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Zoom Talks

Event Date 22-03-2022 7:30 pm
Capacity 99
Individual Price Free but donation appreciation via webshop
Zoom Talk: Breaking Down Ancestral Brick Walls with  Ian Waller
Event Date 21-04-2022 7:00 pm
Capacity 99
Individual Price Free to members. Guests and visitors are asked to make a donation towards our Zoom licence and speaker's fee.
Event Date 21-06-2022 7:30 pm
Capacity 99
Individual Price Free to members. Guests and visitors are asked to make a donation towards the costs of our Zoom licence.

Please log in from 7pm and enjoy an informal chat between attendees until the talk starts at 7.30pm

Claire Moores is an independent history researcher with over 20 years experience of genealogical and local historical research projects.

Mina Jury was transported to Van Dieman's land age 17 for stealing some jewellery from her employer.  After she got her ticket of leave she married and had 11 children.  However, after her husband's death she then returned to England to appear as a minor witness in the trial of the Tichborne Claimant in 1873.  Uprooted from the stable life she had created in Australia, Mina went on to live a life of theft and fraud in England.

The Society is a charity and membership fees and donations are an important part of our income.  So, if you are not a North West Kent FHS member, please consider making a donation via our web shop towards the cost of the speaker and our Zoom licence.

Zoom link: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87308914672?pwd=M2RjQS9HTDNMMDBuVE1BSXhrNXVBdz09

Id 873 0891 4672    Passcode 322711

Event Date 28-07-2022 7:00 pm
Event End Date 28-07-2022 9:00 pm
Capacity 99
Individual Price Free to members. Guests and visitors are asked to make a donation towards our Zoom licence and speaker's fee.
Zoom Talk; Researching Brewery and Publican Ancestors with speaker Simon Fowler

August 9 London 8.00 pm  (Seattle 12pm; Ottawa 3pm; August 10 Auckland 7am)

This talk is organised by East Surrey Family History Society, which has invited members and friends of North West Kent FHS to attend free of charge.

Many of us have ancestors who worked somewhere in this industry. The talk will help researchers to discover the various avenues of research available.

Simon formerly worked at the National Archives. Brewers and publicans are just one area of his exhaustive knowledge -  so fill up your glass and join us!

 You must Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAld-qvrT0qEtCyq4xkb5DooYBTsegy6DY_

Please note: this talk will be recorded but the recording will be played only once: on 10 August at 10am. (Perth 5pm. Canberra 7pm, Auckland 9pm) but the zoom link for the recording is only available to members. 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Event Date 09-08-2022 8:00 pm
Capacity 100
Individual Price Free

Please log in from 7pm and enjoy an informal talk between attendees before the talk starts at 7.30pm

Antony Marr is a retired police officer with many years training and experience, and former deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages. Now a professional genealogist and Chair of AGRA (Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives). Specific interest in the records of civil registration. 

Why can the same birth be registered more than once and in different years?  Why does a single death registration involve three different certificates?  

This talk will look at the complex rules of registering birth and death events, uncovering the complexities and hidden information these essential  records of civil registration can contain.

The Society is a charity and membership fees and donations are an important part of our income.  So, if you are not a North West Kent FHS member, please consider making a donation via our web shop towards the cost of the speaker and our Zoom licence.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2799524396?pwd=ZTM4V0E4R2ZqbTZubXpXZ1dDZGdRQT09

Meeting id 279 952 4396  Passcode 533032

Event Date 15-09-2022 7:00 pm
Capacity 99
Individual Price Free to members. non members are asked to make a donation towards speaker's fee and Zoom licence.
Event Date 20-10-2022 7:30 pm
Event End Date 20-10-2022 9:00 pm
Capacity 100
Individual Price Free to members. Guests and visitors are asked to make a donation towards our Zoom licence and speaker's fee.
Event Date 19-11-2022 10:00 am
Event End Date 19-11-2022 12:00 pm
Capacity 100
Individual Price Free to members of North West Kent and East Surrey FHSs. Guests and visitors are asked to make a donation towards our Zoom licence and speaker's fee.
Zoom Talk: A Grandmother's Legacy - My Family History with Jenny Mallin

Please log in from 7pm and enjoy a chat amongst attendees beforehand.

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Meeting ID: 279 952 4396  Passcode: 533032

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Jenny delivers a fascinating insight into five generations of her family who lived during the days of the British Raj in India. 

A complete insight how five generations of a family lived as Domiciled Anglo Indians with British ancestry on both sides of the family for almost two hundred years in India during the British Raj. 

We discover the early ancestors' story of military battles in the 18th century and how future generations were involved in professions on the railway, education and medicine whilst tagging on the story of the grandmothers and their lives seen through the eyes of their granddaughter. 

There are wonderful family sepia images throughout this particular talk with anecdotes and historical facts, data and records which will intrigue both family historians but also those who are interested in learning more about how life was for those living in British India.   

This talk provides a fascinating glimpse into a real family, real stories and how history ran parallel in their own lives.  The best way to describe this popular presentation with vivid images is that the audience feels you are discovering all the chapters of a book in one talk.  This is a one hour talk with time for Q & A at the end.  

Jenny has a "legacy" : a 170 year old cookbook penned  by Jenny's great 4 x grandmother in 1844 when she was aged just 15 and a newly wed bride, married to an English schoolmaster. 

Jenny also describes her grandfathers, uncles and relatives who served in the British Army as early as 1798, The Royal Indian Navy, the Railways in Madras, a co-founder of an English Medium School in India in the early 18th century and a great uncle who rose up through the ranks of the ICS to become Postmaster General in the telegraph industry.    

Now a writer, Jenny has had a successful career at the BBC in television production. She lives in Kingsclere with Stewart, her husband of over 30 years, their Westie dog, and their three cats. Any spare time that she has is spent doing painting, home decorating, jewellery making, listening to music, photography and enjoying nature. 

Jenny has travelled extensively throughout India and has also visited many other countries, including Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, and America. Her travelogues and written anecdotes of her journeys are much enjoyed by her family and friends.

A collection of talks based on generations of her British Raj Family with fascinating sepia photographs and interesting facts about the history of the infrastructure of India.

North West Kent FHS is a charity and membership fees and donations are an important part of our income.  So, if you are not a North West Kent FHS member, please consider making a donation via our web shop towards the cost of our Zoom licence and speaker's fee.

This talk won't be recorded.

Event Date 26-01-2023 7:30 pm
Event End Date 26-01-2023 9:00 pm
Capacity 100
Individual Price Free to members. Guests and visitors are asked to make a donation towards our Zoom licence and speaker's fee.