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- Category: 1 Drafts in Progress
- Category: 17th Century 1600-1699
- Category: 18th Century 1700-1799
- Benefits of the Wills Beneficiary Index (WBI)
- Winchester Independent Register – RG4-726
- Don’t Always Believe It Update
- “Lost” an Ancestor before 1837
- HGS Hampshire Monumental Inscriptions Index
- Bignell Family Bible
- Hampshire Children in Manchester Cotton Mill
- Family Tragedy in 19th Century East Tisted
- How Wills Can Help your Family History Research
- Why Choose Australia as a Penal Colony?
- Category: 19th Century 1800-1899
- Protestant Dissenters Burials Grounds
- Young Lovers in Alton
- Portsmouth Road Names
- Discord in Marriage
- Bigamy in 1820
- Tragedy off Hurst Castle
- Poor Law Union Gazette – 2
- Poor Law Union Gazette – 1
- Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum
- Portsmouth Independent Orange Street Register
- Hardship Cases in a Portsmouth Court – Correction
- MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION CORRECTIONS
- Odiham School Teacher
- Inquest verdict of Visitation of God
- Harmony Hall later Queenwood College
- Uncle Tom of Portsmouth
- Fordingbridge Rabies Death
- Help from Memorial Inscriptions
- Death Notices in Old Hampshire Newspapers
- West Meon Infanticide 1830
- Greywell Remarriage in 1855
- Hampshire Murder in Swanwick, 1899
- 1855 Portsea Hospital Bed Shortage
- Portsmouth Police Gas Explosion in 1855
- Who was Sweet Fanny Adams?
- Hardship Cases in a Portsmouth Court
- Solent Tragedy of Gosport Men 1810
- Italian Immigrants in 1861 Hampshire
- Early Cremation of a Portsmouth Man 1900
- Destitute Woman Transported by Portsmouth Court – 1810
- Portsmouth Bigamy Intrigue
- English man dies in Newburgh New York – 1850
- Punishment in Hampshire Quarter Session Courts – 1800
- Portsmouth Couple Married in India – 1899
- Quarter Sessions Court Report 1817
- National Archives Immigration Records Online
- A Hampshire Divorce in 1890
- Tithe Maps at the National Archives
- A Hampshire History of Immigration and Emigration
- Railway Records
- Useful Research Source Material: Auction Sale Notices
- Palmerston’s Folly – The Story of Portsmouth’s Forts
- Victorian Baby Farming
- Category: 20th Century 1900-1999
- Knowle War Memorial
- RIP Private Herbert Frank French
- Can you help
- RIP Gunner William Talmage
- Hampshire Centenarian
- Memories of World War Two Southampton
- Old Newspaper Articles and Research
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Portsmouth & Southampton Memorials
- A Hampshire Picture Mystery
- A Delightful WWI Artefact
- Category: ABOUT
- Category: Alton
- Category: Alton Group
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- Category: Archives Records and Collections
- Home Guard Names in the Hampshire Record Office
- Using DNA as a Tool in Family History
- Winchester’s Military Museums
- National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth
- Aldershot Army Museum
- Wills and How to Find Them
- Commonly Used Family History Abbreviations
- Parishes in 1851 Census Hampshire and IOW Listed by Parish / Place
- Parishes in 1851 Census Hampshire and IOW by Volume
- Category: Baptism Indexes
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Events
- Guided Walk
- Members’ Evening - Memorial cards, newspaper reports, obituaries
- Matters of Grave Concern - Jane Painter
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Christmas Festivities - Members only Quiz and Buffet
- Basingstoke Workhouse - Barbara Large
- Members' Evening - Newspapers Online and how to search them
- Summer Function. Members only visit to the Mayor’s Parlour.
- Members’ Presentations - DNA Findings
- Civil Registration: A Registrar’s View - Antony Marr
- Prisoners of War in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1814 - Abigail Coppins
- Members' Afternoon - Looking at results of Ancestry DNA tests
- Quiz and Christmas Tea Party
- D-Day Connections - Tony Tweddle
- Members' Afternoon - 'A mystery in your Family History?'
