20 November 2024
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Join us for the December Family Tree Study Club meeting, at which Phil Isherwood will be presenting a very useful case study in which he will showcase his research steps
When Phil discovered his wife had an aunt with the extraordinary name of “Gonda”, and that neither she nor her family had ever heard of her, he was surprised. When he tried researching her life, he was baffled. She simply seemed to disappear from the genealogical record after the 1930s. What had happened?
By branching out into diverse sources, Phil was able to paint a picture of an upper-class girl who was presented at court, yet at the same time was an adventurous young woman of character – an early aviatrix, a talented artist, a horsewoman, and who travelled the world, before dying tragically young in an outpost of empire.
This presentation will be useful for family historians who:
• Want to investigate the lives of ancestors who lived in the census-poor early and mid-20th century
• Have ancestors who were mobile during the age of Empire
• Have discovered little from traditional genealogical sources.
When & where?
The meeting will take place on Zoom, on Monday 9th December, 6.30pm. (UK time)
How to join the meeting
This presentation is part of the Study Club programme brought to you by Family Tree Plus.
The session is available four ways:
1. to those on a 7-day free trial to Family Tree Plus (to take a free trial see www.family-tree.co.uk/membership)
2. to members of Family Tree Plus (£9.99 a month for non-subscribers) - for details, see here.
3. Study Club sessions are also available to Family Tree magazine subscribers (print or digital editions) as part of their subscription. To find out how you can subscribe, see here.
4. To purchasers of an individual Zoom ticket to the event:
Got a query? Email us a [email protected]
About the speaker
Phil Isherwood is a family history speaker and writer alongside his full-time career in the IT industry. He is a family history advisor for Oxfordshire FHS and co-founder of Pro-Am Genies, a networking group for professional and aspiring pro genealogists. You can follow him on Twitter: @isherwood_phil.
