Group Leaders: Bill McNaught and Ann Titheradge.
Meeting Time: Last Friday of the month at 2.30pm
| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| Group email: | Family History group |
| When: | On Friday afternoons 2:30 pm-4:00 pm Last Friday of the month |
| Venue: | Home of Group Leader or Participant. |
Meeting Venue: Members houses in Woodingdean and Rottingdean
Participation: Anyone with an interest in family history is welcome, whether a complete novice or an expert.
Additional participants are welcome.
We have a presentation for the first part of the meeting followed by a general discussion for the second part of the meeting. We then have tea and coffee and there is a chance to ask questions on any aspect of family history, with plenty of helpful hints and advice available from the members.
Bill is happy to help people on a one-to-one basis with their family history research, so just email if you want help or advice on researching your family tree.
Email if you want to join us annbrighton129@gmail.com
Meeting Dates 2025/2026 and Topic for the Month
- Friday 31st October 2025 - Family History for Free
- Friday 28th November 2025 - Storing Sharing and Preserving your Family History Research
- Friday 30th January 2026 - Births Marriages and Deaths 1837 onwards
- Friday 27th February 2026 - Parish Records
- Friday 27th March 2026 - Census Records
- Friday 24th April 2026 - How Many Children?
- Friday 29th May 2026 - TBA
- Friday 26th June 2026 - TBA
Report on our last meeting on 26th June 2025 The topic was Researching our Family History for the Second World War period.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day and VJ Day the family history group decided to each research their family history during WW2 1939 - 1945. At our Friday meeting we shared our research. What an interesting afternoon. We had an account of the emotional visit to a great uncle's grave in France, others researched what family members did during the war including a nurse in a London Hospital during the London Blitz. Two people researched the war time journeys made by family members in the RAF using service records, photographs and squadron diaries. Plus we had the story of a school boy from Austria living in Wales who was interned in an English interment camp, recruited to SOE and then killed in Holland. The tear jerker was the letter that was read out which was written by a lady living in Coventry during the bombing raids describing the carnage of being bombed by the luftwaffe.