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- Category: 17th Century 1600-1699
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- 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
- The Name Game
- Protestant Dissenters Burials Grounds
- Young Lovers in Alton
- Portsmouth Road Names (Then and Now)
- Discord in Marriage
- Bigamy in 1820
- Tragedy off Hurst Castle
- Poor Law Union Gazette – 2
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- 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 re-marriage 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 Hampshire in 1861
- 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
- Online VE Day event
- Spanish Flu: 1918-1920
- Knowle War Memorial
- RIP Private Herbert Frank French
- Can you help
- RIP Gunner William Talmage
- Hampshire Centenarian
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- Old newspaper articles and research
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- A Hampshire picture mystery
- A Delightful WWI Artefact
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- Using DNA as a tool in family history
- Winchester’s Military Museums
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- 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
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- HGS/HRO Joint Press Release
- Family History research project – Invitation to participate
- Over 50,000 Hampshire records added to Findmypast
- Hampshire Archives and Local Studies has re-opened!
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Events
- My Czech Roots – Margaret Bowman
- The Civil War in Hampshire – Alan Turton
- Members’ Evening – Funny Stories
- Searching for Dora – Les Mitchinson
- Our Embarrassing Ancestors – Janet Few - via Zoom
- Members’ Evening: Quiz - via Zoom
- Christmas Social
- The Royal Hampshire Regiment 1702-1992 - Ian Taylor
- Vagrants, Paupers … and the Welfare State - Jan Smith
- Members’ Evening
- Summer Outing - Guided Walk of North Stoneham - Eric Reed
- A History of Hampshire – Continued - Tony Cross
- Who Were the Swing Rioters? - Elaine Boyes
- The Lady in the Yellow Caravan - Jane Glennie
- Southampton City Buses in the Post-War Period - David Hutchings
- Members’ Evening & HGS Bookstall
- Demystifying DNA - Neil Littleales - via Zoom
- The 1939 Register - Peter Dulin - via Zoom
- Henry Smith, a most notorious, naughty, false, lying fellow, a global black sheep or a maligned character? - Sue Paul - via Zoom
- Female Inebriates in Victorian England - Jane Fox - via Zoom
- Four Merchant Seamen from Southampton - Mike Hobbs - via Zoom
- My family and other Smugglers - Roger Gutteridge - via Zoom
- *** No Meeting - Christmas Greetings! ***
- Christmas Meeting - In-Person
- My Seafaring Ancestors - Kay Lovell - via Zoom
- Digging Deeper into Family History Sources - Jan Smith - via Zoom
- Birth & Death: The Hidden Secrets of Registration - Antony Marr - via Zoom
- Members’ Evening: Strange, interesting or unusual finds from your research into births and deaths - via Zoom
- My Grandma’s Birthday Book - Fiona Ranger
- Members’ Evening: What you learnt or did over the Covid break! - In-person
- A Plague upon all your Houses - Janet Few - via Zoom
- Ratcatchers - David Cuffley - via Zoom
- Members' Visit to Burseldon Brickworks
- Members' Meeting - Problems and Successes
- Sacrifice & Remembrance - Jeremy Prescott - via Zoom
- A Ringwood Incident - Ken Chatfield at the Ringwood Meeting House at the earlier time of 7:00 pm
- Members' Summer Social
- The pursuit & sinking of the Bismark - David Bickerton - via Zoom
- Members' Event - Christmas Festivities - 3pm
- Pubs & Publicans - Kay Lovell - via Zoom
- Quarantine & Social Distancing in Tudor times - Cheryl Butler - via Zoom
- Members' Summer Social - Cream Tea at Stewarts Garden Centre - 3pm
- Victorian Merchant Navy - Simon Wills - via Zoom
- Members' Evening - In-person (weather dependant)
- Christmas Party
- Grandmother’s Kitchen At Christmas - Jenny Mallin
- Members’ Evening: ‘A Working Man’s Home with a Touch of Temperance’ by Margaret Rose & ‘Odiham Prisoners of War’ by Mary McLaren.
