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Evidence Analysis: Proving What You Know
Date: Thursday, 19 March 2026
Speaker: Linda Hammond
Location: Zoom
How many of the “facts” in your family tree are truly proven - and how many are just educated guesses? In genealogy, it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of assumptions: a family story that must be true, an “obvious” connection that fits...
How to Excel in Your Family History
Date: Thursday, 26 March 2026
Speaker: AWFHS Committee Member
Location: Zoom
Several members have requested a demonstration on using Excel spreadsheets to help with transcribing and organising family history records. This beginner-friendly session will cover the basics, along with a selection of useful tips to help you get st...
Did he leave me anything? The History and Traditions of Willmaking
Date: Monday, 13 April 2026
Speaker: Anne Mealia
Location: Zoom
Looks at the customs and process of making and proving a will and explores how people ensured their loved ones received their inheritance....
Aspects of Adoption
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2026
Speaker: Penny Walters
Location: Zoom
Led by a person who was adopted this session will stimulate a deeper understanding of the nature odadoption and impact on all parties concerned....
Ancestors on the margins: tracing misfortunate ancestors
Date: Monday, 11 May 2026
Speaker: Janet Few
Location: Zoom
Helping family historians with British ancestors to research those whose conditions or behaviours may have led them to become marginalised or discriminated against....
Lawnswood's Great War Stories
Date: Thursday, 21 May 2026
Speaker: Andrea Hetherington
Location: Zoom
Although Lawnswood is a cemetery in Leeds, an examination of a cemetery's gravestones can tell the whole story of the First World War beyond soldiers' names on a war memorial....
What Granny didn't want me to know and other stories
Date: Monday, 1 June 2026
Speaker: Steve Manning
Location: Zoom
Family stories can be great fun but they may not be universally welcomed. Particularly when they have been slightly embellished over time - or by the telling!...
Confessions of a Tapophile: From Curious Visitor to Compulsive Researcher
Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026
Speaker: AWFHS Committee Member
Location: Zoom
Speaker Steve Miller: It always begins innocently enough — a quiet wander through a cemetery, a quick look at a headstone, maybe a photograph or two. Before you know it, you are decoding inscriptions, comparing burial registers, and wondering where...