Scottish Family History Fair
Scottish Family History Fair

Aberdeen & NE Scotland Family History Society
will be hosting the 20th Annual Conference of the Scottish Association of Family History Societies
on

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

The venue will be Kings´s College Conference Centre in historic Old Aberdeen.

King's College, Aberdeen Conference Auditorium

 
Programme:    
09:30   Registration, tea & coffee & stalls open
10:00 -- 10:15   Welcome from ANESFHS Chairman. Opening Ceremony: Brian Adam MSP
10:20 -- 11:15   Lesley Diack: 'Women In Family History'
11:20 -- 12:20   Margaret McBryde: 'Digging Deeper: NAS services to support Family History'
12:30 -- 13:20   Lunch
13:30 -- 14:30   Fiona Watson: 'Hospital Records for Genealogists'
14:30 -- 15:30   Sarah Malone (Gordon Highlanders Museum): 'Military History'
15:30   Raffle Draw & Closing Speeches.
16.30   Close of Conference.
 
Charges: There will be no entrance charge to the general Fair, but visitors will have to pay for attending the talks and for food.
Stalls: Other Scottish FHS will be invited to set up stalls, without charge. However, commercial concerns would be liable to a £30 pre-paid booking fee.
Advertising: Quarterly updates of news on SAFHS 2009 will feature in all the Society´s Journals until February 2009. An ad for the event also appears in our new Introductory Leaflets, which were reprinted in August. Other FHS at home and abroad, with which ANESFHS has a Journal-exchange agreement, will be requested to publicise the event during the next few months.

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Our aim is to make this the biggest and best SAFHS Conference.

For more information, or to offer help, please contact the Society:
Conference Committee, ANESFHS, 158-164 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5BD
Tel: 01224 646323


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