During Covid19 Libraries West are giving free access to the library edition of Ancestry to members at home, (previously only available at the library).
If you have a Dorset Libraries card you first need to log in to your Libraries West account. You will see this screen:
If anyone finds any other free information please let us know here.
Is £10 per annum for UK only, Oct to Oct.
Please contact us for payment details.
Our new season of meetings will start Wed 6 Oct 2021, then the first Wednesday of every month until Jun 2022.
Our meeting 6 Oct at 19:30 GMT will be our AGM followed by Chris Fookes' 'Milton Abbas Oddities'.
We will be meeting in the Reading Rooms, Milton Abbas and also via ZOOM.
Our meeting 3 Nov 2021 19:30 GMT will be 'Our Records and Where to find them', by Bryan Phillip
Are you interested in exploring old documents?
You can help us by transcribing documents and audio recordings. We already have transcribers around the world who are working on Churchwardens Books and Overseers of the Poor Books. The pages are shared using Google docs, although MyAirBridge, One Drive or Dropbox is also possible.
More:
Although we are a local history group, we are carrying out family and social history research to see how the ordinary people lived, how they were treated, their economic fortunes, religious beliefs, health, demographics, etc. We are particularly interested in the mobility of families in the 18th century.
