Our next Zoom talk is on 20th January @ 7.30pm. The speaker is Stephen Gill, the talk is called ‘The History of Family Photography’ - and how you can use details within a photograph to tell its' story'. Email [email protected] for the link.

we have 2 talks coming up - to register email [email protected] 17 Feb @ 7.30pm Karen Adams will talk about the ‘Trials and Executions at York’. Then 17 March @ 7.30pm is ‘Behind the scenes working for Who Do You Think You Are’ by Gill Blanchard.

Our next free talk is on Wednesday 21st April @ 7.30pm ‘Getting the best from newspaper websites’ by John Hanson. Email Geoff at [email protected] for the link, or leave a message on 01653 628132.

Great news, our next online talk is on Wed 19 May @ 7.00pm, entitled 'Getting the most from a visit to The National Archives' by Les Mitchinson, who has been a professional genealogist for over a decade. Register at members@ryedalefamilyhistory

Our next zoom talk is on 16 June @ 7.00pm - “Birth and Death - Hidden Secrets of Registration", by Antony Marr, who will look at the complex rules of registering birth & death events, uncovering the hidden information they can hold. To book email [email protected]

Our AGM & talk will take place virtually 21st July @ 7:00 pm. Andrew Thornton will present a talk on ‘We are CWGC – a introduction to the history and ongoing work of the Commonwealth War Graves . The talk is free & open to all, for link email [email protected]

Our next Zoom talk is on 18 August @ 7.30pm, ‘One Name Studies’ by Paul Featherstone, Chair of the Guild of One Name Studies. The meeting is free & open to all, to join the talk & receive the link email [email protected]

Our next virtual talk takes place on Wednesday 8 September 2012 @ 7.30pm. The topic is ‘A Bomber Memorial in Denmark’ by Malcolm Brooke. For the link to join us email [email protected]

Our next online talk is on 20 Oct @ 7.30pm. Speaker Ian Waller talks about ‘Manorial Worth - records from the medieval Manors’. Talk is free & open to all. To register interest & receive the link for the talk email Geoff at: [email protected]

Infectious diseases are the topic for the next online talk on Wednesday 10 November @ 7.30pm. The talk is ‘A plague upon all your houses: epidemic diseases and our ancestors’ by Janet Few- for link email Geoff at: [email protected]

Our first talk is 19 Jan @ 7.30pm on Zoom, Antony Marr, will be talking about ‘What makes a Marriage - Rules and Records’. The talk is free & open to anyone to join, to register interest and book a place email Geoff at [email protected].

Great news! We have organised for specialist family historian and speaker Jackie Depelle, to give a talk by Zoom on Wednesday 16 February at 7.30pm. The talk is ‘Discovering Family History - What’s it all About’. Email Geoff for the link at [email protected]

Join us this Wednesday, March 2nd, when speaker Colin Hinson will be telling us all about the GENUKI website; what is on it particularly Yorkshire, how to use it & a look at some of the software & databases involved. Email Geoff for the link at [email protected]

The 1st live in-person talk on 16 March @ 7.30pm @ Hovingham Village Hall. It will also be screened through Zoom. ‘A tale of two Censuses’ by Philippa Jarvis. Email [email protected] for the Zoom link.

Recently published is latest book in the War Memorials of Ryedale series, ‘Birdsall War Memorial’. The book contains mini biographies of 22 men who were killed in both World Wars. The book is in full colour and is available through the website ryedalefamilyhistory.org.

Our next talk is on 20 April @ 7.30pm @ Hovingham Village Hall. Rob Thompson whose talk is ‘The Blunderous early life of M’Lord Cardigan’. Rob will be taking a stroll through the gossip columns of the nineteenth century The meeting is free email [email protected]

Our next talk is on 18 May @ 7.30pm, ‘Transported Across the Sea’ Les Mitchinson will look @ a case study of a petty criminal sentenced to transportation to Australia and ends happily! The meeting is free & open to all for the link email Geoff [email protected].

Our next talk is 15 June @ 7.30pm aat North Yorkshire Moors National Park Committee Room, Helmsley, also bon Zoom. Val Slater will talk about ' Walls Clan of Coverdale’. The meeting is free & open to all, more info contact Andie on email @ [email protected]

Our AGM is on 20 July @ 7.00pm through Zoom and will be followed by an entertaining talk by Chris Broom who is a professional genealogy tutor and researcher. To pre book for the event & receive Zoom link please email Geoff at [email protected]

Our next online talk is on 17 August @ 7.30 pm ‘A trip through Sticklepath with Auntie Kate’, by Helen Shields, who is an active member of Ryedale Family History Group and runs the 1 place study of Sticklepath in Devon. To register email [email protected].