Manchester Group
 

Contact: Lorna Kay


About this Group:
The Manchester Branch held its first meeting in November 2001 and has gone from strength to strength. We hold regular workshops for experienced members and small mentoring sessions to encourage beginners with their research.  In addition we have meetings with speakers on a variety of subjects.  Meetings are held at Broughton Library, Bury New Road, Salford M7 mainly on Monday afternoons.  Large events are generally held on a Sunday.

Beginners are especially welcome - our more experienced members are only too happy to help you get started.

What we offer:

Our resource material includes approximately 250 files/documents/booklets/information sheets on all aspects of genealogical research and a library of 90+ books for in-depth research as well our our own laptop computer, printer and CD library including the 38 disc set of the 1901 Census for the whole of Lancashire (old borders).

We can offer information on subjects as varied as researching Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Argentina, Denmark and Germany; adoption, holocaust studies, reading tombstone inscriptions, shipping, immigration, local archives, DNA testing, applying for copies of birth/marriage/death certificates and much more.

We have had speakers on Polish research, Lithuania, local archives (e.g. Manchester and Liverpool), Manchester's Jewish Heritage, Moving Here project, Jews Temporary Shelters and immigration, researching German records, how to digitally enhance old photos on the computer, using websites, the Jews of Alaska, DNA testing, ethics in genealogy, etc.  Our genealogical visits have included the Greater Manchester County Records Office and the Manchester Police Museum (to inspect the Alien Registration records).  In August 2004 we had a guided tour of four closed Jewish cemeteries, one of which was Pendleton (opened in 1794).

Annual Conference

Our third Manchester Annual Conference will be held on Sunday 15th May at Broughton Library, Bury New Road, Salford M7. Our speakers are Mr Edmund Conway (The Victorian Blackburn Jewish Community Revisited), Mrs Arlene Beare (Genealogical Research in the Russian Empire with special reference to Latvia) and Mr Roger Kershaw (From Strangers to Citizens - Modern Immigration sources at the National Archives).

For further information on any of our activities email LORNA KAY