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Following the talk from Jon Kenny earlier in the year the local history group have been participating in a research project organised by the University of York examining medieval fishponds. Researchers are taking soil cores from a number of moated sites...
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Following our history group meeting which focused on the war service records of men listed on the Fangfoss Parish war memorial I thought the blog would be a good place to post some web-links that may be useful if you want to research first world war ancestors...
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Many thanks to everyone who helped make our first local history exhibition such a success. In particular we must thank Sue Fraser for all her efforts as the 'Rural Roots' outreach worker from the Beverley Treasure House . Without Sue's encouragement...
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The cycle of monthly meetings of the group will be starting up again next week. We have a programme of speakers arranged to Christmas with, what I hope is, a variety of topics. Andrew Sefton will be talking about the map maker William Watson , I'll...
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Yesterday I took a trip to the National Archives at Kew. Along with researching some family history, there were two things I was looking for: the records of the 1910 property valuation for Bolton and the 1941 National Farm Survey . Both of these records...
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Last week's meeting of the group featured a talk from Richard Walgate from East Yorkshire Family History Society . Based on at least five generations of his own family tree, Richard took us through a variety of the sources used in family history....