Thursday, July 28, 2005

[SoG-NEWS] Events Around the Country

The Society regularly gets posters and flyers a volunteer has kindly summarised these for members' interests.


Hertfordshire Local History
Annual Garden Party
Date: Sunday 31 July 2.30 - 5.00

Venue: First Garden City HeritageMuseum Letchworth
Cost: £4

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University College Durham Exhibition
Work in Progress - 200 years of Restoration & Conservation at Durham Castle Venue: Durham University Library, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RN
Dates: 11 July - 23 September 2005
Monday to Friday 9am - 5 pm
Free Entry
Tel: 0191 334 2932

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Bristol's City Record Office
"B" Bond Warehouse, Smeaton Road,
Bristol BS1 6XN Tel: 0117922 4224
Change of Opening hours from 1st August 2005
Open Tuesday - Friday 9.30 am - 4.30 pm (closed Monday)

Special extended opening times:
First two Thursdays of the month 9.30 am - 7 pm
First two Saturdays of the month 10 am - 4 pm
(unless a Saturday if followed by a Bank Holiday)
For a full list of the late Thursdays and all day Saturdays 2005/6 please
contact the Record Office or go to
www.bristol-city.gov.uk/recordoffice

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Havering Branch of the East of London FHS
Speaker: George Smith on "My Ancestors Moved Around"
Date: Saturday 6 August 2005 2 pm until 4 pm

Venue: The Trinity Chrch Hall Upminster (entrance in Gaynes Road) Doors open from 10.30 am for Bookstall, Advice, Library, Help, Refreshments
Computer Group meeting starts at 11 am

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West Middlesex Family History Society
A One-Day Conference at The National Archives, Kew on
Saturday, 10th September 2005 from 10 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.

'The Poor Are Always With Us - exploring poverty through the ages'.
Speakers; Jean Debney - What's in Your Parish Desk?
Richard Harvey - Apprenticeship
Liz Carter - Workhouse Visitor
Tom Doig - The Victorian Way of Death
Cost - £12 per head, including tea and coffee.
Booking/full details - entrance by ticket only, available from Mrs. Maggie Mold, WMFHS, 48 Darby Crescent, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex TW16 5LA
(enclose s.a.e.) or via our website;
www.west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk
before
27th August, 2005.

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The English Place-Name Society and
The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
Autumn Day-conference in memory of Victor Watts 1938-2002
Date: Saturday 17 Sept 2005 10.30 - 6.30

Venue: Grey College, University of Durham
Cost: £17.50; £20 for non-members Dinner additional £15 (excluding drinks)
Accommodation available @ £47.50 for twin room
To book contact: Mrs Janet Rudkin, English Place-Name Society, School of
English, University of Nottingham NG7 2RD before 31 August
Tel: 0115 951 5959 email: name-studies@nottingham.ac.uk

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Hampshire Genealogical Society
Family History Open Day
Date: Sunday 25 September 2005 10 am to 4 pm

Venue: Horndean Technology College,
Merchistoun Road, Horndean, Hants.
Admission Free
Enquiries to secretary@hgs-online.org.uk or petercooper@trow.freeserve.co.uk
www.hgs-online.org

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HALH Symposium
"Transport & Travel before the Railway Age"
Date: Saturday 12 November 2005

Venue: St Albans Girls School, Sandridgebury Lane, St Albans
Cost: £9; £7 for HALH members.
Further details:
david-ann@ver175.wanadoo.co.uk


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The Victorian Panel Study
A questionnaire to collect information about the prospects for a Victorian Panel Study (VPS).

The National Archives is to collaborate with appropriate Higher & Further Education stakeholders in order to generate new Information and Technology and Communications resources to the mutual benefit of all parties. The proposed VPS would take as its base the individuals and households recorded in an existing computerised national 2 % sample of the 1851 British census and trace these through subsequent registration and census information for the 50 year period to 1901.
The primary objectives of the pilot are:
- to test differing sampling and methodological issues
- to examine the linking problems involved
- to investigate the relationship between the VPS & other longitudinal data projects
- to explore the strategic partnership which will support the VPS
- to recommend a framework & strategy for creating a full VPS

The questionnaire is intended to gain input into the demand for and potential uses of a VPS.
The form can be completed online at:
www.data-archive.ac.uk/home/vps.survey.asp

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Scottish National Archive
The Scottish National Archive is a partnership between more than 50 of Scotland's archives. The key parts of the website are: Online Catalogues, Research Tools, Digital Archive.

Information from: Scottish Archive Network,
National Archives of Scotland,
Thomas Thomson House,
99 Bankhead Crossway North,
Edinburgh, EH11 4DX
Tel: 0131 242 5800
email: enquiries@scan.org.uk

www.scan.org.uk
also
www.ScottishDocuments.com
and
www.ScottishHandwriting.com


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The ISG (CILIP)/ BookDATA Reference Awards 2005
Your chance to nominate outstanding new print and electronic reference works.
Eligible works are those FIRST published between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2005
All nominations are welcome - from individuals, libraries, publishers and other organisations
Besterman/ McColvin Medal printed category;
Besterman/ McColvin Medal electronic category
Nominations to ISG Chairman, 42 Moors Lane,
Winsford Cheshire CW7 1JX
or
isg@nurcombe.com
A full list of submitted entries is available on
www.nielsenbookdata.co.uk/nbd/news.asp


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Please contact the addresses given rather than the Society.

You may also find it useful to occasionally visit GENEVA -
http://geneva.weald.org.uk

GENEVA is a joint GENUKI/FFHS list of GENealogical EVents and Activities which often has dates and venues stretching twelve months (or more) ahead - SoG events included!

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