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  Family History Societies
The Hertfordshire Family History and Population Society U.K. Herts F.H.S. The Hertfordshire Family History Society U.K.England
The Manchester and Lancs Family History Society U.K.England
The Ripon, Harrogate and District Family History Society.
www.mick-gray.co.uk /family_history_societies.htm   (636 words)

  
 Cleveland Family History Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cleveland Family History Society, more formally The Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society, is a family history society that covers this named part of the North-East of England.
It was created in 1979, and its aims are stated as "to promote the study of genealogy and family history and to educate the public therein by holding meetings, sharing information, encouraging research, giving assistance, and producing publications for the public benefit".
It is a member of the Federation of Family History Societies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleveland_Family_History_Society   (126 words)

  
 Cleveland Family History Society
The aims are to promote the study of genealogy and family history and to educate the public therein by holding meetings, sharing information, encouraging research, giving assistance, and producing publications for the public benefit.
Cleveland as a County had a short existence, being created in 1974 from its predecessor, Teesside, which was in turn created from parts of County Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire.
The Society was formed to cover a perceived gap in the coverage of the neighbouring societies, Northumberland and Durham FHS and the various societies serving Yorkshire.
www.clevelandfhs.org.uk   (331 words)

  
 Cleveland
The Cleveland Hills, in the southern part of the district, were key suppliers of the ironstone that was essential to the running of the blast furnaces alongside the River Tees.
Cleveland is a Church of England archdeaconry, in the Diocese of York.
The Cleveland constituency had been created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, by the division of the North Riding constituency, and was succeeded by the Cleveland and Whitby for the February 1974 general election.
www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=44407   (1197 words)

  
 Journal of San Diego History
Cleveland bad also served as attorney for the Texas and Pacific Railroad when it was involved in litigation with the City during the period 1876-1880.
Cleveland provided some new species, one of which was given his name; in addition he forwarded to Stanford University a new genus of fishes given the name Clevelandia.
In the Daniel Cleveland collection in the Serra Museum library of the San Diego Historical Society is the original commission, an Oath of Allegiance to the United States, and an Oath of Amnesty.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/65january/cleveland.htm   (2264 words)

  
 Newberry Library | Durham Local and Family History
The History and antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham.
The Victoria history of the county of Durham.
[Histories of parishes in the County of Durham.] Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1919-1930.
www.newberry.org /genealogy/durham.html   (223 words)

  
 Welcome to Cleveland Park Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Cleveland Park was rolling farmland in the state of Maryland when George Washington picked the site of the capital of the new United States of America.
The second phase of Cleveland Park's development was characterized by increasing simplification and standardization in house design, which was typical after the turn of the century in many parts of the United States.
Although Cleveland Park is considered to be primarily a turn-of-the-century neighborhood, it has several of the most significant architect-designed modern-style houses in the city.
www.clevelandparkdc.org /history/histcp.asp   (2016 words)

  
 Slavic Village Historical Society at Mill Creek Falls
The Mill Creek Falls History Center is housed in the historic Brilla House overlooking Mill Creek Falls in Old Newburgh, in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Slavic Village Historical Society was certified by the State of Ohio as a public non-profit organization on July 12, 1995.
We have published a serialized history of the area and a major goal is to prepare a definitive history of Newburgh Township with an emphasis on those areas of Cleveland which once comprised its old 14th and 18th wards.
www.slavicvillagehistory.org   (259 words)

  
 The City of Cleveland Heights
In the 1830s and 1840s, there was a large emigration to the areas adjacent to Cleveland; however, the area in which Cleveland Heights is located was one of the last areas to be settled, due in part to its remote location at the top of a bluff.
Cleveland's elite had developed homes on Euclid Avenue, though they were being pushed farther and farther east to avoid the city's growth.
While the earliest residents of the area that would become Cleveland Heights were primarily farmers and quarrymen, later residents who arrived in the early parts of the twentieth century were among Cleveland's social elite, building large homes in the western portions of the village.
www.clevelandheights.com /historyarch.asp   (2468 words)

  
 Kath & Dixie's List of UK Family History Society Links
The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry is the principal family history society for the counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire.
The Society was formed in January 1979 to encourage the study of genealogy and family history, particularly within the Isle of Man. Being a member of the society benefits all those researching their families, whether they are Manx born or not.
Sheffield and District Family History Society was founded in 1977 with the aims of promoting the study of genealogy, family history and local history in the area, for the benefit and education of the public.
www.jjackks.freeserve.co.uk /ukfhs.htm   (7032 words)

