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Category: Group – Family History
Family History – next meeting on 20th August
Many thanks to Tom Miller for the photographs. The Family History Group meets once a month and have started using the DAR Social Centre on the Carretera Jesús Pobre in Jávea. The air conditioning was very welcome and it’s a lovely comfortable lounge. Good meeting, lovely quiche and cheesecake. We continue to meet throughout the…
Next Family History Meeting
The next Family History meeting will be next Tuesday 16th April at 3pm. The speaker at our meeting is Keith Smith, a stalwart of our Group. Keith’s subject is “On Convict Transportation – linking it into my tree. One of my ancestors had a shop in London in 1840 and he was a victim of…
Next Family History Meeting
Dear Arboreal Dwellers A quick reminder that our next Family History meeting is next Tuesday 19th March at 3pm in the Parador Hotel. We meet in the lounge to the right of the cafe lounge, if that is booked for something else we meet in the cafe lounge itself. This is our normal catch up meeting…
Murder mystery drama at Family History meeting
Members of the U3A’s Family History group were entertained to an excellent presentation by fellow member Duncan Petrie at their February meeting. Duncan began his talk with a reference to the late Michael Parkinson, who had been considered “not interesting enough” to be featured on BBC TV’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Duncan assured…
Memories of Christmas past
Tales of Christmas past took centre stage at the December meeting of the U3A’s Family History Group – with members recalling some of their most memorable, often humorous, stories. Among the storytellers were group leaders Lorely Griffiths and Jean Miller. For details of the group and future meetings email Lorely or Jean at family.history@u3ajavea.com