- Sentiments in Silk - Neil Littleales
- HGS Bookstall will be at the West Surrey FHS Open Day, Woking Leisure Centre, Surrey
- HGS Bookstall at the Oxfordshire Family History Show
- HGS Bookstall at the 'The Family History Show' York
- HGS Bookstall at the Bristol & Avon Family History Show
- HGS Bookstall at the 'The Family History Show' London
- HGS Bookstall at 'The Family History Show' Bristol
- HGS Bookstall at the Shropshire Family History Show
- HGS Bookstall at the HGS Open Day 2019
- Members' Evening - Christmas Festivities
- Tracing my German Ancestors - Paul Pinhorne, Chairman HGS
- Members' Evening - The biggest mistake in my Family History research
- Dead, but still things to tell us - Ann McKenzie
- Members' Evening - Where have you got with your research?
- Rural Ancestors - Brenda Goddard
- Is Granny on the WEB? - Pat Hilbert
- Inaugural Meeting - Research Centre, Bookstall & Brains Trust
- Summer Break - No meeting
- Tracing Your London Ancestors - Jane Fox
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- What the Butler Saw - Bob France, followed by an American Supper
- Christmas Festivities
- Thames Watermen - Pat Hibert
- Research in the 20th Century - Ian Waller
- Black Sheep: There's one in every family - Colin Moretti
- Members' Evening - Skittles
- Members' Evening - Member's Stories
- Members' Evening - The HGS Project
- Genetics for the Family Historian - Heather Seeley
- Tracing Your London Ancestors - Jane Fox
- On the move - Daphne Austin
- The sad story of Harriet Anstey - Barry Jolly
- WW1: The great railway war - Tony Babb
- To Russia without 007 - Audrey Vincent.
- Members' Evening - My overseas cousins
- Tales from St. Mark’s churchyard - Audrey Brinsford *** Note change of date!
- How our Ancestors Died - Simon Wills
- Tracing my German Ancestors - Paul Pinhorne, Chairman HGS
- Members' Evening - Wills & Beneficiaries' Project
- Social Event - Skittles Evening @ 7:15pm. Please note this is a TUESDAY, not the usual Thursday.
- Bob France: The Butler’s Christmas (in Victorian Costume), followed by an American Supper
- Family History Quiz, Family History Miscellaneous, Society Pop-up Bookshop
- Heads of households, alternatives to the census - Colin Moretti
- The French Church: Responses to Immigration in the sixteenth century - Cheryl Butler
- Members' Outing
- Summer Break - No meeting
- Members’ Evening
- Animals of WW1 - Tony Babb
- Members’ Evening
- Summer Break - No meeting
- Researching my Grandfathers - Alan Petrie
- Secrets and Lies - Dr Frances Hurd
- Summer Break - No meeting
- Vagrants and Paupers: the history of poverty and poor relief from medieval times to the Welfare State - Jan Smith
- Christmas Meeting
- DNA Testing - Laura House
- Members’ Evening
- Dating Old Photographs - Jane Fox
- Members’ Evening
- Shipwrecks in World War I - Simon Wills
- My Genealogical Journey - Phil Brown
- Tracing Your London Ancestors - Jane Fox
- Members’ Evening
- Searching for Ancestors When You’re Adopted - Penny Walters
- Family History Open Evening - OPEN TO ALL!!!
- My Genealogical Journey - Phil Brown
- Stroppy Women - Cheryl Butler
- To the End of their Days - Tony Cross
- *** Due to the unavailability of the speaker, tonight's meeting will be a Members' Evening.
- Christmas Social
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Members’ Evening - Our missing children
- What happened to Lucy? - Ian Waller
- Christmas Meeting: Pantomime and the role of the Dame – John Pitman
- Family Legends, Part II: A Family of Soldiers – Kay Lovell
- Searching for Surnames: Challenges, Pitfalls and the Downright Ridiculous – Kirsty Gray
- Members’ Evening – “My Genealogical Journey” by Phil Brown
- Summer Break: No meeting
- Opening the Box: Research, Genealogy & Skeletons – Tony Babb
- Adoption - Penny Walters
- AGM and Members’ Talks
- A Grandmother's Legacy - Jenny Mallin
- Portsmouth - Harlots, Dung and Glory - Andrew Negus
- Christmas Party
- The History and Mystery of Maps - Tony Painter
- Who the hell is Arthur? - Neil Littleales
- A Grandmother’s Legacy - Jenny Mallin
- Members’ Evening - Peter's Choice!
