Family History at Your Fingertips –
a talk and an interactive workshop session aimed at would-be family historians and their friends , family and “supporters”. All are welcome to come along and share their stories and discoveries.
Moira is an enthusiastic self taught family historian and who will introduce the session with an illustrated presentation. She gives several talks based on her own research and will use extracts to demonstrate how to start with the scantiest information using old documents or diaries, family photographs or anything you can find which captures your imagination and inspires you to start looking for information
Moira’s talks are presented in a unique way. Whilst telling the stories of the people and families involved, she also tries to paint a picture of the life and times in which they lived. So they are, truly, family histories.

Root and Branch family history group was a club I ran for six months in my local village. it was a friendly and informal group and could be restarted at a venue near you!

My Talks

My newest talk" Finding the Needle in the Haystack" - researching your London Ancestors - was given to the Sussex Family History Group in Chichester on Wednesday 25th November.
My latest talk


. " Finding the Needle in the Haystack" - researching your London Ancestorswas given to the Sussex Family History Group in Chichester on Wednesday 25th November
http://www.sfhg.org.uk/chichesterprog.html

" My Granny's Photos" is the first talk I ever gave and it show how I used Victorian photos to start researching my family history.

" The Military Macaroni" - concentrates on Charles Horneck.

This subject was featured in a BBC" Making History" programme



“A Nest of Hornecks” is based on the lives of the Horneck family: Charles, Mary (the ‘Jessamy Bride’) and Catherine (‘Little Comedy’).. Their story encompasses duels, elopements, divorces, scandals and other intrigues and gives a flavour of life in London at the time of George III. .




" Harps, Haarnacks and the Naked Chef" is about my quest to find out more about my ancestors' harp making business in London and how I traced back to 1808.
Wouldn't you just like to walk into this shop?

Go to previous post and click on movie clip to see Jamie Oliver do just that.