Thursday Maxim 2

“Genealogists! Don’t dog us with your family stories! Let these achingly long tales remain in the corduroy prison of your brains. Silence!” Laird Cole, 1901

Heir In My Soup

Tonight at the League’s HQ in Clerkenwell we expect a visit from our Tunbridge Wells Branch Overseer, Mr P. Edwards. He will be reporting to our disciplinary committee on declining numbers at TW branch meetings, and putting forward a motion of no confidence in his leadership, with particular reference to the massive failure of his bound collections of ancestral anecdotes: ‘Heir today! GONE tomorrow!!’ and the even less successful follow-up, ‘Three cHeirs!’, and the disastrous ‘Heir I Go Again On My Own!’.

Enter the title!

As history happens, so the family is a part (however small) of the history as it unwrinkles. So, how does one find out MORE about the history of their family and their family’s place in the wider HISTORY? Good question: the way is to research your family history!!! And we can help you do that by offering guidance and advice on how you can research your family history. Find out more by CLICKING HEAR?

We look forward to welcoming your membership into the folds of our expanding body!

We have had a lot of people emailing us, telephoning us, writing to us and asking us directly out in the streets of Clerkenwell, how to join Thafasal. Long-term readers will know – this information is already “OuT THERE”. So for anyone who still wants to join the League, but doesn’t know how, please navigate to this ‘post’: http://thelocalhistoryandfamilyhistorysocietyleague.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/join-our-muscular-body-of-membership/

Put flesh on your family bone, Call us on the telephone!

We have an advice line at the League HQ in Clerkenwell, manned by our crack team of genealogical ‘phone experts – the ‘Ancestoids’. So if you’re stuck at a brick wall that’s stopping the otherwise happy fleshing out of family bones, call: 0800-ANCESTOIDS.

League IMAGE ARCHIVE

Many members and non-Leaguers telephone our telephone to ask about our image archive. We have a large image archive – a complete photographic record of past members, of past League events and annual galas, plus collections of family snaps and interesting local history collections donated to us over the years. The League Meeting Photo-chive (LMP-C) is particularly valuable. Since 1910, our resident snappers have taken shots of EVERY SINGLE meeting that has taken place under our hallowed roof in Clerkenwell. That’s a lot of happy faces sitting in rows! These are uncatalogued and partially water damaged, but otherwise very good.

We’ve also begun our own contemporary collection which I think will interest members and casual browsers alike. We generally like shots of people looking happy about being near a laptop. Here are SOME EXAMPLES:

We’ve begun to receive emails . . .

As you all know by now, we, The League that is, are now “hooked up” to the World Wide Web via BT’s maximum width. We have begun to receive our first “E-MAIL’” MESSAGES. Now, very annoyingly, the very first message appeared to be about finance, and ended with a small round yellow smiling face. We tried to answer it, to check if it was meant for us, but accidentally deleted it. We gathered in Meeting-Rama-Room 1 and I handed round a copy of the message (I wrote it out by hand working from memory) in order to decide what we should do. It was decided there that I should put out a request for the “E-MAIL’” to be sent to us again. So if YOU sent us an email about finance, with a small yellowface at the end, please let us know if it was important.