- Members’ Evening –The HGS Website, HGS Facebook Page [Please note this is Tuesday]
- How to Write Your Family History: Session 2 – Chris Lightfoot
- How to Write Your Family History: Session 1 – Chris Lightfoot
- Guided Walk of Winchester
- Members’ Evening – What is your ‘date to remember’?
- A Date to Remember – Jane Fox
- Summer Outing: Guided Walk of Botley - Eric Reed
- Shipwrecks in World War I - Simon Wills
- Suffering Suffragettes - Jane Glennie
- Suffering Suffragettes - Jane Glennie
- To the End of their Days - Tony Cross
- Members’ Evening - To be arranged
- Member’s Evening – To be Arranged
- Anne’s Hill Cemetery - Dave Stubbington
- Village life in the 40’s and 50’s - John Pitman
- The first Lady Mayor of Christchurch - Josephine Spencer
- Tracing my German Ancestors – Paul Pinhorne
- The Hampshire Regiment: VC’s of WW1 - Nick Saunders
- Members’ Evening - Stories from WW2 (Note: This is a change from the scheduled talk.)
- Causes of Death - Simon Wills
- Drovers: how they shaped our landscape - Maggie Eltham
- Tracing my German Ancestors – Paul Pinhorne
- Members' Evening - What were your ancestors doing in 1819/1919?’ (Please note the meeting is on Tuesday.)
- Winchester: Bishops, buildings and bones 1100-1600 - Andrew Negus
- The Colours of Heraldry: Basic Heraldry - Les Mitchinson
- One for the Boy's and Something for the Girl's - An illustrated talk by Nigel Gossop
- Hidden Depths: The work of Women in the RNLI - Sue Hennessy
- School Records - George Yalden
- Members' Evening - Share your problems and successes
- A Hampshire house and a lost village - Rosemary & Graham Mist with Romaine Locke
- Members' Evening – What did your ancestor do to earn a crust?
- Bakers of Fleet - Geoff Baker
- HGS Bookstall at 'THE Genealogy Show' at the NEC
- HGS Pop-up Bookstall will be at the Gosport Group meeting
- HGS Pop-up Bookstall will be at the Alton Group meeting
- HGS Bookstall at 'Family Tree Live' Alexandra Palace
- HGS Bookstall at 'THE Genealogy Show' at the NEC
- Dad’s Army: Fact or fiction - Steve Roberts
- Unusual Sources - Daphne Austin
- Members' Evening - My ancestors lived here
- History of Hampshire in 10 Objects - Tony Cross
- Members' Evening + HGS Pop-up Bookstall
- 100 Years of My Family - Rex Barham
- Members’ Workshop Transcribing records for HGS
- Members’ Presentations - Medals, Any medals
- Tracing Your London Ancestors - Jane Fox
- Genealogy Story - Martin Harmer
- Members’ Evening
- Women, Work & Wool: The Women of Tudor Southampton - Cheryl Butler
- World War II Secrets of Eastleigh Carriage Works - Chris Humby
- Members’ Evening
- Tracing Your London Ancestors - Jane Fox
- Members’ Evening + HGS Bookstall
- Old Bishopstoke Schools - Chris Humby
- *** No meeting ***
- Missing Deaths – Simon Wills
- Members’ Workshop Evening – working together to transcribe data for the HGS “Wills Beneficiaries Index”
- Searching for Ancestors when you’re Adopted - Dr Penny Walker
- Members’ Evening - Annual Review + tba
- Members’ Evening - Problems & Successes + HGS Pop-up Bookstall
- Paupers, Peasants & Proletariats – Elaine Boyes, plus HGS Pop-up Bookstall
- “Oooh, the joy of an old newspaper!” - Jane Painter & Chris Pavey
- Winchester: Bishops, buildings and bones Part 2 - Andrew Negus
- “Oooh, the joy of an old newspaper!” - Jane Painter & Chris Pavey
- HGS Pop-up Bookstall will be at the Andover Group meeting
- HGS Pop-up Bookstall will be at the Portsmouth Group meeting
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Afternoon Group meeting
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Fleet & Farnborough Group meeting
- Murder, Desertion and Death - Mike Hobbs
- Christmas Event - Come along and build a "Christmas (Family) Tree" under the guidance of Jane Fox.
