ADULT LEARNERS WEEK MAY 2008

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DAY . RAMSGATE MAY 2008

kent family history society

Sandra Vane who runs the Publicity , bookstall and events team for the Kent Family History Society , kindly brought her team to Ramsgate Traincrew Room to help our members with their Family History . We used the Internet to trace and verify the Family tree brought in by Colin Sutton . His family history centers around the Deal and Ringwould area , and went back around 300 years . The Ladies also helped Karl Rodgers who is the Lead Learner Rep for the TSSA on Southeastern , to find the birth places and dates of some of his family . Karls family come from Wales , but with their knowledge of the various web sites they use , was no problem .
Sandra,s team also gave advice on how to store documents such as Birth , marriage and Death certificates . They recomend using acid free document bags . These dont attack the paper over time keeping it in good condition over many years . Also they are air tight which helps preserve them too .
One member of Traincrew we spoke to was about to emigrate to Australia . He wanted advice about what he should do to keep a record of his family, s life in this country . Sandra said to take as many family certificates as he could , but also to take lots of photos of everything from members of his family to photos of his house and surrounding area , so when his children grow up they will have a good idea of their early life in Kent .

WEB SITES RECOMENDED BY THE KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

genuki.org.uk

cyndislist.com

one-name.org

freebmd.org

1837online.com

familyrelatives.org

thegeneologist.co.uk

ancestry.co.uk

gazetteer.co.uk

old-maps.co.uk

scotlandspeople.gov.uk

familysearch.org

a2a.org.uk

military-geneology.com

cwcg.org

gazettes-online.co.uk

nationalarchives.gov.uk

oldbaileyonline.org

A SLICE OF LEARNING HELD AT THE RED STAR LEARNING CENTRE CHATHAM

To round off our week of events we were honoured to welcome National Organiser Andy Reed to the Red Star Learning Centre at Chatham . Andy saw the learners taking their assesments [ me included ] and had a tour of the centre to see the very impressive facillites on offer . Mike Sargent and Ivor Riddlle of the RMT and Karl Rodgers of TSSA have worked their socks off to get this Learning centre up and running . Andy also recorded a message for our Video which Karl is producing that records all the activites Learner Reps have put on during Adult Learners Week .