East FHS AGM 2025 to be held on Saturday 18th October
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East FHS AGM 2025 to be held on Saturday 18th October ~~~
The East Family History Society
Annual General Meeting 2025
The 2025 get-together and AGM will be held at Bishopshalt School, Royal Lane, Hillingdon UB8 3RF on Saturday 18th October, from 10am to 4 pm.
Coffee & tea will be served in the Mansion Hall from 10am to 12 noon.
A box for donations to help towards the hire of the school will be placed near the coffee and tea table. We will be very grateful for any amount.
The AGM will start at 12 noon & a talk by Jessica Feinstein will be given after lunch, in the Mansion. Jessica is a qualified professional genealogist and genealogy teacher. She particularly enjoys solving family mysteries, breaking down brick walls, and helping people discover and share their family stories. Her website is at: www.roserootsresearch.co.uk
Lunch will be provided in the Main Hall of the school but must be pre-booked. See the separate form sent to members with Points East and available in the members area of the website. Please feel free to bring a packed lunch if you prefer, but a charge of £10 will be made to cover tea, coffee and tableware.
Cheques (in advance) to be made out to Mrs P.M.Pearce
Directions and map to Bishopshalt school (within London Low Emission Zone) are in the members area of the website, along with previous minutes, AGM agenda and other useful documents. The committee’s reports for the AGM will be added to the website shortly
Tracing your medieval ancestors
A talk to be given by Jessica Feinstein
If your ancestors lived in England in the Middle Ages, who were they, and what were their lives like? More importantly, how can we trace them?
This talk will introduce you to some key resources for the period and help you to picture your medieval ancestors, whether they were rural families living in a small village and working on the land, or merchants or servants living in a city such as London or Norwich. Perhaps you descend from Anglo-Saxons or people with Scandinavian roots, or maybe one of the soldiers who came to England in 1066 with William the Conqueror? Possibly an ancestor was Scottish, Welsh or Irish, or one of the thousands of registered “aliens” who came from Europe to live in English towns and cities in the 1400s.
We’ll look at the records that are available, and some strategies, databases and new tools that can help us go beyond the early parish registers and more familiar records. We’ll also include some ideas for working together and collaborating with other experts and project groups so that everyone can benefit from shared knowledge and skills, creating resources that will help family historians now and in the future.
I hope the talk will encourage you to explore further and give you some new ways to think about your ancestors and the context of their lives.
The aims of the Society are
To collect all references to the EAST/ESTE(S) name and all variations, to collate and store these records and to make them available to all members.
To produce a Newsletter at least once per year to be distributed to all members, the cost of which to be covered by subscriptions and to make articles of interest available on the website.
To advertise the Society’s existence, thus bringing as many researchers of the names EAST/ESTE(S) etc. as possible into contact with each other.