Next Meeting - Monday 11th June 2012
at the 'Old Coventrians', Tile Hill Lane, Coventry
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Coventry Family History Society Journal March 2012
The Marach 2012 edition of our Journal is now available. Click the cover picture to read the highlights.
Join the Society and receive your copy.
New from our Bookshop
(as at 18 February 2012 - see shop for details & full list)
Against All Odds (WW1, WW2 and post war years) @ £4.50 plus £0.98 p/p
Coventry Then and Now in colour by David McGrory @ £12.99 plus £1.30 p/p
Coventry We Have Lost - Earlsdon and Chapelfields Explored by David Fry and Albert Smith @ £8.95 plus £1.85 p/p
Members Interests
The on-line database has been updated - February 2012
Request for help
Pete Chandler is trying to track down a copy of a late 1970's BBC Horizon programme which featured Hillfields and specifically Weston Street. The programme is of sentimental value and featured his grandmother, who lived in Weston Street before the war. Sadly this programme is not available from the BBC or Coventry archives. If you are able to help, please
Coventry History Centre
On 1st September 2008 Coventry History Centre opened in its new location in the refurbished and extended Herbert complex. The History Centre combines the Coventry Archives and the Local Studies Library in one location, enabling much better access to the wealth of historical information they can provide. The opening hours are Tuesday to Saturday 10.30am to 3.30pm. Closed Monday and Sunday. More information is available on their website at www.theherbert.org
Warwickshire's Past Unlocked
Warwickshire County Record Office has launched its online catalogue, Warwickshire's Past Unlocked, which describes many of their original archives. Charting over 900 years of Warwickshire's documentary past it provides an electronic signpost to these fascinating documents.
www.warwickshire.gov.uk/archivesunlocked
Coventry-based Research
Jane Hewitt, a member of this Society, has a website offering research services based especially on Coventry. Her site includes a list of Coventry Blitz Victims, old occupation definitions, Local Home Guard Photos and memorabilia.
www.familyresearcher.co.uk
A link to this website is also available from our
General Links page
Family Tree Portraits
A new Coventry-based business producing quality framed family tree portraits from your photos.
Also has a new 'Archive of Faces' where you can upload and search photos of people.
www.familytreeportraits.com
Order your certificates On-Line
It is now possible to order birth, marriage and death certificates on-line if you know the full GRO reference. Full details of the service can be found on their website at www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate
A link to their website is also available from our General Links page
Photos need restoring?
A local (to Coventry) photo restoration service is available
from Torn Corner.
A link to their website is also available from our
General Links page
Comments and suggestions regarding this site are always welcomed by the