Web Talks

Laurie Page takes us through the process of looking at migration patterns and how it affected families. Clues and where to look when you reach a dead end.

Natalie Bodle is a professionally qualified genealogist and tour guide as well as a speaker on the international circuit.

I completed Post Graduate Certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies with the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, with the aim of setting up my own business as a genealogist and family historian. 

I deliver regular genealogy courses and also provide talks and workshops locally, nationally and internationally. 

Conserving your family archive by Sue Gibbons.  Sue is a Librarian of the Society of Genealogists 1991-2010.  Sue is author of a  book for the Anglo-German Family History Society, currently working on one of the Shopkeepers for the Society of Genealogists and Fellow of the Society of Genealogists

The talk covers general principles, Paper, Photographs, Etchings & Paintings, Textiles, Objects (e.g. Furniture, Jewellery, Ceramics, Toys), Digital Media

Alan takes us through what to look for in old maps

A general look at the Fishing Trade that will also include the local trade including Brighton & the south coast 

A general look at the Fishing Trade that will also include the local trade including Brighton & the south coast 

Author Jean Renwick reveals the intense research behind the first two novels in her trilogy inspired by an inherited mourning brooch

Presenting your Family History Research - improving the content and the medium, Preserving your research to an individual or institution, preserving it for the future.

The 1939 National Register has been compared to an additional census for England and Wales. However, it is so much more than this. The register may have been assembled in 1939, but the Government constantly updated the 1939 National Register over time to take account of changes of name, deaths or other important information.

The Speaker is Christopher Whittick DL, MA, FSA, FRHistS -  a Trustee of FoTKA.

Christopher read law at Worcester College, Oxford, thereafter qualifying as an archivist in 1975. He joined East Sussex Record Office in 1977, working as Senior Archivist. In 2016 he became  East Sussex County Archivist until 2019.

Christopher has a particular interest in medieval crime and administration, and in the application of archives to the study of standing buildings.

He has had an academic career, the depth and breadth of which speaks for itself:

writing many entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and authoring books on East Sussex artist Eric Ravilious, and many other subjects.

His edition (with Ian Forrest) of the episcopal visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397 was published by the Canterbury and York Society in 2021.

Christopher has taught palaeography throughout England and Wales. He has been associated with many societies, including Sussex Archaeological Society, Wealden Iron Research Group, and the Royal Historical Society.

He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of East Sussex in 2017.

The Talk No attempt to paraphrase Christopher’s talk can do justice to a tale that begins in 19C Spain; explores the intricacies of heredity and clash of cultures of the Spanish Royal Family; visits England and ends in Trieste. Christopher will guide us on this journey with academic thoroughness, engaging detail and not a little humour!