Burntwood Family History Group

	Visiting Speakers On the 2nd Monday of each month with usually have a visiting speaker to give us a talk on a Family History related subject If you are interested in being a speaker at one of our monthly meeting, or you want to suggest a speaker, please contact Carol Jones (01543 454440)
	Speakers for 2010 8th February "Stories Grandad Told" - Vanessa Morgan 8th March "Local Survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade" - Dave Pulley 12th April "How to Create a Biography" - Ros Bott 10th May "The Victorian Way of Death" - Danny Wells 14th June "Crime and Punishment" - Patsie James 12th July "Poverty is the Worst of Crimes" - Liz Street 9th August "Employment in and around Walsall" - Ann French 13th September - No speaker - AGM 11th October "New Speech Being Worked On" - Roger Knowles 8th November "Another Funny Thing Happened at the Register Office" - John Yates 13th December - No speaker - Christmas Social Function - details of which to be announced in due course

Past Speakers

"Some Staffordshire Knotts Untied" - Dr. Richard Totty

"My Family Through the Ages" - Adam Garner

"Wills Post 1858" - John Yates

"Love Misplaced" - Beryl Wilkes

"Methodism" - Keith Rothery

"Unravelling the Woolleys" - Delia Wyres
"Staffordshire Saints" - Catherine Cartwright
"Alrewas National Memorial Arboretum" - Jan Altham
"Using the Walsall Local Studies Centre" - Paul Ford
"St Matthew's Hospital - the County Lunatic Asylum" - David Budden
"Grandma was a Suffragette" - Barbara Andrew
"Meet the Pagets" - Richard Stone
"And the Bride Wore....." Patricia Boyd
"Heroes in my Family Tree" - Delia Wyres
"Uncle Ike and family in the Black Country" - Beryl Hyde
"Fairs from Medieval to Modern Times" - David Podmore
"The fact in Fiction" - Michael Taylor
"Estate Papers and the Elusive Thomas Kington" - Mary Pochin
"What the Butler Saw" - Patricia Boyd
"The Power of the Internet" - Pam Woodburn
"Ordnance Survey Past and Present"
"A Squires Tale" - Paul Walker
"The Power of the Internet" - Pam Woodburn
"Source for the Goose" - Thea Randall
"Development of Photography" - Gillian Jones
"A Squires Tale" - Paul Walker
"The Origins of Surnames" - Geoff Sorrell
"The Parish Chest" - Alan Tongue
"Original Documents for Research" - Roger Knowles
"The Redemption of Eliza Jane" - Mark Frampton
"Getting the Most out of Death Certificates" - John Yates
"Christmas Traditions" - Patricia Boyd
"On Line With Your Past" - Lesly Vasey
"Non-Conformist Records" - Peter Bloor
"Staffordshire's Changing Landscape" - Thea Randall
"DNA and Family History" Chris Pomeroy
"Making the Most of Marriage and Death Certificates" - John Yates
"May I Remind You" - Joyce Finnemore
"The Hanslow Family Tree" - Ruth Hanslow
"Probate Records" - Martin Sanders
"Developments in Family History on Line at FFFH" - Maggie Loughran
"The Battle of Hastings" - Adrian P.S. de Redman
"How we lived then" - Mary Bodfish
"My Granny's Box" - Judith Farrington
"Upstairs, Downstairs" - Patricia Boyd
"An Introduction to English Heraldry" - Adrian P.S. de Redman
"Laurence's Air Force (Medals)" - Roger Bragger
"Beryl's Treasures" - Beryl Wilkes
"Ernest and the Panther" - John Atkinson
"Skeletons in the Cupboard" - Anette Hall
"Reading Old Handwriting" - Corinna Rayner
"Making Sense of the Census" - Cath Yates
"Helping us to Help You" - John Yates
"A History of Saint Michael's Church Lichfield" - Dr. Trevor James
"Church Terriers" - Dr Mary Watts
"Searching for the True Connection" - Dorothy Inlett
"The Clock Tower" - Colin Walton"
Tne One Name Studies" - Peter Badham
"A Wander Through Family History" - Joyce Finnemore
"The Wyatts of Weeford" - Chris Adams
"My Ancestor was a Gamekeeper" - Thea Randall
"Locks and Lock making in Willenhall" - John Whistance
"The Leather Workers of Walsall" - Dr. Rotherham
"The History of Beaudesert" - Bernard Richards
"The Midland Association with the Gunpowder Plot" - Beryl Ellerslie
"The Shot at Dawn Memorial and Arboretum" - Jackie Fisher
"The Archives of the Staffordshire Regiment" - Maj. E. Green
"16th and 17th Century Wills" - Prof. Ann Hughes
"F.F.H.S." - Maggie Loughran (Administrator)
"Staffordshire Military Mail" - Richard Farman
"A Walk Down Memory Lane" - Ron Smith
"The Worst of Crimes is Poverty" - Mark Dorrington
"The History of Kings Bromley" - Mavis Crocket
"Wolverhampton Archives" - Lesley Vasey
"The Battle of Waterloo" - Tim Burgin
"Under Old Chasetown" - Vic Vayro
"Inter-relations in Family History" - Edna Handley
"George Oakley - Barnardo Boy" - Joyce Finnimore
"William Salt Library - Stafford" - Thea Randall
"Looking for Uncle Albert" - Margaret Toohill
"Birmingham Register Office" - John Yates
"The Zulu Wars" - Robert Hope
"An Infamous Mason" - John Mason
"Our Canal Heritage" - Tim Burgin
"Maps for Family History" - Peter Knowles
"Charles II Route thro' the Midlands" - Trevor Antill