- Portsmouth: The Home Front - Chris Pennycook
- An HGS Research Project based on editions of the Hampshire Observer - led by Jane & Chris
- Southampton: Water, Slaughter & Trade - Andrew Negus
- Members' Evening - A family story using tips from our September talk on 'Writing your Family History'
- Christmas Social
- Pilgrim Fathers - Dennis Boylen
- Open Mornings at The Meeting House: Monday July 16th - Saturday 28th July
- Members’ Evening - Share Mince Pies and a Family Card
- Don’t Believe Everything You’re Told - Jane Fox
- Researching a House - Jane Hurst
- ***Summer break - Meetings resume in September***
- ***Summer Break - No meeting***
- Visit to Little Woodham 17th Century Village
- Christmas Social
- The Story of Itchen Ferry Village - Cheryl Butler
- Members’ Evening
- How I Traced My German Ancestors - Paul Pinhorne
- Summer Outing – Guided Walk of West End - Eric Reed
- 'The Great War - a Local Perspective’ - Tony Cross
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- Writing your Family History - Chris Lightfoot
- HGS Bookstall at the 'The Name Event' - 5th & 6th May - advance tickets only
- French P.O.W s in Hampshire - Paul Chamberlain
- Stroppy Women! Women who shaped the history of Southampton - Cheryl Butler
- On-line Newspapers - Colin Moretti
- The Crinoline Church - Dennis Bill
- A special Gentleman: William Bunce K.P.M. 1904 -20
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Members’ Evening: ‘Not A lot of People Know This’
- How I found my German ancestors - Paul Pinhorne
- HGS Bookstall at the Wiltshire Family History Show
- Winchester Part 1 - Andrew Negus
- Stroppy Women! Women who shaped the history of Southampton - Cheryl Butler
- Women on the Railways - Dr. Becky Peacock
- Animals in WW1 - Tony Babb
- An Orderly Abroad - Andy Skinner
- Members’ Evening
- Members’ Evening - 5 minute talks
- Members’ Evening - 5 minute talks on 'Unusual causes of death'
- Marmalade, Spuds & A Bag of Gold: Gift Giving in Tudor Southampton - Cheryl Butler. To be followed by Christmas buffet.
- An open invitation to meet Ringwood HGS members and learn about researching your family history.
- Members’ Display & Presentations: Inspired by Beaulieu
- Members' Evening - The Biggest Mistake in my Family History Research
- Marmalade, Spuds & A Bag of Gold: Gift Giving in Tudor Southampton - Cheryl Butler
- Winchester: Bishops, buildings and bones - Andrew Negus
- The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) to 1918 - Tony Babb
- Members’ Evening: What did your ancestor do?
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- Members' only visit to Titchfield with Andrew Negus
- Members' Evening - Christmas Festivities
- The Victoria Cross awards to the Hants Regiment in WW1 - Nick Saunders
- Strangers and Aliens - Cheryl Butler
- Causes of Death – Simon Wills
- Skittles Night – Members only
- Tiny things - Daphne Austin
- Where did that name come from? - John Heighes
- Smuggling in Christchurch: fact or fiction - Mike Andrews
- Broadlands - Phoebe Merrick
- Members’ Evening - I can’t find it anywhere!
- The memorials in St. Mark’s church - Audrey Brinsford & John Heighes
- Christmas Party
- How Life Changed Forever in 1914 - Anne Carter – A Federation of Family History Societies’ speaker
- Portsmouth: Harlots, Dung & Glory - Andrew Negus, Historian and Blue Badge Guide
- Members’ Evening - What did you find in the newspapers?
