'Spaces available' - please contact Carole to check the current availability etc

COVID PRECAUTIONS

Please do not attend if you feel unwell or have been in contact recently with someone who has Covid.

Our Family History group

We aim to help members to either start researching their family history and/or build on their existing trees. Absolute beginners and those with some experience are both very welcome at any time.

Members are encouraged to share in solving others' brick walls and celebrating their stories. We like to understand the lives of ancestors by exploring their contexts too. We try to include speakers and visits too, along with other relevant activities. Please also visit Family History 1 for an alternative class.

So if you are interested in joining this or any Leek U3A Family History group, please contact Carole by phone or email.

COMPUTER SKILLS

You need to have basic computer/internet skills - just emailing & basic internet searching. We'll show you how use and improve your IT skills.

USING THE PROJECTOR

See User Guide

LINKS to key free and commercial sites:

Ancestry	The world’s largest online library of family history information (£) and largest DNA database.
Black Country Living Museum	Open air museum about people who changed the world: their village and streets, by the canal, on the tramway and down their mine. See how ‘they’ became ‘us/you’
British Society in the Early C18	This may be a free online short course that would interest you...
Census	Read the blurb and click on the year of choice (Tip: work backwards from 1911) (part free, part £)
Cyndislist	A gateway to sources of masses of data (free)
Family Heritage	A family network site where you can build and save your tree (free)
Family Search	Use the 'Learn tab to watch mini video tutorials, and/or enter your search criteria in the boxes to get results [free]
FindMyPast	The most complete indexes and original (£)
FreeBMD	Click on 'search' and enter names for results [free]
GRO	Order BMD certificates on line [searching is free, buying certs is £]
Genuki	A gateway to finding UK & Ireland records (free)
The Genealogist	Widest range of data (£)
The National Archives at Kew	The Discovery search box gives you access to the 20+ million records of central government and the courts of law of England and Wales [part free, part £]