Launch your local history research on the internet
A workshop to show people how to research their family history on the internet is to be made available by Warwickshire County Council.
On Saturday 22 May, Warwickshire County Record Office is hosting a workshop to help budding local historians. With more information than ever on the internet to help research local history, this hands-on workshop will provide advice and practice on how to start researching the history of an area on the internet, find documents in unexpected places and plan ahead to make the most of record office visits.
The workshop will be run by experienced local historian Christine Hodgetts and will offer help to both those who are just beginning to research their local history, and those who already have some experience.
“Local History on the Internet” is being held on Saturday 22 May between 9.15 am and 12.15 pm at Warwickshire County Record Office, Priory Park, off Cape Road, Warwick. Tickets cost £12.00 and booking is strongly recommended, by calling 01926 738959 Tuesday to Saturday.
Rowan Fisher, Learning and Outreach Officer at Warwickshire County Record Office, says: “We are seeing a growing interest in local history and we hope that this workshop will help give people the confidence to do their own.
”As involving as any soap opera, every town and neighbourhood in Britain has its own story to tell. Sometimes a community will be affected by national events, sometimes it generates its own dramas. Local historians enjoy researching the history of their area to uncover these stories.”
Warwickshire County Record Office is involved in safeguarding, managing and developing Warwickshire’s archives so that they can be accessed, interpreted and enjoyed by all those with an interest in Warwickshire’s past and its people. We hold records dating from the twelfth century up to the twenty first.
Visit http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/countyrecordoffice for more information on general opening times, directions and other useful information.
Image attached shows a photograph of Nuneaton in the 1900s. PH352/135/41
Courtesy of Warwickshire County Record Office