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Our Christmas Function
- Getting the best from The National Archives & its Website - Simon Fowler
- Members’ Presentations / Discussions - Anything you like!
- Pre 1841 census sources - Speaker: Ian Waller
- Members’ Presentations: The story behind a photograph, postcard or letter
- *** Summer Break - No Meeting ***
- *** Summer Break - No Meeting ***
- *** Summer Break - No Meeting ***
- Online Newspapers – Colin Moretti
- Priddy’s People – Daniel Ball
- *** Please note that the meeting has been cancelled as England is playing in the World Cup!
- Members’ Evening
- Christmas Get Together
- Family Legends - Kay Lovell
- Messages from the Front – Margaret Braddock
- Christmas Meeting + HGS Pop-up Bookstall
- Memories of a Guernsey Deportee - Mike Martel
- Breaking down Brickwalls - Ian Waller
- Cabinet of Curiosities - Charles Kaye
- Members’ Evening
- Irish Research - Les Mitchinson
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- Untitled Event
- Members’ Evening: A follow up to February's talk [Note: this is Tuesday due to Bank Holiday Monday]
- Members’ Evening: A follow up to Jane Fox February talk [Note: this is Tuesday due to Bank Holiday Monday]
- Documenting your family history - Jane Fox [Note: change to speaker]
- HGS Bookstall at the 'The London Family History Show'
- Suffragettes - Paul King
- A special Gentleman: William Bunce K.P.M. 1904 -2001 - Ruth Warren
- HGS Bookstall at the SWAG (South Western Area Group of FH Societies) Fair
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Basingstoke Local & Family History Day
- HGS Bookstall at the Dorset FHS Open Day
- HGS Bookstall at the Wiltshire Family History Day
- My Life in the Foundling Hospital School - Lydia Chamberlain
- Customs and Costumes of Mourning - Stella Bond
- How can memorabilia help with Family History - Elizabeth Owen
- Members’ Evening
- Members’ Evening
- Members’ Evening - My Indispensable Book + HGS Bookstall (Note: this is the second Monday of the month)
- Member’s Evening – A Family Heirloom
- HGS Bookstall at the 'Family History Show’
- HGS Bookstall at the HGS Conference Day 2018
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Romsey Group meeting
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Fair Oak Group meeting
- Portsmouth - Harlots, Dung and Glory: part 2 - Andrew Negus
- Members’ Meeting - Crime!
- Napoleonic Prisoners of War - Tony Cross
- Members’ Evening: Annual Review + Share Your Family’s W.W.I Experiences
- Village life in the 1940’s and 1950’s – John Pitman
- The GRO Index – Just How Accurate Is It? - Celia Heritage
- Hengistbury Head - Steve Roberts
- Using maps - Les Mitchinson
- Tales from the laundry - Barry Jolly
- Lest we forget - Audrey Brinsford
- A walk round Milton Green - Nick Saunders
- Members’ Evening - Food as mother made it
- Members’ Evening
- Village Life in the 40’s and 50’s – John Pitman
- Tracing my German Ancestors – Paul Pinhorne
- Basingstoke Borough Police - Bob Clarke, Local Historian & Author of Drunkards, Thieves and Rioters and the Basingstoke Borough Police 1836-1889
- Female Inebriates in Victorian England - Jane Fox
- Sold, Separated or Divorced - Ian Waller
- AGM & Members' Talk
- Death Records - Jane Fox
- Members’ Discussions: Ancestry or FindMyPast? / Saving your Research
- Lost in London - David Annal
- Members’ Presentations What got you started?
- My Life as a Deportee from Jersey to Germany - Mike Martel
- Members’ Presentations: What I found in the Record Office
- The History of the Ordnance Survey - Geoff May
- Is Granny on the WEB? - Pat Hilbert
- Wig powder, Matches and Wine, the Excise at work in the 1700s - Phoebe Merrick
- Getting to know the 1939 Register - Pat & George Hilbert
- A Sailor in the Victorian Navy - Alan Brown
- How to Write Up Your Family History - Chris Lightfoot
- How Our Ancestors Died - Simon Wills
- Violet’s Titanic Escape- Jane Glennie
- Members’ Evening plus HGS Bookstall
- 'Up With the Lark – Agricultural Labourers’ – Ian Waller [Note: this is a Tuesday.]