- Winchester, Bishops, Buildings And Bones - Andrew Negus
- ** No meeting in August **
- The Art Of Criminal Conversation - Claire Moores - via Zoom
- Hidden in plain site - Amelia Bennett - via Zoom
- Christmas traditions in Britain - Kay Lovell - via Zoom [10am GMT]
- Finding Records for your English and Welsh Ancestors - Fiona Ranger - via Zoom [8pm BST]
- Christmas Social - In-Person
- Getting the best from the National Archives and its Website - Simon Fowler - via Zoom
- DNA in Family History - Graham & Rosemary Mist - In-Person & Zoom
- HGS Website - Elaine Boyes & Gwen Newland - In-Person & Zoom
- Members' Meeting - Topic to be advised - via Zoom
- Old Maps - Tony Painter - In-Person
- 20 million bricks: The history of Bursledon Brickworks - Richard Newman - via Zoom [10am BST]
- Royal Flying Corps and Hampshire - Colonel Paul Beaver - via Zoom [8pm BST]
- *** Summer Break - No Meeting ***
- *** Summer Break - No Meeting ***
- Bricks and Brickmaking - David Cufley - via Zoom
- Members' Evening –TBC - via Zoom
- Postman, Customs Officers and Others of that Ilk - Alan Ruston - via Zoom
- Conserving Your Family Archive - Sue Gibbons - via Zoom
- The History of Family Photography - Stephen Gill - via Zoom
- Christmas traditions in Britain - Kay Lovell - via Zoom [8pm GMT]
- Finding Records for your English and Welsh Ancestors - Fiona Ranger - via Zoom [10am BST]
- 20 million bricks: The history of Bursledon Brickworks - Richard Newman - via Zoom [8pm BST]
- Royal Flying Corps and Hampshire - Colonel Paul Beaver - via Zoom [10am BST]
- Tracing your Tudor & Stuart Ancestors - Gill Blanchard - via Zoom
- Sons of the Soil: Researching our agricultural labouring ancestors - Janet Few - via Zoom
- A Schoolgirl’s War - Mary Smith Jones - Zoom
- Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy - Dr Penny Walters - via Zoom
- Members' Afternoon - 'Get outta my pub!' - my brewery or publican ancestor - via Zoom
- High Up - Daphne Austin
- Music of the Victorian Era – Brenda Marvin
- Members’ Evening- Societies and What They Offer
- WWII Names On Highcliffe War Memorial - Audrey Brinsford
- Members’ Evening - Recent Family History Finds
- *** Meeting Cancelled ***
- The Rise of the Railway: Part 2 - Chris Humby
- ** No meeting in August **
- Victoria Cross Awards of the Hampshire Regiment in WW1 - Nick Saunders - via Zoom
- Research in the Court of Chancery: an introduction to Chancery Records - Colin Moretti - via Zoom
- My Seafaring Ancestors- Kay Lovell - via Zoom
- ** No meeting **
- My Grandma's Birthday Book - Fiona Ranger - via Zoom
- Our Embarrassing Ancestors - Janet Few - via Zoom [NB This is a Tuesday]
- Dad's Army: Fact and Fiction - Steve Roberts - via Zoom
- Who the hell is Arthur? - Neil Littleales - via Zoom
- AGM and Members' Talks: Family members who moved overseas - via Zoom
- Two Sets of Medals: A unique award for a Unique man - Kevin Patience via Zoom
- A History of Hampshire through 10 Objects - Tony Cross - via Zoom [8PM GMT]
- The History and Mystery of Maps - Tony Painter - In Person
- Tracing your Brewery and Publican Ancestors - Simon Fowler - via Zoom
- Members' Evening – Frankpledge and things Manorial - via Zoom
- Manorial Worth: How the manorial system operated and what records it generated - Ian Waller - via Zoom
- Sons of the Soil: Researching our agricultural labouring ancestors - Janet Few - via Zoom
- Christmas Social
- Wills Pre-1858 - Les Mitchinson
- Members’ Evening – To be Arranged
- NB: Change of speaker: Identifying and Dating Old Photographs - Stephen Gill - via Zoom
- Summer Outing: Guided Walk of Old Bursledon - Eric Reed
- World War II: Its Effects on a Small Community in Hampshire - Tony Cross - via Zoom
- Members’ Evening – To be Arranged
- Who the Hell is Arthur? - Neil Littleales - via Zoom
- 20103 - Finding My Foundling - Paul Richardson - via Zoom
- Recorded version of the “Inaugural Meeting” - via Zoom [8PM GMT]
- Inaugural Meeting - via Zoom [10AM GMT]
- Sons of the Soil (ag labs) – Janet Few - via Zoom
- Victorian Crime, Police & Criminals – Antony Marr - via Zoom
- My Ancestor was an Immigrant – Sue Gibbons - via Zoom
- Mixing DNA results and the paper trail - Penny Walters - via Zoom
- ’Roast Mongoose, anyone?’: How reliable are church registers? - Dennis Bill - via Zoom
- My Ancestors’ Travels by Sea - Simon Wills - via Zoom
- Employment Records - Colin Moretti - via Zoom
- The National Archives - Simon Fowler - via Zoom
- Paupers, Peasants or Proletariat? Who were the Swing Rioters of Winchester? - Elaine Boyes - via Zoom
- Strangers and Aliens - Cheryl Butler - via Zoom
- Who the hell is Arthur? - Neil Littleales - via Zoom
- Murder, Desertion & Death: the story of 4 Southampton seamen - Michael Hobbs - via Zoom
- Members' Evening - TBA - via Zoom
- Documenting your Family History or "How to get all of your stuff organised" - Jane Fox - via Zoom
- My Seafaring Ancestors - Kay Lovell - via Zoom
- Victorian Merchant Navy - Simon Wills - via Zoom
- Birth and Death: Hidden Secrets of Registration - Antony Marr - via Zoom
- U-Boat Enigmas - Tony Babb - via Zoom
- Sentiments in Silk - Neil Littleales - via Zoom
- ** Winter Break - Back in March - Best wishes for the New Year!
