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“By Voice, Page and Screen”A Beginners’ Guide To Researching Family History.A talk by Brian & Karen Tayler Karen has been researching her own family tree for around 20 years, and is registered with the Guild Of One-Named Studies for her maiden surname of Pattenden and its variants. She belongs to several family history societies, and currently provides a Help Desk for the Tunbridge Wells Family History Society meetings. Her index of individuals now stretches to around 10,000 6x4 record cards, and the bulk of the c14,500 names in their combined family tree are hers. She will cover the basics of getting started with your research and the resources available to you both orally and in printed form – parish records, censuses, newspapers and other common documents. Brian has only been researching his tree for 17 years, and with a name like Tayler is definitely not a One Named Study. He started using genealogy bulletin boards for information around 13 years ago (before there were genealogy web-sites), has maintained a web site for their combined research for 10 years, and has run Adult Education courses for Internet Genealogy at Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge for the past three years. He will cover general internet issues, on-line resources such as wills and the IGI, resources available on CD ROM and genealogy software. Brian researches the names Tayler, Palmer, Packham and a whole lot more. They will bring a range of CD ROM – based resources and software packages to demonstrate after the talk. They are also able to shed light on how research into house history and family history are intertwined. Why not visit the Links on their own website, which suggests several sources to help you build a picture of your own family. |