Meeting Reports

Anne gave a well-researched, informative and thoroughly entertaining talk that covered 4000 years of history. She started by getting us to think about how we

April 2015 meeting report: Speaker Mike Petty: writer on local history and previously in charge of the Local Collection at Cambridge Central Library Mike started

Thirty members attended a lively meeting with individual members presenting family stories. The evening was organised slightly differently from usual. We had the members’ stories

Alan Johnson, Peterborough and District Family History Society Alan gave an informative talk with lots of ideas and encouragement to get each and every one

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The Speaker at the October meeting was Geoff Sewell, with a talk entitled ‘The Great War’. The evening began in the picturesque village of Eltisley,

Our AGM was conducted by our President Wim Zwalf who afterwards gave a talk on his rare & unusual surname. His father was Dutch &

Sunshine welcomed people to our family history day & the various visiting societies soon had their stalls up & running in the large hall. People

We had visitors from Canada & Doncaster at our well attended July meeting. Tom Doig the well known social historian demonstrated how to date photographs.

As the Rose Fair preparations prevent us using St Peters Hall we visited the parish church at Outwell. Our Chairman gave us an illustrated talk

A good attendance listened to Eric’s illustrated & light hearted talk on the progress of healing the sick over the ages, The dictionary says that

The speaker at the February meeting was William Smith, and his talk was a ‘Pictorial views of Outwell’. This report is unfortunately brief; due to