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The Ryedale Family History Group is now in its sixth year, and now has over 250 members world wide. It holds monthly meetings on the third Wednesday of the month at various locations around Ryedale to which everyone is welcome and admission is free. The Group has a permanent Research Room at Hovingham Village Hall which is open every Thursday from 10am to 3pm and at any other time by request. It is free to members and a day membership is available to anyone else wishing to come along. Expert advice is available to those researching their family trees as well as equipment for on line searches. Much work has already been done in transcribing Memorial Inscriptions which are published on CD ROMs, but also printed paper editions. The Group has recently obtained a Heritage Lottery Grant which has enabled it to set up a three year project, “Looking Back but Moving Forward”. The bulk of this money is to be spent on transcribing Ryedale Parish Records of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. The Project is also researching Ryedale War Memorials, recording Memorial Inscriptions, working with schools on Family History, and organising an annual Family History Fair. Volunteers are needed for all of these aspects of the Project. If anyone would like to become involved as a volunteer, the following are contacts: Transcribing Parish Records, Janice Wood,
Janwood50@btinterent.com The Group also has a web site which is regularly updated. It is at www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org . This can be checked for details of meetings and the list of CDs for sale. Peter Braithwaite. |