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Welcome to the YFH Genealogy Blog...an eclectic mix of news, views, information, random thoughts, advice, tips, wishes and periodic rants together with anything else we feel might be important for researching in Yorkshire!

  • Yorkshire Archaeological Society

    Posted: 22/09/10

    The following announcement has been released by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society:

    Over the next few weeks, the windows in the rest of Claremont are being refurbished. The workmen need a room to repair those that can be repaired and so will be using the Inventory Room for this work.This means that access to borrowing copies of the following journals will be extremely restricted: Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Yorkshire Parish Registers, Wakefield Court Rolls, Surtees Society, Gentleman's Magazine and some other journals. If you are hoping to borrow copies, please contact the Library for information on access. Reference copies of all the journals are still available, but we will have limited access to copies that you can borrow.This may cause a problem for a short while, but we hope that it will not be long before the library is back to normal, and can only apologise for any inconvenience. Jo

    M.J. Heron
    Honorary General Secretary
    Yorkshire Archaeological Society
    Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9NZ
    Library Tel: 0113 245 7910.
    Fax: 0113 245 7922.
    Email: yas.secretary@googlemail.com
    Web Site: www.yas.org.uk
    Co. Ltd. by Guarantee No. 38346C. Registered Charity No. 224083

    Support the Yorkshire Archaeological Society by donating to the Claremont Windows Appeal <http://yas.org.uk/content/claremontwindowsapp.html>

  • City of York Archives & Local Studies

    Posted: 18/05/10

    The long awaited merged City of York Archives and the Local History Library will be opening in Explore York Library Learning Centre on Monday, 24th May 2010.

  • Hull History Centre

    Posted: 14/05/10

    'Hi-tech but welcoming', the new History Centre, opened in Hull on 25th January. Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull, Councillor Karen Woods added: 'We hope it will encourage people who haven't used the archives before to come inside, browse and even make some discoveries of their own'.

    The new centre will be home to the archives of Hull City Council and the University of Hull, and has been largely funded by a £7.7 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The total project cost £9.83 million

    A new centre, such as this is welcome news, at a time when many archives are being forced to look at cutbacks.

    www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk

    Article courtesy of: Family Tree, April 2010, (Genealogy News, p.8)

  • Useful Websites for Yorkshire Geneaology

    Posted: 01/05/10

    Where does one start...there are so many and covering so many different strands of genealogical research!

    Without doubt, one of the most useful genealogical reference sites for research within the British Isles must be GENUKI...an acronym for GENealogical research in the UK & Ireland, located at:

    www.genuki.org.uk/

    the site is arranged on a country and a county basis...the Yorkshire pages being located at:

    www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/

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