- ** Winter Break - Back in March
- ** No meeting in January - back in March - best wishes for the New Year!
- Members’ Evening: Your House History - via Zoom
- Tracing your House History - Lucy Browne - via Zoom
- An A-Z of Victorian Occupations - Kirsty Gray - via Zoom
- Birth and Death - Antony Marr - via Zoom
- Member’s Talk: From St Ives to St Bees - Geoff Key - via Zoom
- Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy - Penny Walters via Zoom
- Members’ Evening - This will include a discovery thanks to DNA- via Zoom
- Organising Your Research With Evernote - Phil Isherwood - via Zoom
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Summer Function - A walking tour of Alton with Jane Hurst
- Our Christmas Function
- Members’ Presentations - My Police Ancestors
- Dad’s Army Fact and Fiction - Steve Roberts - via Zoom
- Members’ Presentation Queries on a birth, marriage or death certificate - a chance to discuss them with the rest of the group - via Zoom
- Moving Forward: How to bring your research up to date - Antony Marr - via Zoom
- Members’ Presentation: Presentation by Jane Hussey on Education - via Zoom
- My Ancestor was a Liar: Ignorance, half-truths or wilful deceit - Dave Annal - via Zoom
- Members’ Presentation Show and Tell: Show your favourite object to the group - via Zoom
- Using Quarter Sessions Administrative Records for Family History - Claire Moores - via Zoom
- Sarah Wells: “The Worst Housekeeper” - Bob France - via Zoom
- Christmas meeting + refreshments - “Christmas Traditions Around the World” – Kay Lovell - via Zoom
- Dad’s Army Fact & Fiction – Steve Roberts - via Zoom
- Members’ Evening – 'Surprises, Shocks and Revelations' - via Zoom
- Bringing it up to date: Research in the 20th Century - Dave Annal - via Zoom
- ** No meeting in August **
- Lifting the Lid – Miranda Pender - via Zoom
- Don’t Believe Everything You’re Told – Jane Fox - via Zoom
- Members’ Evening - “Making the Most of the British Newspaper Archive” 1 hour video - via Zoom
- My Website – Kay Lovell + Members’ accounts of how they share their family history with others - via Zoom [NB Second Monday]
- Secrets and Lies: adventures in family history – Frances Hurd - via Zoom
- The National Archives – Les Mitchinson - via Zoom
- Voyages from the past: what it was like for our ancestors who travel by sea - Simon Wills - via Zoom
- Life aboard the Mary Rose (describing various crew members) - Dr Ken Collins & Jenny Mallinson - via Zoom
- Two Centuries of the Census - Gillian Blanchard - via Zoom
- The French Church. Huguenots and Walloon refuges in Southampton - Cheryl Butler - via Zoom
- Swing Riots - Elaine Boyes - via Zoom
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Members' Afternoon - Help build a Christmas tree! with Jane Fox - via Zoom
- Suffering Suffragettes - Jane Glennie
- Highlands Road Cemetery - Dennis Bill - via Zoom
- Getting the most from a visit to the National Archives - Les Mitchinson - via Zoom
- The HGS Website - Elaine Boyes - via Zoom
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
- Members' Afternoon - A Criminal in Your Family? - via Zoom
- Crime and Punishment in the 19th Century - Colin Moretti - via Zoom
- Christmas Festivities
- Families Divided by War - Paul Radford - via Zoom
- The Beaulieu Finishing School for SOE - by Nick Saunders - via Zoom
- Don`t believe everything you are told! - Jane Fox - via Zoom
- Members' Summer Social - Details to follow
- Walk: Explore Ringwood
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- The Story of Stewarts Garden Centre - Martin Stewart
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- Summer Break - No Meeting
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- Demystifying DNA: a Springboard to Your Ancestry? - Neil Littleales
- Summer Break - No Meeting
- My Seafaring Ancestors - Kay Lovell
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
- Summer Outing
- The Lloyd George Domesday (Valuation Survey) 1910-1915 and the National Farm Survey 1941-1943 - Gill Blanchard - via Zoom
- 'Roast Moose anyone?': How reliable are church registers? - Dennis Bill - via Zoom
- Members’ Only - Ask the Experts - via Zoom
- Members' Evening - Family Secrets and Lies – Carol Russell
- Summer Break - No meeting
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
- Maps - Les Mitchinson - via Zoom
- Droughts, Deluges and Dust-devils: 350 years of Weather - Ian Currie - via Zoom
- *** Meeting Cancelled ***
- Guided walk around Bedhampton
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- The Life of Thomas Pounde (1539 - 1614) of Belmonde: An Account of His Life in Riddle and Rhyme - Dr Alison Habens
- My Genealogical Journey - Phil Brown
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- Sold, Separated, Divorced - Ian Waller - via Zoom
- Counting for People - Dave Annal - via Zoom
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- Christmas Meeting
- Summer Break - No Meeting
- Members’ Evening - The black sheep in my family - via Zoom
- Members’ Meeting: to include 'The Black Sheep in my Family'
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- The New HGS Website & Pop Up Bookstall - Gwen Newland & Elaine Boyes
- The Timsbury Triangle: a tale of scandal and intrigue over 20 years - Richard Backhouse
- High Up - Daphne Austin
- Music of the Victorian Era - Brenda Marvin
- The Water Power of West Hampshire - John Heighes
- A History of the Co-Operative Movement - Alexander Sims
- Members' Evening - They Were Not All Ag. Labs.!
