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• Family History Connect | New England Historical and Genealogical Register

  • When
    08 July 2025
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    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
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  Family History Connect | New England Historical and Genealogical Register
  

  

  The New England Historical and Genealogical Register began in 1847 and is still going today. The journal is home to an immense wealth of genealogical information which is mostly about the New England region in the US, but it also contains articles and connections back to the UK.

  Contents include parish registers for various parishes, wills, memorials, articles on historical events, biographies, pictures, obituaries and much more. Early volumes are on Internet Archive and freely available, along with handy indexes to volumes 1-50. Subscription sites have the more recent volumes.
  
  Patrice Connelly will take you through what you need to know to access and use this spectacular resource. It will be of particular interest to those of us with US cousins, US ancestry or branches of our UK and Irish families that ended up in the US. Even if they didn't stay in New England, you may find valuable connecting evidence back to England and on to where your cousins moved.

  This is a members only event that will take place via Zoom.
  

  Bookings are essential for this session.

  

  

  About the Family History Connect series:

  Our 'members-only' series, Family History Connect, feature themed sessions focusing on particular areas of genealogical research.

  Sessions are generally facilitated by one of the Society’s wonderful volunteers and this session will take place online.  These sessions are open to all current members of the Society. 

  If you would like to facilitate a session, please get in touch with us via email. 

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• Family History Connect | Understanding YOUR YDNA Results

  • When
    29 July 2025
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    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
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  Family History Connect: Understanding YOUR YDNA Results

  Members only. Limited to 6 participants.

  This session of Family History Connect |  Understanding YOUR YDNA Results will be a virtual round table discussion/workshop offered online via Zoom and facilitated by Society volunteer, Chris Hingerty.

  Please note, this session also involves a one on one Zoom chat in the weeks prior to the session to prepare each participant for the round table discussion/workshop.

  By agreeing to be part of this session, you are aware that:

  • You will receive a follow up email after your registration asking you to email our facilitator, Chris, to arrange the one on one Zoom chat. 
  • This session is open to members who have already received their YDNA test results (Y37, or Y111, or Big Y 700) and want to discuss what the results are telling them and what to do next to achieve their research goals.
  • ALL participants must be prepared to share and discuss their results with the group during the round table discussion/workshop.
  • Participants do not need to know how to read or analyse their results, or how to share via Zoom as this will be demonstrated during the pre-workshop one on one Zoom chat.
  • Participants will introduce themselves at the workshop by responding to the following questions: Who did you test? Which test? Why test? What was your research question?
  • The workshop will focus on what the YDNA results are telling participants about their research question and what steps they will take next in their research.

  Please note that, due to privacy concerns, no recordings or screen shots can be taken during the workshop session.

  Prior to the session, in order to benefit from and be able to fully contribute to the discussion, participants are strongly encouraged to view the recording available in the Members Area, Webinar Library Using Y-DNA to Assist Your Research (Sept 2023) and/or attend (or watch the video recordings) the three part Understanding Y-DNA Webinar Series - https://sag.org.au/event-6070348

  
  

  You can view other sessions in the Family History Connect series here.

  
  

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• Family History Connect | What Makes a Place? Rethinking Boundaries in One Place Studies

  • When
    05 August 2025
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
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  Family History Connect | What Makes a Place? Rethinking Boundaries in One Place Studies

  

  When thinking about a One Place Study, a village or town might come to mind, and there is nothing wrong in thinking this way. But why put boundaries on what we mean by place?

  In this panel session, five SAG members share their diverse approaches to place-based history, starting with a small rural community and then demonstrating less traditional “boundaries”, showing how meaningful stories can be uncovered in more unexpected locations.

  Whether you're new to One Place Studies or looking to re-imagine your own project, this session could inspire you to think differently about what a “place” can be.

  This is a members only event that will take place via Zoom.
  

  Bookings are essential for this session.

  

  

  About the Family History Connect series:

  Our 'members-only' series, Family History Connect, feature themed sessions focusing on particular areas of genealogical research.

  Sessions are generally facilitated by one of the Society’s wonderful volunteers and this session will take place online.  These sessions are open to all current members of the Society. 

  If you would like to facilitate a session, please get in touch with us via email. 

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• Family History Connect | Female Peerages

  • When
    19 August 2025
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    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
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  Family History Connect | Female Peerages

  

  Most of us know a bit about English titles: dukes, earls, barons etc.
  But do you know the hierarchy of titles? What are the differences in
  different parts of the UK? And how many women have been granted titles
  in their own right instead of being given the courtesy title alongside
  their husband's rank?
  
  In this webinar, Patrice Connelly will go through the small
  number of women who have been granted a title since Margaret of
  Brotherton was made Countess of Norfolk in 1338, and Duchess of Norfolk in 1399, all in her own right! Scottish peerages will also be included.

  By the end of the webinar, you'll understand the differences between English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish peerages, the hierarchies, those which are extinct or not, and the reasons the female peerages were handed out and to whom. They differ markedly!

  
  

  This is a members only event that will take place via Zoom.

  Bookings are essential for this session.

  

  

  About the Family History Connect series:

  Our 'members-only' series, Family History Connect, feature themed sessions focusing on particular areas of genealogical research.

  Sessions are generally facilitated by one of the Society’s wonderful volunteers and this session will take place online.  These sessions are open to all current members of the Society. 

  If you would like to facilitate a session, please get in touch with us via email. 

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