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- Benefits of the Wills Beneficiary Index (WBI)
- Winchester Independent Register – RG4-726
- Over Wallop village booklet now available
- 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
- Young Lovers in Alton
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- Poor Law Union Gazette – 2
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- Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum
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- 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
- Jane Austen’s 200th Anniversary
- Useful Research Source Material: Auction Sale Notices
- Palmerston’s Folly – The Story of Portsmouth’s Forts
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- Knowle War Memorial
- RIP Private Herbert Frank French
- Can you help
- RIP Gunner William Talmage
- Hampshire Centenarian
- Hamble Village Walk 2014
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- Old Newspaper Articles and Research
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Portsmouth & Southampton Memorials
- A Hampshire Picture Mystery
- A Delightful WWI Artefact
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- HGS Conference Day – Rosalind McCutcheon – Fact Sheet
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- Latest village booklet – No 94 Twyford now available
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- New Membership Secretary
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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
- Speaker - TBA
- Quiz and Christmas Tea Party
- Members' Afternoon - TBC
- 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
- Members’ Evening
- 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
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Latest News
Review of HGS Conference Day 2019
Review of HGS Conference Day 2019 Our third conference day was held on 15th June and was attended by 150 delegates. In the luxury of the Fair Oak Suite of the Macdonald Hotel and Spa, Botley, everyone took advantage of the opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet new ones.
HGS Conference Day – Rosalind McCutcheon – Fact Sheet
The factsheet from Ros McCutcheon’s excellent talk at our recent Conference Day can be accessed via the following Link: Irish-Poor-Handout-June-2019-Ros-McCutcheon (1)
Wield village booklet now available
Wield, (VB103) is a small parish consisting of two settlements, Upper and Lower Wield, with Upper Wield being the principle one including the parish church. Wield is 6 miles west of Alton and 6 miles north-north-east of Alresford.
New Item in the Members Area
We are delighted to announce that we have a new set of data in our members area. The Muster Roll of the 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment dated 1889, by kind permission of two of our members, Kay and Dave Lovell,
Wield MI Correction
As with all data that gets indexed or transcribed there is always the possibility that information can be misread due to bad handwriting or general aging. Whilst preparing information for the forthcoming village booklet on Wield I have found a prime example of this.
