Get to grips with title deeds
Warwickshire County Council is to run a workshop to help people interested in local history and the history of houses.
On Saturday 19 June, Warwickshire County Record Office is hosting a workshop looking specifically at title deeds and the information they hold. Title deeds can feature information on everything from land usage to detailed descriptions of buildings and their contents.
They can also contain details of intricate family relationships, as well as buyers and sellers. They are therefore of use to local historians, house historians and family historians.
The workshop will be run by experienced local historian Christine Hodgetts. Christine will explain how to locate title deeds before showing how to get essential information from them. There will then be some individual practice at reading a deed yourself.
Rowan Fisher, Learning and Outreach Officer at Warwickshire County Record Office, says: “Title deeds are the building blocks of house and local history, but people often find them daunting. We hope that this workshop will help people get to grips with them.”
“Discovering Title Deeds” is being held on Saturday 19 June 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.
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. It holds 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.