Essex Society for Family History
RECENT
MEETINGS IN COLCHESTER
DECEMBER. 2007 - Once again the branch enjoyed a social afternoon with a photo display on PowerPoint, of celebrities from yesteryear.. There was also an exercise to see whose family tree had the most events (i.e. B, M or D) in foreign climes with some very interesting results.
NOVEMBER 2007 -. The branch was treated to a superb presentation by Kevin Cole on Improving your photographs. As always, Kevin gave a great talkwith a practical demonstration showing the advantages of digital photography. He also gave a lot of practical advice to members in the Q&A session.
OCTOBER.2007 - The group
transferred the meeting to Clacton Leisure Centre.
The whole weekend was taken up by the Clacton Leisure Exhibition with many
stalls. The branch manned a stall for both days and attracted a lot of
interest. On the Saturday, we were fortunate to have Brian Gough giving two
excellent talks. The first, in the morning, was aimed at beginners and the
afternoon talk was on Ancestry.com A highly successful weekend.
SEPTEMBER 2007
The meeting was taken up with the AGM at the start.
The chairman’s report commented on the publication of our second CD of
Transcribed Colchester Parishes. He also reported that the next stage of
Colchester Parishes from 1813 back to 1752 was going very well and on track for
completion by February 2008. In terms of future work, Paul Stirland gave a very
good presentation, illustrating how the branch could move the parish register
transcription into the Tendring Peninsular. This is part of the long term
strategy to index all of the parishes in the NE Essex branch catchment area.
The final half of the meeting was devoted to transcribing.
JULY 2007 - This month the branch held an Open Forum where the committee members attempted to help with advice. As in previous years, this effectively becomes a pooling of knowledge as there was a lot of specialist experience from the floor.
David Eniffer
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