Bristol & Avon
Family History Society

We invite you to join us live at BAWA for our October members’ meeting. The talk, entitled “Bristol Blitz”, will be presented by Robert Pritchard who is the Co-Leader of The Bristol Branch of the Historical Association. Date and time: Monday, 14th October 2024 at 7-30pm (doors open 7-00pm).This event is in-person only at BAWA, Conference Room 1 (upstairs).

A Bath Group talk by Anne Buchanan on Monday 23 September, 7-30pm. Computers and databases can only tell you so much. Archives and Local Studies collections are full of documents and ephemera that can help you fill in some of your family history background. This talk will introduce you to the type of material you might find in an archive, and suggestions on how to find it. This talk is online and available to members only (joining details sent by email).

Our opening Bristol Group meeting of the season will be in-person, on Monday 9 September, 7.30pm at BAWA. Each one of Bristol’s bridges has a fascinating story which is woven intimately into the 1,000-year history of the city and Jeff Lucas, from Bristol Civic Society, will be telling us about them.

Our friends at Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution are celebrating their bicentenary with a talk on Friday 26 September – “Literary, lively, learned: Farleigh Castle & Bath in 1824” by Dr Mary Redmayne. This may be of interest as it derives from carrying out research into family from New Zealand which is where Mary is based. Find out more on their website.