u3a

Our next meeting is on Friday 6 November at the Mechanics Institute, starting at 2.00 pm.  We will be helping members of the group who are trying to solve mysteries and problems which have arisen during their family history research.

At our last meeting we heard about how a member had come across a cousin she didn’t know she had, purely by accident at a u3a event earlier this year. They are now in contact. Our member came to ask the group for pointers about how to fill in the gaps in her family history. Her story about being brought up in Norfolk and her family running a flour mill was very interesting. We were also told another story by another member and we are now trying to investigate this for her. We hope to have some news for her at our next meeting.

This is a very friendly and supportive group.  Some members have a lot of experience in researching family history, others only a little, but we all help one another.  Some meetings look at a particular topic, or we might have a speaker.  We also go on occasional visits, for example in June 2025 we visited the Keighley Local Studies Library.

New members are welcome.

Refreshments available.

There is a charge of £3.50 per session for the room hire.