Discover your Family History

Unlock Your Family Secrets

Discovering your family history can be a fun and fascinating journey. Our Discover Your Family History workshops and discussions provide all the tools you need to unlock your family secrets in no time at all.

Share Ideas & Exchange Knowledge

We believe in the power of knowledge-sharing. That's why we encourage our members to come together, discuss their successes and challenges in tracing their roots, and even share their genealogy research with each other.

Check out the upcoming workshops:

20th of June – DNA explained.

Are you wondering if DNA will help with your family history research? 

Have you ‘done’ your DNA but not sure how to unlock the secrets?  

Come along to our double-edged workshop on Thursday 20 June to find the answers to these perplexing questions.  For those who have your DNA results, bring along a laptop if you have one, or your username and password to your DNA account to use one of the libraries computers, and we will get you started on working with your match lists and begin to unravel the strands that make up your DNA. We will take those yet to do DNA, through what it can do to help your research and get you thinking about if it is right for you or not, what the costs are and which companies offer the service.

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18th July - Maps 

Maps are a great source of information and using them can help you see where your families might have lived and give you an insight into possible reasons for choices they made.  How do you find maps, what to look for and how to use them in your research?

Come along to this month’s Discover Your Family History to find out!

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