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The workshop schedule is detailed below - book your place now!

Booking your place using the Ticket Factory website: simply scroll through the lecture and workshop listing on the Ticket Factory website (lectures are listed first, in time order, following by all workshops), or use the search facility at the top of the page to find your chosen lecture or workshop.

The workshops are split into the following categories:  

• DNA workshops
• Beginner workshops
• Records workshops
• Place-based workshops
• Research skills workshops
• 'Next steps' workshops
• Miscellaneous workshops

'Miscellaneous' workshop programme is as follows…

	Friday 17 April	Saturday 18 April
10.30am	Jewish ancestors with Jeanette Rosenberg: How to trace them and where to look	Get tips on turning your ancestors’ lives into a compelling narrative with Ruth Badley: Learn how to create an heirloom for future generations to treasure
11.30am	Researching your Northamptonshire ancestors with Angela Malin: Get specialist local advice on how to trace family from the area	Top tips on using FreeBMD with Graham Hart, one of the founders of the project: Learn how to get the most from this hugely helpful free birth, marriage & death website
12.30pm	Get tips on turning your ancestors' lives into a compelling narrative with Ruth Badley: Learn how to create an heirloom for future generations to treasure	FULLY BOOKED After death, what? The value of cemetery visits and what to do when you are there and afterwards with Ian Waller: A look at the value of walking around a cemetery, investigating information on gravestones and how useful they are to family historians
1.30pm	FULLY BOOKED Finding clues in a churchyard visit with Julie Aspin: Glean tips on how to plan your research and locate these clues carved in stone	FULLY BOOKED Learn to master old handwriting with Susie Douglas: Gain new palaeography skills to improve your genealogy research skills
2.30pm	Find your notable Victorian with Mike Sharpe: Learn how to spot the remarkable Victorian characters in your family and how to write up their stories into a compelling family history	Top tips on using FreeBMD with Graham Hart, one of the founders of the project: Learn how to get the most from this hugely helpful free birth, marriage & death website

Lectures and workshops are included with admission, but booking is required, and places are reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. Programme may be subject to change.