The Hampshire Family Historian | Vol.48 No.3 | December 2021

Local Group Programmes

Meetings Some groups are having their meetings online, to join these please email the group leader for details. As restrictions have eased some groups are resuming face to face meeting at their normal venue if you are able please check the HGS Website for latest details of where / how the meetings will take place. This may need to change at short notice if there is amendment to restrictions. Sometimes the same talk has been given to more than one group, especially at the moment with Zoom meetings, as speakers do not need to travel. Each group submits its own reports so there will some overlap but maybe a slightly different slant on the report. As is normal with the December journal, the text is prepared at the end of October to give layout company and printer time to produce and mail out the journal for the 1st of December. Some groups this far in advance are still sorting their next years programme and details are not yet available.

Contact: Jane Hurst – 82, The Butts, Alton, Hants GU34 1RD Tel: 01420 86701 Email: janehurst1@gmail.com

Alton Meetings are normally held monthly on the second Monday at 7:30 p.m. in All Saints Church Hall, Queens Road, Alton.

The group are not meeting at present and members are encouraged to visit other group’s Zoom meetings. Forthcoming Meetings:

No details available

Contact: Ann McKenzie, Tel: 07733 112975, E-mail: andover@hgs-online.org.uk

Andover Meetings are normally held on the second Thursday, September to July, commencing 7.30p.m. at The Fairground Hall, Weyhill, Andover SP11 0QN Reports by Richard Backhouse (August) Hidden In Plain Sight – Mia Bennett.

Like our July speaker, Mia supplied us with a cribsheet in advance of her talk. This was very helpful since much of her presentation described the multitude of free websites that genealogists can now access. Having the exact URL provided, with an active link, meant

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