Family History

A very friendly and supportive group at the Mechanics Institute: some members have a lot of experience in researching family history, others only a little, but everyone helps one another. Some meetings look at a particular topic or have a speaker, and there are occasional visits, such as to a local studies library or a guided tour of the police museum. At one recent meeting members brought objects and information that had helped them uncover their ancestors' lives, from newspaper reports that revealed a great great grandfather's part in village life, and another family's bigamist, to a christening cap and a family tree used to verify details.