- Dating Family Photographs – Jane Fox
- ‘Napoleon’s Lost Soldiers and Seamen: French Prisoners of War in Hampshire’ – Paul Chamberlain
- Writing your Family History - Chris Lightfoot, founder of iScribbles
- DNA Testing & Me: discovering new cousins and cracking brick walls - Rosemary and Graham Mist
- Basingstoke Canal: Heroes and Villans - Roger Cansdale, The Basingstoke Canal Society
- Tubby, Talbot House and Toc H - Neil Bond
- Members’ Evening
- Searching for Surnames: Challenges – Kirsty Gray
- British foreign soldiers during the Napoleonic wars, husbands and fathers – Alistair Nichols
- The Rise of the Railway: Part 2 - Chris Humby
- The Rise of the Railway: Part 2 - Chris Humby
- The Rise of the Railway: Part 2 - Chris Humby
- The Rise of the Railway: Part 2 - Chris Humby
- Members’ Evening plus HGS Bookstall
- Don't Throw That Out! The Delights of Ephemera - Jane Howells
- The Rise of the Railway – Part 2 - Chris Humby
- Members’ Evening: A focus on 1917
- Members’ Presentations: My Poor Relation
- Beggars, Rogues & Vagabonds – Dr Cheryl Butler
- Pilgrim Fathers – Dennis Boylen
- Members’ Evening: Scottish and Irish Resources
- HGS Bookstall will be at the West Surrey FHS Open Day, Woking Leisure Centre, Surrey
- Members’ Presentations: My Immigrant / Emigrant Ancestor
- Women Artists of the Great War – Jane Fox
- Members' Evening – Focus on WW2
- Lest We Forget - Geoff Watts
- HGS Bookstall at the HGS Open Day 2017
- HGS Open Day
- Southwick, the Priory and the Peculiar - Harvey Griffiths ***Please note change of talk
- Pantomime and the role of the Dame - John Pitman - following by Christmas fare!
- HGS Bookstall at the 'Family History Show’
- Hancock's Quest - Kevin Patience
- Southwick Priory - Harvey Griffiths
- Southwick Priory - Harvey Griffiths
- 'The brickwall of missing deaths' - Simon Wills
- Causes of Death - Simon Wills
- 'The brickwall of missing deaths' - Simon Wills
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- Members’ Evening: Share a Mince Pie and 'A Family Event'
- A Forgotten WW1 War Memorial - Alan Swain
- Manorial Records - Colin Moretti
- On the trail of Portsmouth Children's Adventure Writer Percy F Westerman - Nigel Gossop
- Christmas quiz and buffet!
- Amazing Animals of WW1 - Tony Babb
- Members' Evening - Genealogy Problem Solving *** Note change of date to FOURTH Thursday ***
- Members' Evening - Five Minute Pitch on Research
- Open Mornings at The Meeting House: Monday July 10th - Saturday 22nd July
- Carlton Crescent & Rockstone Place - Jake Simpkin
- The Tragic Life of Ellen Wren - Andy Skinner
- Open Evening at The Meeting House
- HGS at Andover Library
- Christmas Evening
- A Journey in Search of Convict Ancestors - Judy Davies
- Twentieth Century Research - Ian Waller
- "The Butler's Christmas" followed by an American Supper
- Members' only visit to the 'HMS Hear My Story Gallery' at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth Dockyard
- *** Please note that there will be NO MEETING on 8th June as the hall is being used as a polling station ***
- Members’ Evening: “Are we related?"- my search in US records - Gordon Young
- Members' Social Event - Winchester Military Museums
- Open Mornings at The Meeting House: Monday July 10th through Saturday 22nd July
- The Quaker Businesses in Britain - John Avery
- History & Development of the Fire Service – Alan House
- HGS Bookstall at the Wiltshire Family History Day
- Members' Evening – ‘Computer evening - Learning and Sharing of the Internet’
- Members’ Evening - What my relative did during the War
- Members' Evening - Finding what your ancestors did for a living, and what this means today.
