English Family History Research Tour--London, England

May 17, 2009 - May 24, 2009

The English Family History Tour to London is an essential research trip for genealogists with British Ancestry. Based at the Society of Genealogists (SoG), researchers will be offered daily classes providing historical context and research methodology tips for working with the extensive record collection of the SoG. The library’s holdings include more than 120,000 books and microforms featuring census indexes; family histories; biographies; service, professional, and trade directories; an apprenticeship index (1710-1774), school and university lists, will and marriage license indexes; runs of Burke’s Peerage and Landed Gentry; a large number of manuscripts arranged by surname; and a miscellaneous card index of 3 million references.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Sunday, May 17
After 3 p.m. Check in, Holiday Inn
6–7 p.m. Cash bar reception
7–9 p.m. Welcome dinner

Monday, May 18
10–11:30 a.m. Orientation, SoG Library
11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. Lecture: “Bridging the Atlantic”
2–4 p.m. Tour: Fulham Palace

Tuesday, May 19
10–11:30 a.m. SoG class: “Researching Before 1700, Part I”
11:45a.m.–1 p.m. Optional SoG class: “Literature of British Genealogy”
11:45a.m.–5:45 p.m. SoG research & consultations

Wednesday, May 20
10–11:30 a.m. SoG class: “Researching Before 1700, Part II”
11:45 a.m.–1 p.m. Optional SoG class: “Scottish and Irish Sources at SoG”
11:45 a.m.–5:45 p.m. SoG research & consultations

Thursday, May 21
10–11:30 a.m. SoG class: English Church Records
11:30 a.m.–6 p.m. Optional: Bus trip to Kew Archives
11:45 a.m.–1 p.m. Optional SoG class: “London Sources in the SoG and Online”
11:45 a.m.–5:45 p.m. SoG research and consultations

Friday, May 22
10 –11:30 a.m. SoG class: “18th and 19th Century English Research”
11:30 a.m.–6 p.m. Optional: Bus trip to Kew Archives
11:45 a.m.–1 p.m. Optional SoG class: “Sources for Professions and Apprenticeships”
11:45 a.m.–5:45 p.m. SoG research and consulatations
6–7 p.m. Cash bar reception, Holiday Inn
7–9 p.m. Farewell dinner, Holiday Inn

Saturday, May 23
10–11:30 a.m. TNA Kew class: “What Did Your Ancestors Do?
11:45 a.m.–1 p.m. TNA Kew orientation
1 p.m.–4:45 p.m. TNA research and consultations

Sunday, May 24
Before 12 p.m. Check out, Holiday Inn

GENEALOGISTS

CHRISTOPHER CHALLENDER CHILD is a genealogist of the Newbury Street Press. His genealogical interests include the American and English descendants of Wolstone and Ellen (Empson) Childe of London; southern New England, especially Connecticut; ancestry of notable figures, especially presidents; and DNA research. Chris’s work has recently been featured in various media outlets including CNN and Fox News. He served as a consulting genealogist on the Society’s 2007 English Family History Research Tour.

DAVID CURTIS DEARBORN, F.A.S.G, is an NEHGS genealogist. He has written numerous articles in scholarly journals and assisted with many published books. David’s genealogical expertise includes English and Scottish genealogy, the Dearborn Family, and families of Essex County, Massachusetts, as well as Maine, New Hampshire,Vermont, and New York City. He served as consulting genealogist and lecturer on the Society’s 2007 English Family History Research Tour.

ELSE CHURCHILL is the genealogist of the Society of Genealogists (SoG) in London, the U.K.’s largest family history library. She has been a professional genealogist for more than twenty years, and since 1998 has served as the chief genealogical officer of the SoG. She is an expert in
seventeenth-century English ancestry.