Ancestry is a great website for family historians and it can also be accessed for free in our searchroom by anyone from the general public who wants to visit Warwickshire County Record Office during our opening hours.
Rowan Fisher, Learning and Outreach Officer at Warwickshire County Record Office
Family historians can benefit from a forthcoming workshop to be run by Warwickshire County Council.
On Saturday 26 June, Warwickshire County Record Office is hosting a workshop looking specifically at the popular family history website ww.ancestry.co.uk.
Family history is now easier than ever and much of it can be done from the comfort of your own home, local library or Record Office through websites such as Ancestry.
The workshop will be run by experienced family historian Jennifer Cranfield, who will help attendees to get the best out of Ancestry. Jennifer will show how to navigate the site and how to use the search facility most efficiently.
As well as looking at more common searches using the census and birth, marriage and death records, Jennifer will also introduce Ancestry’s military and immigration records.
Rowan Fisher, Learning and Outreach Officer at Warwickshire County Record Office, says: “Ancestry is a great website for family historians and it can also be accessed for free in our searchroom by anyone from the general public who wants to visit Warwickshire County Record Office during our opening hours.”
“Ancestry.co.uk” is being held on Saturday 26 June between 9.15 am and 12.15 pm at Warwickshire County Record Office, Priory Park, off Cape Road, Warwick. Tickets cost £12.00 and booking is strongly recommended, by calling 01926 738959 Tuesday to Saturday.
Warwickshire County Record Office is involved in safeguarding, managing and developing Warwickshire's archives so that they can be accessed, interpreted and enjoyed by all those with an interest in Warwickshire's past and its people. We hold records dating from the twelfth century up to the twenty first.
Visit www.warwickshire.gov.uk/countyrecordoffice for more information on general opening times, directions and other useful information.