- We Will Remember Them: the WWII Memorial - Audrey Brinsford
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- The New HGS Website & Pop Up Bookstall - Gwen Newland (HGS Secretary) & Elaine Boyes (Bookstall)
- 150 Years of Christchurch Station - Steve Roberts
- Annual Review + Have you found any good Websites lately?
- Members’ Evening: Problems and Successes
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
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- Writing up your Family History: how to get started - Chris Lightfoot
- Members' Evening - What is your Family History New Year's Resolution?
- Members' Only Christmas Party - via Zoom
- Hampshire History through Ten Objects – Tony Cross - via Zoom
- Members’ Only: ‘An Aircraft was Lost – The POW Survival of Flt/Sgt Kenneth E Kimberley at Stalag VIIIB/344 Lamsdorf’ - Jonathan Cantelo-Jones - via Zoom
- 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower sailing – Dr Simon Wills - via Zoom
- - No meeting -
- The Duke and the Miner’s Daughter – Tony Hadland
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
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- Minley Manor – Major Ian Mattison (ret’d)
- Members’ Evening – 'A House in Time'
- The Secrets of The Box – Tony Weston
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
- Sentiments in Silk - Neil Littleales - via Zoom
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- Remember when.....? - Janet Few - via Zoom
- The Butler’s Christmas - Bob France - via Zoom
- To be advised (Scheduled meeting by Bob France has been cancelled)
- Members’ Evening
- Winter Break - No Meeting
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
- Basic Research Techniques - Jane Fox
- Members’ Evening – including HGS Bookstall and demo of new website/social media
- Members’ Evening – Military Ancestors - via Zoom
- Family Legends, Part lll: Pubs & Publicans – Kay Lovell - via Zoom
- Paupers, Peasants or Proletariat? Who were the Swing Rioters of Winchester? - Elaine Boyes - via Zoom
- Lifting the Lid – Miranda Pender
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- Brick Walls and Lost Ancestors: problem solving for family historians – David Annal
- Members’ Evening – Website Update and a Look at Facebook + HGS Bookstall
- Summer Break - No Meeting
- Winter Break - No Meeting
- Christmas meeting with ‘at home’ refreshments + British Christmas Traditions – Kay Lovell - via Zoom
- Christmas Social
- Members’ Evening - via Zoom
- Murder, Desertion & Death: the story of four Merchant Seaman from Southampton - Mike Hobbs - via Zoom
- Voyages from the Past - Dr Simon Wills - via Zoom
- ** No meeting in December - Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
- Members’ Presentations - Newspaper Findings - Via Zoom
- Christmas Function
- Getting your stuff in order: Documenting your Family History - Jane Fox - via Zoom
- Summer Function
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- Members’ Presentation - Questions and Answers Session
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- Members’ Presentations - Emigration in the Family (not convicts)
- Members’ Presentations - Trades and Occupations in the Family
- Members' Evening - TBA - via Zoom
- World War II – Its Effects on a Small Community in Hampshire - Tony Cross
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- Members’ Evening - to include demo of new website/social media - Elaine Boyes/Gwen Newland
- Searching for Ancestors When You’re Adopted - Penny Walters
- Southampton Links to the Battle of Omdurman - David Marriott
- Summer Break - No Meeting
- *** MEETING CANCELLED ***
- The 1939 Register - Pat Hibert
- Murder, Desertion & Death - Mike Hobbs
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- Members’ Evening
- Demystifying DNA - Neil Littleales
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- 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
- Winter Break - No Meeting
- 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
- Please note that the Andover Group Meeting scheduled for 12th December has had to be cancelled as the venue is being used as a polling station.
- 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