The Blonde Bombshells

An afternoon at the Lowry to see a band that took us down memory lane,the music was great, wished they had played more,I know the script was supposed to be funny but I could not hear all the wise cracks,the acting remineds me of school plays,they made it up with the music it was excellent,
a good afternoon

Salford film

On the 15th Jan 09 there was a film about the last 100 years of Salford,it was shown to a full house at the Salford theatre on Liverpool St,
It was a collection of nine short films,
The first was of a charity parade made in 1901 people having fun in fancy dress
moving pictures was some thing new then, the quality of the filming was very good made by pioneering cameramen Mitchell and Kenyon,
another film about the A,R.P
air raid wardens, was a serious job at the time but it was comical to ,watch,
although it was Salford I did not recognise many places

Happy New Year

Happy New Year every body.
our next meeting for chalk history is 30th January st Sebastian’s community centre Douglas Green Salford,

Merry Christmas to every body
from chalk history

History day

16th November is History day at Peel Park local History Museume

Last year it was a fantastic day, dont miss this time, come a long and see what a great place Salford is,

St Joseph’s West Craven St Salford 1930

??Joan Fildes Florrie Thompson, Faith Nicholls. Joyce Morrissey, Winnie Doyle. Eileen Gill. Margaret Dunne. John Murray. ?? George Berisford. John Heathcoat, ?Cosgrove, Kathleen Doherty. Freda Maloney. Celia Cavanha.Norah Jordon,Mary Glynn.Annie Barry.Winnie Crompton.Connie Henderson. Kathleen Whealdon. Agnes Jones. Charlie Couchi holding the board.Tommy Fagan ?murhpy.. Fred Ogden. ? Ellis Hardy.class of 1930

Is there anyone in this photo still around or remembered? We’d love to hear from you! e- mail us here

Trace Your Ancestry: Useful sites

Here are some sites that are recommended for searching your family tree. We recommend anybody’s comments on using any of these sites.

www.ancestry.co.uk

This is a really useful place to start with lots of information in one place. However, it costs around £80 for an annual subscription. This has a community space for talking with other members.

www.genesreunited.co.uk

This is a good site too as there are lots of members. There’s lots of information and people tend to get in touch with details of their own searches that may link with your own. However, they might be wrong leads and you could waste time going down a dead end. You can search some information for free, take a six-month subscription for £10 or buy pay-as-you-credit. This has a community space for talking with other members.

www.ancestryaid.co.uk

This is a free service. Good place to start as you’re not paying out but limited membership base.

www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk

This is a resource that tells you the meaning of your family surname.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellysearch

An article about the old Kelly’s Directory.

www.historicaldirectories.org

Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history.

www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

This is where you go to order your birth, deaths and marriage certificates. These cost about £7 per certificate.

www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder

Download free software to create your own family tree.

www.familyrecords.gov.uk/guides/beginners.htm

Good starting point, some introductory guides.

www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/#basics

Another good introduction to researching your family tree.

www.familybmd.com

Well respected, free resoucre.

www.familysearch.org

Has selected parish records.

www.rootsweb.com

For genealogy chat and other relevany information.

http://www.mancuniensis.info/

Ancient Salford history.

http://www.genogold.com/

						A simple idea: elusive genealogical data, reliable searchable databases & useful family history links, without the heavy-duty approach. We focus on hard-to-find records, with a total of c.411,740 records at 11/1/07 with c.119,000 more on the way.

www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Salford/

Really useful database of local Salford resources

http://www.ancestor-search.info/

List of resources.

Another trip out

The challk history group had another nice day out at the Science and Industrial Museum today

Thanks to Denise, she is a  star Thanks Denise

Mcmillan

Friday  26 September is national coffee morning in aid of the Mcmillan nurses,

Why not come along to St Sebastian’s on Douglas Green Salford M6 . bus stop at the door

10am -12 enjoy a cup of tea/coffee, cake or bisuits ,

best of all, come and meet us for a friendly chat, we would love to meet you,

who are we? we are the Gemini group,

Gimini

Gemimi is the name of a group of people all over  the age 50 /60/70/80/

interested in every thing thats going on,pensions, health, days out, computers, media,

and now blogging,

we meet at St Sebastian’s Douglas Green, Salford M6, first Thursday of each month

dont be lonely come  and have a cuppa tea/coffee. every one welcome,you maybe lucky and get a biscuit,