Entries from The Caird Library Blog tagged with 'Family history'
Navy Day at Gosport Discovery Centre
We thought that Caird Library readers would be interested in an event at Gosport Discovery Centre on 9 June. The Navy Day will include a workshop on interpreting naval photographs and a video presentation of the Royal Navy in films....
Naval Ancestors: Who do You think they were?
The last Saturday in September saw a small gathering at The National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Dockyard for the Naval Ancestors: Who Do You Think They Were? workshop. Researchers gathered to broaden their knowledge of Service Records,...
Archive and Library team at Navy Days, Portsmouth
Over 25,000 people visited Portsmouth Dockyard for the Navy Days event last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Attractions included 12 ships from the Victory of 1765 to HMS Daring of 2005, not to mention roving bands of eighteenth century sailors and...
Meet your navy at HM Naval Base, Portsmouth
We are pleased to be joining Jenny Wraight, the Admiralty Librarian at Naval Historical Branch, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, together with colleagues from the Imperial War Museum and Hampshire Libraries, at the forthcoming Meet Your Navy event, being held from...
Births, deaths and marriages at sea
The NMM Archive and Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of copies of the Registers of births, deaths and marriages at sea, 1854-1890, from the General Register and Record Office of Shipping and Seamen [microform version]. This resource...
Revised Research guides
We are pleased to announce that six of our most popular Research guides have been revised and are available on our website, see http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/library/. Researched and written by the highly respected merchant naval historian and genealogist, Dr Christopher Watts, they...
New Parish Records for London's Docklands
March saw Find My Past add 44,000 new baptisms for London's Docklands to their Parish Records collection. The new records have been released in partnership with Dockland's Ancestors and are a must for any researcher trying to trace their east...
Greenwich Lives
Greenwich Lives Family History event, 28 September 2008Now that the Beijing Olympics has drawn to a close, it's time to start looking ahead to the exciting prospect of the 2012 games in London. This weekend (26-28 September) sees the launch...
Caird TV
The phones have been ringing off the hook since the airing of the David Suchet episode of Who Do You Think You Are on Wednesday night. If you didn't see it there's still time to catch up as the episode...
Who do you think you are?
The archive and library at the National Maritime Museum can be an invaluable resource when researching any maritime related family history. If your genealogical tree holds any members from a maritime background, be it the merchant navy, the Royal...
Family history afternoon this Saturday (15 September)
Are you interested in researching your family history? Perhaps you have some maritime ancestors but don’t know how to find out about them. Come along to the E-Library this Saturday afternoon between 12.00 and 16.00, where we will be holding...
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