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. His family covered much of East Yorkshire and futher afield, including links to Bishop Wilton. For an excellent website for locally relevant genealogy resources try "Gareth's List".

We also saw some developments on the scanning of local documents, with arrangements now in hand to collect documents and get them scanned by the archive service. A big pile of Fangfoss school records made an appearance, and will be scanned in due course.

Another new service provided online by the archives are digitised versions on historical OS maps, look at sheet 176 for Bolton. Maps are available from 1855, 1910 and 1927. You need two plugins (SVG and DjVu) to view the maps, these can be downloaded when you first visit the site.

Finally plans are being made for the planned visit to the Treasure House on Monday August 20th. If you want details contact me on so7@york.ac.uk.