  
 Cleveland Restoration Society - Current Advocacy Efforts
A few words about the Cleveland district – the rebuilding project is enormous, with $1.5 billion at stake, the largest single infrastructure project in the history of the city of Cleveland.
The Cozad family owned a large section of the land which is now occupied by Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, Severance Hall, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Lakeview Cemetery.
A City of Cleveland Landmarks Commission investigation revealed strong circumstantial evidence for linking the oldest section of the house with the Underground Railroad and documented that the University Circle area was a major center of Abolitionist and Underground Railroad activity during the three decades preceding the Civil War.
www.clevelandrestoration.org /ProtectingHistory/currentefforts.htm   (1458 words)

  
 History
New Cleveland Bay and Yorkshire Coach horse, are all descriptors that have been used over the past three centuries to describe horses which instead might just as easily have been referred to, at least by the general public, as being Cleveland Bays.
To be displaced by the Clydesdale is somewhat ironic bearing in mind the fact that the Cleveland was used as a foundation of the breed at its very inception, however it did fall out of favour and its unpopularity was as strong as the desire to own one had been in the recent past.
The Cleveland Bay Horse Society studbook was a huge bonus for the breed as it was a register for the horses that would verify their pedigrees and from that would have an impact on trade and values.
www.clevelandbay.com /history.htm   (8947 words)

  
 Online Exhibits at the Cleveland Memory Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Great Lakes Industrial History Center provides a resource where the public can gain an appreciation for the efforts and accomplishments of business and industry which led to the opening of the Great Lakes and the industrial development of adjacent regions and where visitors are inspired to continue the pursuit of inventiveness, ingenuity, and excellence.
Formed within the Urban University Program Centers at Cleveland State University, Youngstown State University, Kent State University and the University of Akron, the SL Partnership is dedicated to serving as a regional resource for the research and documentation of the history, institutional memory, architecture, aesthetic features and current uses of sacred landmarks in the region.
Situated between Cleveland to the east and the Rocky River on the west, Lakewood, Ohio occupies 5.6 square miles along the southern shore of Lake Erie.
www.clevelandmemory.org /exhibits   (2491 words)

  
 Lorraine's Top Family History Sites - England sites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
http://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/ - The Isle of Wight Family History Society.
http://www.bmsgh.org/ - The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry.
http://www.cwaas.org.uk/index.htm - Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.
www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au /index.asp?id=2602   (732 words)

  
 Family History Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Family History Society is a society, often charitable or non-profit making, where genealogists and family historians can profit from shared knowledge.
Some societies offer large collections of original source material, others concentrate on the family history of a particular geographical area.
Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Family_History_Society   (146 words)

  
 Cleveland History Blog
He recently established a local history endowment fund to benefit Special Collections, which he designed especially to allow contributions from people who didn't have the funds to reach the minimum amounts for such funds.
The Historical Society will be creating the content and exhibitry for a proposed Steel Heritage Center at the Steelyard Commons shopping center, which is being built on the land formerly occupied by Otis Steel, and the WRHS Steel Archives will be providing a great deal of photographs and archival materials.
Cleveland's beautiful Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park had fallen on hard times in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, as people stole statues for scrap, dug up plantings and trashed these famous landscapes, created earlier in the century to commemorate the many ethnic groups who composed greater Cleveland.
clevhist.blogspot.com   (3428 words)

  
 The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland History
Probate Judge Alexander Hadden served as president of the Society board until 1920 and was honorary president until 1926.
The Society's first annual report refers to a measure to regulate moneylenders who were charging poor people interest rates of 60% to 200%.
Even before the Society was formally incorporated, its founders attempted to remedy the notorious exploitation of poor people by township justices of the peace in so called "Poor Man's Courts." The justices ranged freely into Cleveland, which had no court of its own.
www.lasclev.org /history.html   (657 words)

  
 This is The North East | CommuniGate | Homepage
The Society is more formally known as The Cleveland, N. Yorks.
It was formed to cover a perceived gap in the coverage of the neighbouring societies, Northumberland and Durham FHS and the various societies serving Yorkshire.
The Cleveland Family History Society aims to promote the study of genealogy and family history and to educate the public therein by holding meetings, sharing information, encouraging research, giving assistance, and producing publications for the public benefit.
www.communigate.co.uk /ne/clevelandfhs   (117 words)

