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Family History On-Line Autumn 2010
1.30 - 3.30 pm Wednesdays at New Life Church, fortnightly, starting Wednesday 22nd September
Brenda Leech and Jane Wynne
This course is for beginners who would like to know how and where to start researching their family history. A lot of the information is now on websites. All the sites are available on computers at Cheshire and Staffordshire Libraries; the first hour each day is free, then £1.50 for each extra hour. All but one site can be accessed free of charge at home.
There will be five fortnightly sessions starting in September at New Life Church. If anyone needs help we may be able to book longer sessions on computers at the library at other times.
Course plan:
1. Birth, marriages and deaths since 1837, wills
2. Finding relatives on census entries 1841 to 1911
3. Parish registers, burials, historical trade directories and newspapers
4. Military records and overseas records
5. Dating photographs and storing information
For more information or to register an interest in joining this group, please contact:
Brenda Leech, tel.01260 271909 or Jane Wynne, tel.01260 273826
brenda.leech[at]btinternet.com jemwynne33[at]ukonline.co.uk
Historical Topics
11.15 am - 12.45 pm Mondays at St John Headquarters, Room 2, starting Monday 27th September.
Reg Waite
11 years after starting Garden History at least 50 different historical topics must have been covered. The course will include: The Medieval and Early Traveller, The English Village, Lewis Carroll and His World, The Cecils of Walsingham and their connections to the life of Elizabeth I, Thomas Telford, Becoming Victoria, The Story of P&O, Gertrude Jekyll. Can take around 40 people.
Aspects of Congleton History
11.15 am - 12.45 pm Tuesdays at St John Headquarters, for 6 weeks starting January 2011.
Peter Boon
A 6-week course covering a variety of aspects of the history of Congleton, from AD 60—1950.
A History of Photography.
9.30-11.00 Mondays at St Mary's Church Hall. Autumn Term only: no meetings 18th and 25th October.
Alan Self
For centuries, people had dreamed of a way to make the real world draw its own images on paper automatically, without the rare skills of the artist. The realisation of the dream has touched all our lives in many ways. We will look at some artistic, technical and social aspects of photography from the 19th to the 21st century.
History of Christianity
9.30 - 11.00 am Tuesdays at St John Headquarters.
Ieuan Johnston
Religious activity inevitably leads to differences of belief and practice. Some order is imposed on this variety by authority figures and/or popular streams of thought thus allowing churches and denominations to emerge. This course will look at the history of Christianity with reference to some of those differences and the figures and influences that gathered followers. A programme with a fuller introduction is available from ieuan[at]bluntgrovefsnet.co.uk
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