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- Members’ Presentations: WW2 – Britain at Home
- Dating Old Photos: a short talk followed by a workshop activity - Jane Fox
- AGM & Members' Talk by Dominic Harper *** NB This is the FIRST Thursday of the month (not the usual second)
- Southampton: Water, Slaughter & Trade - Andrew Negus
- Vaccination - Benjamin Jesty & the Dorset Dairy Maids - Helen Jesty
- Manorial Records – Les Mitchinson **Please note this is the 3rd Friday***
- A Brief Introduction to Heraldry – Malcolm Heathcote
- Members’ Presentations: What did you find in the 1939 Register?
- Harlots, Dung and Glory: part 3 of the history of Portsmouth - Andrew Negus
- Members' Evening - Family Heirlooms - a chance to show or talk about an item that's precious to you.
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Fair Oak meeting
- Members’ Evening plus HGS Bookstall
- Napoleonic Prisoner of War Work: some Hampshire connections - Tony Cross, former Curator of the Curtis Museum, Alton
- ‘Read All About It!’ Using Newspapers for Family History Research – Jane Fox
- Napoleonic Prisoner of War Work: some Hampshire connections - Tony Cross, former Curator of the Curtis Museum, Alton
- British Home Children - Margaret Bowman, HGS Andover Group
- Members' Evening - Family Secrets
- Harlots, Dung & Glory - Andrew Negus, Historian and Blue Badge Guide
- British Relatives Overseas - Else Churchill, Society of Genealogy (SoG)
- Writing Your Family History - Chris Lightfoot, founder of iScribbles
- LIFE AS A DEPORTEE FROM GUERNSEY TO GERMANY DURING WWII - Mike Martel
- Tales from the Register Office - Lucinda Thursfield, a retired Superintendent Registrar for Hampshire
- Christmas Party
- HMS Hear My Story: The Last 100 Years - Jo Valentine
- Members' Evening - Christmas Festivities
- Riots, Randies and women not their wives – Chris and Judy Rouse
- Skittles Night – Members only
- The GRO Index – Just How Accurate Is It? - Celia Heritage ***Please note this is Tuesday due to the Bank Holiday
- The Story of the Africa Queen - Kevin Patience
- Southampton & Risborough: train ferry history - John Fish
- What’s in a name...? - Cheryl Butler
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- Christmas Social
- Harry Tate’s Navy – Tony Betts
- *** No meeting
- Gosport Masonic Roll of Honour – Steve Frost
- Ancestors from Victorian London – Geoff and Jane Piper
- Members’ Evening
- 'Taking the Flounce' – Jane Austen & Southampton - Cheryl Butler
- Christmas Social
- Don’t Believe Everything You’re Told! - Jane Fox
- Guided Walk of West End - Eric Reed
- A History of Hampshire Through Ten Objects - Tony Cross
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti
- Sold, Separated or Divorced - Ian Waller
- Our Christmas Function
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Members’ Show & Tell: My Heirloom
- The Parish Chest - Ann McKenzie
- Christmas Get Together
- Lifting the lid of the Parish Chest – Ann Mckenzie
- *** No meeting ***
- What the Butler Saw! – John Pitman
- There is one in every family - Black Sheep! - Colin Moretti
- "Don't throw that out!": the delights of ephemera - Dr Jane Howells
- Pompey PALS Project - Chris Pennycook
- Pompey PALS Project - Chris Pennycook *** CANCELLED *** due to the weather warnings
- Searching for Surnames: Challenges, Pitfalls and the Downright Ridiculous - Kirsty Gray
- Hidden Mormon Ancestors - Maggie Eltham
- Members’ Evening: Sharing ideas for the way ahead
- Members’ Evening
- Writing your Family History - Chris Lightfoot
- *** No meeting ***
- Members’ Presentations: My Immigrant / Emigrant Ancestor
- Members’ Presentations: My Ancestor told fibs!
