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 First Steps in family history
 
  
Session 1 Introduction

What is Family History? 
Why do we do it? 
How do we start? 
How to construct a family tree using available information 

 
Session 2 Civil Registration

Potted history of Civil Registration. 
What the indexes look like & how we use them? 
What information we get from certificates?
How do we obtain certificates?  
Practical work 

 
Session 3 Census

What the Censuses look like & how we use them? 
What information we get from the Censuses?
How we can access the Censuses?.  
Practical work 

 
Session 4 Church Records

What Church Records look like & how we use them 
What information we get from Church Records?
How we can access Church Records?  
Practical work 

 
Session 5 Newspapers and Maps

What information we get from Newspapers and Maps? 
How we can access Church Records?.  
Practical work 

 
Session 6 International Genealogical Index  

What information we get from the International Genealogical Index? 
How we can access Church Records?  
Practical work 

 
Session 7 Ephemera

What is Ephemera and how does it help us in our Family History?
Practical work 

 
Session 8 Computers in Family History

How can we use Computers in Family History?
Accessing information and recording our findings

 
Outvisits

Visits to the Church of the Latter Day Saints Research Centre at Chorley and Chorley Library will be included within the course?

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Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society
2 The Straits, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, UK.   BB5 3LU
  UK:  01254 239919 

Registered Charity Number 513437

Founded in 1973 as the Rossendale Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (Lancashire)

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