Ryedale
Family History
Group

This group is established
to help members
to further their research into
family and local history

NEWS!
Our Research Room is open on Thursdays
at Hovingham Village Hall
between 10am and 3pm
and at all other times by appointment.
The Research Room is open to all.
Free to members, and
'day membership' is available to non-members
Further details HERE


Family & Local History Exhibition
All Saints Church, Hovingham
Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th October
Meetings


Meetings are held monthly, on the 3rd Wednesday of each month,
7pm for 7.30pm
at a venue or venues within Ryedale

(No meeting during August)

New members and visitors always welcome!


The next Meeting
will be held on
Wednesday, 19th November 2008
at
the

The Village Hall,
Hovingham

Speaker: Robin Wardell
“The Gravedigger's Story”

7pm for 7.30pm

Visitors welcome

Date
Venue
Speaker
19 December
Memorial Hall, Kirkbymoorside

Members' Social Evening
& Speaker, Mike Benson from
Ryedale Folk Museum

16 January 2008
Friends' Meeting House
Malton

June Parker
"Freemen of the City of York"

20 February
WRVS Centre,
Pickering
John Rushton
"Roaming Around old Inventories"
19 March
The Village Hall,
Hovingham
Yorkshire Film Archive
16 April
The Chapel Schoolroom
Helmsley
Rev. David Clark
"A Fishing Family of Runswick Bay"
21 May
WRVS Centre,
Pickering
Canon Tom Evans
"Our House – an appreciation of the homes I have shared"
18 June
The Village Hall,
Hovingham
David Rymer
"A Reluctant Funeral Director"
16 July
The Village Hall,
Hovingham
AGM, followed by
Trevor Boag
WW1 Battlefields with an emphasis on some local people who died
No meeting during August
17 September
WRVS Centre,
Pickering

Ron Scales
“The History and Humour of the
North Riding Dialect”

15 October
The Golf Club
Kirkbymoorside
Lewis Graham
"Crosses on the North Yorks Moors"
19th November

The Village Hall
Hovingham

Robin Wardell
“The Gravedigger’s Story”
10th December
note earlier date
The Methodist Chapel
Kirkbymoorside
Christmas Social
Speaker: Jeff Andrews
21 January 2009

The Memorial Hall
Pickering

Fred Normandale
"Fishy Tales"
18 February 2009
The Chapel Schoolroom
Helmsley
Gordon Clitheroe
"The Changing Face of Pickering"
18 March 2009
Kirkbymoorside
Venue to be confirmed
John Rushton
"History of the Working Man"

(Future meetings will be held at
Malton, Pickering, Helmsley, Hovingham,
Ebberston and Kirkbymoorside
Please check this page regularly to
see where the next meeting will be)

 

Can you help?
We need some volunteers to
help with Monumental Inscription
recording in Ryedale
also transcribing of some
local Parish Registers
Phone: 07813 977613


Some months have 5 Wednesdays in them
Here's what we do on the fourth Wednesday of those months:

RESEARCH WORKSHOP
at our Research Room, Hovingham Village Hall
7pm - 9pm

(not December 2008, as the fourth Wednesday is Christmas Eve!)
22nd April 2009

Remember .... our Research Room can be open to suit you!
If you cannot attend during our regular opening hours,
please phone or email for appointment



Newsletter

Newsletter Issue No.13 will be available to members from 15th October

The Newsletter Editor will be pleased to receive any
stories, anecdotes, pictures, family trees, snippets
or anything useful and/or interesting, for inclusion in future publications.
Please send any contributions to:
editor@ryedalefamilyhistory.org

Publication deadline for January 2009 issue is 28th December 2008


Help !

This is our 'HELP BANK'

If you are able to offer help
to any of our members,
with look-ups in any local resources, such as the County Record Office
at Northallerton, local Libraries, the Borthwick Institute for Historical Research
please contact secretary@ryedalefamilyhistory.org

If you need help with local research, a 'brick wall' in your family tree
or have a query about research in other places,
please contact secretary@ryedalefamilyhistory.org
to find someone who may be able to help





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updated 12th November 2008


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