832-1921.

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

At #Ancestry this week, new UK parish records from #Suffolk

🚩𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬/𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐬, 𝟏𝟕𝟓𝟒-𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟗
🚩 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐬/𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬/𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝟏𝟓𝟑𝟖-𝟏𝟖𝟏𝟐
🚩𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬/𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝟏𝟖𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗
🚩𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐬/𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐬, 𝟏𝟖𝟏𝟑-𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟒

Full list of all updates in screenshot with Alt Text as usual

New & updated titles at the BNA Part 1 Coventry Times; Wiltshire News; Walsall Football News; Fireside Companion; Marlborough Times; Bradford Record; Bradford Socialist Vanguard; Illustrated Berwick Journal; Weekly Times & Echo (London); Irish Field.

New and updated titles at the BNA Part 2 - Prestson Guardian; Coventry Reporter and General Advertiser; Home News for India, China and the Colonies; Colonial Guardian (Belize); Northern Chronicle and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland; Irish News and Belfast Morning News; Leinster Leader; Northern Times and Weekly Journal for Sutherland and the North; Sussex Daily News; Yorkshire Evening News.

New and updated titles at the BNA, Part 3 Morning Advertiser; Waterford Citizen; Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail; Leamington Advertiser and Beck's List of Visitors; East Kent Times

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

At the BNA this week, nothing for #Cheshire but titles of interest from

#Bradford #Coventry #Preston

Full list of new and updates titles in screenshots below with Alt Text as ususal

New Records on FamilySearch August 2025 • FamilySearch FamilySearch adds millions of free historical records every month. See new records from Italy, Costa Rica, Brazil and more!

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

New Free Historical Records from 6 Countries
Family Search's August 2025 Update

Link 👉 www.familysearch.org/en/blog/new-...

A Fascinating visit earlier this week to the workhouse and hospital at Southwell, Nottinghamshire. It was still in use in the 1970s as a home for homeless families although the father was not permitted to stay with the family and had to find lodging elsewhere.

We hope you're all keeping up your #FamilyHistory over the summer! Both your research, and making some now!

We take a break with Zooms during August but back on 29th September with Richard Holt talking about Freedom of Information Act - see poster. Register using this link: tinyurl.com/SuffolkFHSFr...

Millions of historic records released helping families trace their roots Fans of Who Do You Think You Are? will soon be able to trace their own family histories and find out more about their ancestors after historic records were released to the public

Ancestors in Cambridgeshire?

Member Alice Richardson thought some readers with ancestors in Cambridgeshire might be interested in this www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/history...
#NWKFHS #Genealogy

Our new Autumn edition of our Ancestor is now out. #familyhistory #thedoncasterancestor

Sevenoaks Branch August Talk: The Fabulous 50s. Do You Remember? with Delia Taylor
Saturday 9 August Doors open 10.45am meeting starts 11am

A fun look back at the decade of the 1950s.
#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

1. Women of the Empire: Nurses who Joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, V.A.D.
Phoebe Elizabeth Meadows was born in 1889, Oldbury- on- Severn, Gloucestershire. She was the daughter of Charles Meadow and Phoebe Elizabeth Sansum. #WW1 #VADnurses

Useful information for anyone researching #FamilyHiistory #LocalHistory or ##HouseHistory in #Yorkshire especially the dedicated East Riding Deeds Registry @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @federationfhs.bsky.social

Come to the Really Useful Show LIVE! At PRONI, Belfast on Saturday 23rd August. #FamilyHistory #ReallyUsefulShow #Genealogy www.familyhistoryfederation.com/fhf-really-u...

Some more excellent #FamilyHistory events at family history societies coming up! www.familyhistoryfederation.com/news-and-eve...

Robert CHURCHWARD Papers
A large binder containing a comprehensive history of Robert Churchward, born about 1807, who died in Bromley in 1887, has recently been donated to the Society.

There are Dartford, Woolwich and Orpington connections.
Please get in touch if this might be your family.
#NWKFHS

1. Our Next Help Desk Day is on Monday 11th August 10.00am - 1.45pm at Armthorpe Library. You will be able to access Find My Past and Ancestry websites for free plus the 1921 census for free. #familyhistory #genealogy

The FHF will be attending the Doncaster & District FHS Family History Fair 2025 on Saturday 16th, August from 10:00-16:00. www.familyhistoryfederation.com/doncaster-di...

Time in hours.

The latest Lost Cousins newsletter with some offers that are about to run out
#NWKFHS #Genealogy

www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2...

Another great blog post on the subject of how to get from A to B from 1600s-1800's - before train, canals, and certainly cycles and cars
www.campop.geog.cam....

Churchyard gravestones became commonplace from the late 1600s, but their popularity amongst ordinary members of society was as a result of the Victorian obsession with death and funerals. #FamilyHistory #DidYouKnow? www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/churchyard-b...

Depending on the creation date, if the photographer is unknown the copyright lasts for 70 years from creation or publication, or at least that is my understanding from p15
of this document: cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/in...
If photographer is known it's 70 years after death (with caveats)

Liberation 1945 – As it Happened Channel Islands

Latest @howtohistory.bsky.social blog

Liberation 1945 – As it Happened
Channel Islands

Link 👉 howtohistory.substack.com/p/liberation...

2. At this year’s family history fair at the Corn Exchange, you can get up close and personal with the Doncaster Waites players of Renaissance music. #doncasterwaites #familyhistory #doncastercornexchange

1. Meet the Doncaster Waites!
Have you ever wondered what a Crumhorn was, or how a hurdy gurdy’d? Were your ancestors musicians? Then now is your chance to find out. #doncasterwaites #familyhistory

Ipswich Group next meet 6 Aug 7:30pm. Bill Mann will talk on "The way holidays used to be"
At Salvation Army Citadel, 558 Woodbridge Rd, Ipswich. Easy parking at rear. NO need to prebook, just turn up and pay the modest entry fee.

. @thegenealogist.bsky.social have released over 330,000 New Historic Wills and Probate Records

Find out more 👉 www.thegenealogist.co.uk/news/

Our next talk is about the Acomb Lunatic Asylum scandal which inspired ‘The Woman in White’.
Wednesday August 6th 7:30 on person or on zoom or on YouTube. See website for membership details. £3 entry fee to cover costs. Usual venue. It’s gonna be amaaazing! @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social