  
 The genealogy of John Robinson Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
I began to aquire a lot of data, read books on genealogy and joined family history societies.
During this time I got together with a group of others and founded the Cleveland Family History Society.
Family commitments took my time and for the next 17 years my research came to a standstill.
www.jaydax.co.uk /family   (364 words)

  
 Index of The Society of Art and History 1910-11, Cleveland, OH
Index of The Society of Art and History 1910-11, Cleveland, OH The Society of Art and History 1910-11
The Society of Art and History, Cleveland, Ohio, 1910-11.
The Family Tree Connection database includes information indexed from a variety of sources such as school yearbooks, city directories, insurance records, vehicle registrations, club member lists, church records and more.
www.familytreeconnection.com /resources/ftc695.html   (88 words)

  
 This is The North East | CommuniGate | Local History Sources
The Society was started in 1968 for those interested in the history of the region.
The Society covers the Cleveland and Teesside region, which includes: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton and North Yorkshire.
It ranges from history to folk-lore, through dialect and place names and there is a comprehensive gazetteer of groups and societies, local communities, and local governments throughout the area.
www.communigate.co.uk /ne/teesspeak/page30.phtml   (323 words)

  
 Research on Jewish Family History - Western Reserve Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Cleveland: Western Reserve Historical Society and the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, 1987.
Glenville Cemetery; at 13009 Shaw Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio, of the B’nai Jeshurun Congregation.
Cleveland: The Western Reserve Historical Society and the Jewish Community Federation, 1978.
www.wrhs.org /library/template.asp?id=260   (756 words)

  
 GENUKI: Family History and Genealogy Societies - England
Otherwise, if the society is a member of the The Federation of Family History Societies, or the Scottish Association of Family History Societies, we provide a link to the postal address listings these provide.
NOTE: We do not attempt to provide information about the large number of societies that relate just to particular surnames - many of these are in any case members of, and listed in the directory maintained by, the Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS).
* identifies societies that are members of the Federation of Family History Societies.
www.genuki.org.uk /Societies/England.html   (316 words)

  
 Cleveland History - Western Reserve Historical Society
In September, 2007, WRHS plans an exhibit about Cleveland's involvement in World War II.
Whether you or someone you know was on a battlefield far from hom or living and working here in the Cleveland area to assist the war effort, WRHS is looking for personal histories and original materials such as photographs and letters.
WRHS will not be purchasing any materials or, in most cases, taking materials on loan, but will accept some original material by donation.
www.wrhs.org   (284 words)

  
 Hungarian Genealogy Books Search Your Hungary Family History
Researching your family's history is a bit of a detective game.
Hungary's history is sometimes difficult to research due to the impact of wars, the Holocaust and border realignments.
Elizabeth Shown Mills' stunning book, Evidence!, provides the family history researcher with a reliable standard for both the correct form of source citation and the sound analysis of evidence.
www.hungarianbookstore.com /genealogy.htm   (929 words)

  
 James Flack: Family History and Genealogy Page.
Cleveland Family History Society - The Society is more formally known as The Cleveland, N. Yorks.
The Browne Family Tree - This family tree has lots of Cambridge and Norfolk people in it.
The Grocott-Hall History website - This very comprehensive tree links into my own Flack Tree via CHARLES HALL (b.1859) and ELIZA ANN LEAKER (b.1854) who was the daughter of Eliza Ann Bezzant.
www.jamesflack.com /genealogy/familylinks.php   (844 words)

  
 - Family History Online
The second edition of the National Burial Index with 13.2 million burials and a flexible search program is available in a package of four CD-ROMS from many family history societies and GENfair, the online bookshop of the Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd.
While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the appropriate registers (or facsimiles thereof, e.g.
The Cleveland Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the registers.)
www.familyhistoryonline.net /database/NBIClevelandFHS.shtml   (355 words)

  
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I have always been vaguely interested in my family's history, but only became serious about researching it around 7 years ago.
I am also a keen writer, principally of science fiction, fantasy and horror, and a big fan of 'cult' sf programmes such as X Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, Farscape, Firefly, Stargate, Millennium and the 'classics' Dr Who (both old and new version), Blakes Seven, Space 1999 and the Star Trek franchises.
I have two younger brothers, Tim and Dan and have two nephews and niece and two step-nephews and two neices courtesy of Liz's family.
rainegenealogy.com   (337 words)

  
 Organisations & Societies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Folkestone and District Family History Society ~ Southeast Kent, England
The Isle of Axholme Family History Society ~ Lincolnshire
Ripon Historical Society and the Ripon, Harrogate and District Family History Group
hometown.aol.com /k2m3/soc.html   (167 words)

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