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Bolton FHS Meeting - Females in the Family: Ladies, Ships, Locomotives...
7.30pm 5 May 2021
Many sources in this talk are particularly, though not exclusively, relevant to researching women and developing the maternal side of family
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Bolton FHS Meeting - Liverpool Cowkeepers: A family history
7.30pm 2 Jun 2021
Dave Joy draws on his own family history to tell the story of the lives and times of the Liverpool Cowkeepers.
DetailsBolton FHS Meeting - Jerome Caminada, the real Sherlock Holmes
7.30pm 7 Jul 2021
Jerome Caminada was a 19th-century police officer in Manchester who was reputedly the real Sherlock Holmes
DetailsBolton FHS Meeting - The Cotton Famine and how badly was Bolton affected?
7.30pm 4 Aug 2021
The Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65 and how badly affected was Bolton?
DetailsBolton FHS Meeting - Researching illegitimate ancestors
7.30pm 1 Sep 2021
Retired professional archivist Anna Watson explains how Church Court Records can help to find our illegitimate ancestors
DetailsBolton FHS Meeting - Research using education records
7.30pm 6 Oct 2021
The schooldays of our Lancashire ancestors in the nineteenth century
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MANCHESTER & LANCASHIRE FHS was formed in 1964 and is now one of the largest family history societies in the world. Although the Society is united by a common interest in Genealogy and Family History, members also pursue interests in closely related fields.
