KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

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Due to recent problems with parking at the Hall, we recommend using Holman's Meadow; please consider using the Hall parking only if you have mobility problems- we thank you for your kind cooperation in this matter.

Unless specified, meetings are held on the second Friday of the month. Our June meeting is an outdoor meeting at a place of local historical interest. There is no meeting in January. 

The venue is open from 7pm, with the meeting commencing at 7.50pm.

Future Programme

DATE

SPEAKER

SUBJECT
January 2012   NO MEETING
10th February 2012 Peter Ewart Additional Victorian Sources for the Family Historian
9th March 2012 Geoff Hutchinson A History of Smuggling in Sussex and Kent
13th April 2012 Mark Pearsall The National Archives: How to use its contents
11th May 2012 Toni Mount Medieval Housewives
8th June 2012 Bob Ogley Nineteenth-Century Kent
13th July 2012 Outdoor Meeting An Evening Guided Tour of Chilham Castle Grounds. Strictly Ticket Only- £4. Limited Numbers.
10th August 2012 Celia Heritage How Far did your Ancestors Travel?
14th September 2012 Helen Allinson A Hundred Years of Toys and Play
12th October 2012 Tom Doig Old Photographs- Identifying and Dating
(Please bring along your old photos to be dated)
9th November 2012 Dr Geoff Swinfield DNA Tests for Family Historians:
What genetic tests are available, and what they can tell you about your ancestry
14th December 2012 Chris McCooey Birds, Beasts and Bacchanalia of Kent and Sussex
January 2013   NO MEETING
8th February 2013 t.b.a t.b.a
8th March 2013 The Rev. Norman Hopkins The Chapels of Kent

Previous Speakers

Oct 2005 Gillian Rickard Records of Vagrants, Gypsies, Travellers and Strangers. Report Here.
Nov 2005 Anne Carter Guy Fawkes. Report Here.
Dec 2005 David Wood My Ancestors are Still Revolting. Report Here
Mar 2006 Lady Mary Teviot London Sources. Report Here.
Sept 2006 Jon Mills Identifying Uniforms from Family Photographs. Report Here.
Nov 2006 Wendy Anderson The Dark Satanic Mills. Report Here.
Jan 2007 Peter Ewart School Life in Victorian and Edwardian Times. Report Here.
Feb 2007 Mervyn Streatfield Were the Good Old Days - That Good? Report Here.
Mar 2007 Paul Blake London- The Metropolitan Nightmare. Report Here.
Apr 2007 Meryl Catty To Coin a Phrase. Report Here.
May 2007 Martin Lloyd Buzz Bombs and Bicycles. Report Here.
June 2007 Michael Peters Outdoor Meeting- Huguenot Canterbury. Report Here. Photographs Here.
July 2007 Brian Fagg The Chelsea Flower Show and How it Came into Being. Report Here.
Sept 2007 Bob Ogley Doodlebugs and Rockets: The V1 and V2 attacks on Kent. Report Here.
Oct 2007 Peter Ewart The History of Rye. Report Here.
Nov 2007 David Wood Why Didn't We Remember Them? Report Here.
Jan 2008 Peter Ewart The Records of the Parish Overseer. Report Here.
Feb 2008 Marjorie Lyle Slaves to Missionaries. Report Here.
Mar 2008 Dr David Wright Probate Records. Report Here.
Apr 2008 Michael Gandy Chancery and Exchequer. Report Here.
May 2008 Anthony Cooke and Charles Fagg Members Talks. Report Here.
June 2008 Geoffrey Pike Outdoor Meeting- A Walk around Old Whitstable. Report Here.
July 2008 Miss Anne Carter Rochester Cathedral. Report Here.
Sept 2008 Chris McCooey Kent and Sussex Women- Famous, Infamous and Unsung. Report Here.
Oct 2008 Sir Walter Bodmer People of the British Isles: A National Genetics Study. Report Here.
Nov 2008 Richard Ratcliffe Was She a Murderess? Report Here.
Dec 2008 Anne Carter Queen Victoria. Report Here.
Jan 2009 Peter Ewart Newspaper Research for the Family Historian. Report Here.
Feb 2009 Gillian Rickard Goods and Chattels- Probate Inventories. Report Here.
Mar 2009 Peter Ewart The Swing Riots: An Account of the Agricultural Labourers' Revolt of 1830. Report Here.
Apr 2009 Steve Cordery Ten Things to do with your Electronic Tree. Report Here.
May 2009 Ted Maynard and Ros Clark Members Talks. Report Here.
July 2009 Lady Mary Teviot I Never Thought of That: A Second Look at Problems. Report Here.
Sept 2009 Helen Allinson Life in the Workhouse. Report Here.
Oct 2009 Julia Page Sandgate to Rye: Napoleon's Gateway. Report Here.
Dec 2009 Geoff Hutchinson History in Comic Verse- From 1066 to the Internet. Report Here.
Feb 2010 Peter Ewart Nor the Years Condemn- Some War Memorials in Kent and East Sussex. Report Here.
Dec 2010 Cyril Baldwin Going, Going, Gone! Report Here.
Feb 2011 Peter Ewart Reflections of a Genealogist. Report to follow.
Mar 2011 Col. Dick Bolton Canterbury: The Ins and Outs. Report to follow.
Apr 2011 Peter Christian Finding Genealogy on the Internet. Handout of useful websites at www.spub.co.uk/lectures/canterbury.pdf 
July 2011 Anne Carter Gads Hill Place: Dickens' Little Kentish Freehold. Report Here.
Aug 2011 Geoff Bridger Talking Point: An Eclectic Collection from the Great War. Report Here.
Sept 2011 Lady Mary Teviot London Sources. Report to follow.
Oct 2011 David Cufley Trade Sources for Family Research. Report Here.
Nov 2011 Dr John Batchelor The Crab and Winkle Line. Report Here.
Dec 2011 Patricia Mortlock A Country House Christmas. Report Here.

                    For further details of the Branch Programme please email canterburykfhs@btinternet.com or Telephone: 01227 453 576               

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