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For anyone researching family history in Leicestershire and Rutland. Please get in touch to find out more via LRFHS.org.uk.
Final chance today to enter our FREE drawβ¦
17.03.2025 09:08 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Lots of local history/heritage exhibitors will be thereβ¦.hope to see you !
17.03.2025 17:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Looking forward to this eventβ¦..We will be there with help desk and book/CD stall. Great opportunity to chat heritage and family history!
06.03.2025 17:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0On World Book Day, just a small selection of the books available to browse at our Research Centre. Full list of our library is on our website.
06.03.2025 12:05 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0My #Rootstech short recorded session 'Where am I? Are you searching in the right place?' is now available - along with my sessions from 2024. Looking forward to listening to any other offerings over the next few days. www.familysearch.org/.../speakers... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
06.03.2025 06:40 β π 32 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0#Rootstech2025 is live now and my talk Where Do You Think You Are? is already availableβ¦
www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech...
Join our Publicity Officer as she chats re LRFHS and heritageβ¦
www.soarsound.uk/spotlight-on...
Ellistown war memorial.
Ellistown war memorial. Ellistown, Leicestershire. First and Second World Wars and subsequent conflicts. #LestWeForget
03.03.2025 14:36 β π 28 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0Day out in London today at Wesleyβs Chapel for the @FederationFHS seminar βYour Future, Our Future.β Lots of useful conversations and ideas for the future !
15.02.2025 21:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Next meeting of our Market Harborough branch, all welcome. Listen to research stories and/or bring along your family history questions and challenges. All welcome, no need to book.
14.02.2025 13:08 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Booking for our next zoom talk is now open.
29.01.2025 08:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our 2025 zoom talks get underway next week. Make 2025 the year your missing ancestors are found !
Please see booking details below. All welcome.
The Leicester branch has its Christmas meeting this week. All welcome, no need to book. Large car park and warm venueβ¦..we might need it for the spine chilling stories Brian will be tellingβ¦!
07.12.2024 12:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Join us at our December talkβ¦.free to members, non members welcome (Β£2 donation appreciated). Please email publicity@lrfhs.org.uk for the zoom link.
29.11.2024 21:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0ποΈβ¨ Meet Our December Speakers! β¨ποΈ
Get ready for an incredible month of talks featuring these amazing experts:
π @elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social
ποΈ Graham Bandy
βοΈ Gay Evans
πΊ Rob Smith
π @rachelstakes.bsky.social
π° Eilir Daniels
π Rebecca Probert
π @davelifelines.bsky.social
Map of London, East. Colour coded.
Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. ποΈ unsplash.com/collections/...
28.11.2024 08:06 β π 1077 π 430 π¬ 44 π 49household return from the 1911 census of England and Wales. The names in the left-hand column have been completely obliterated by some sort of water or fire damage. There is a massive hole across the sheet and significant brown discolouration to the page
If this were the crucial record for your research, it would be the definition of a Bad Day... #ouch #FamilyHistory #genealogy
(and THIS is one of the reasons we work with groups of records & cross-reference as much as possible!)
π· RG 14/7810 Sch 99 c/o @findmypast.bsky.social
Open as usual today (10.30 -3pm and tomorrow 10.00-12.30.
7-9 Every Street, Town Hall Square, Leicester. All welcome, help with research available if needed. All welcome !