- WW2 POW Camps: Basingstoke - Geoff Palmer
- Toll Roads, Turnpikes and the A30 - Jane Hussey
- Members’ Presentations: What did you find in the 1939 Register?
- Where there’s a will, there’s a way - Ken Smallbone
- Members’ Presentations: WW2 – Britain at Home
- The Cowboy, the Revolutionary and the Novelist – Graham Spiller
- Deaf Robert, Lame Basil and Blind Peter - Cheryl Butler
- Members’ Evening: What did you find in the newspapers?
- Fireman in WW2 – Alan House
- Curiouser and curiouser – Geoff Watts
- Life in the fairground – Kay Townsend
- ** No meeting in January **
- Members’ Evening: including a talk by Gordon Young on his family history & the start of the oil industry
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- The HGS Web Site - Gwen Newland
- Members’ Evening: Annual Review + ‘This has helped me with my Research’
- Members’ Evening: Have you found anything in the Parish Chest?
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- *** We do not meet in January and February - meetings will resume in March - check back for programme details.
- *** We do not meet in January and February - meetings will resume in March - check back for programme details.
- Christmas Tea Party - Join us for Christmas nibbles!
- ‘Turn Left at the Hippos' - Lucinda Thursfield
- Restoring Old Photographs - David Tipper
- The Tichbourne Case – John Avery
- *** No meeting as it is Easter Monday ***
- Carlton Crescent and Rockstone Place - Jake Simpkin
- Writing your family history - Chris Lightfoot
- Members’ Evening
- The Tichbourne Case – John Avery
- Gosport slide show – Bob Harrop
- Romsey Prisoner of War Camp - Phoebe Merrick
- The Cholera Years - John Avery ***Please note - First Friday to avoid Good Friday.
- A Walk Through the History of New Milton - Nick Saunders
- Westover Hall alias The Beach House - Daphne Austin
- Members' Evening - My Lucky Break
- Members' Evening
- Harlots, Dung & Glory: Part 3 - Andrew Negus
- ‘Read All About It!’ Using Newspapers for Family History Research – Jane Fox
- Frank Norman Fox - Jane Fox
- Members’ Evening
- Winchester - Andrew Negus
- HGS Resources - Dolina Clarke, Chairman, HGS
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- LOCAL HISTORY DAY at ALTON Assembly Rooms
- Members' Afternoon - Introduction to the HGS Website plus "A murderer and a felon transported to Australia"
- The Rise of the Railway: Part 1 - Chris Humby
- The Fire Services During World War II - Alan House
- Alton’s Early Photographers - Jane Hurst [NB Change to programme]
- 'Publish and Be Thanked' or how to turn your research into a book - Barrie Lees
- Members’ Evening: Share a Mince Pie and a Family Secret.
- Railway Ancestors - George Yalden
- Christmas Party
- Lost in the Fall of Singapore: My search for Leonard Webber - John Bowman
- Causes of Death – Dr Simon Wills
- Maritime Ancestors - Dr Simon Wills
- Members’ Evening: Learning and Sharing
- Open Day at Fleet Library
- HGS Bookstall will be at the Basingstoke Local & Family History Day
- "Victorian Humour" A Magic Lantern Show - Alan Brindle
- Members’ Evening
- Heir Hunters - Beverley Walker
- The Census - George Yalden
- Stories from the Wickham Memorial Project – Jane Painter
- Tracing your London Ancestors - Jane Fox
- Don't Believe Everything You're Told – Jane Fox
- The Role of Women in WW1 - Charles Haskell, Director, World War 1 Remembrance Centre, Fort Widley, Portsmouth
- The Quaker Businesses in Britain - John Avery, presenter of heritage talks
- The Life and Times of Charles Delafaye, an 18th Century Huguenot and Freemason - Graham Mist
- HGS Bookstall will be at the West Surrey FHS Open Day Woking Leisure Centre, Surrey
- Members' Evening – To be Arranged
- Lest We Forget - Geoff Watts
- Harlots, Dung and Glory: Part 1 - Andrew Negus
- Conscientious Objectors - Jane Hussey