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SUMMARY:Maidstone - Branch AGM & Transcription evening
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 14th April 2027\, 19:30\nMote Park Indoor Bowls Club\, Willow Way\, Maidstone ME15 7RN \nMaidstone – AGM + Transcriptions \nAbout the Meeting\nWe will start with the branch AGM\, which is an extremely short meeting to elect our committee for the coming year and to accept the branch accounts. We will then put our minds to transcribing documents for the members area of this website. All are welcome to attend and join in transcribing but guests may not vote at our AGM.
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/maidstone-branch-agm-transcription-evening/
LOCATION:Mote Park\, Mote Park Indoor Bowls Club\, Maidstone\, Kent\, ME15 7RN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Zoom - Hidden legacies: What Chancery Records Reveal about our ancestors
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 4th May 2027\, 20:00-21:15\nOnline – via Zoom\nVirtual – speaker Sarah Pettyfer \nIf you can’t make this talk a recording will be broadcast tomorrow 5th May 2027 at 10am (UK) \nConvert to times in your own part of the world clock here. \nAbout the Talk\nChancery records are one of the most under used resources for family history but can reveal so much about our ancestors’ lives\, their family\, social and business connections\, and their property. This talk will look at who and why our ancestors may have become involved in Chancery court case and explore the hidden stories to be found. \nAbout the Speaker\nSarah Pettyfer is a professional family\, house and local historian and author. She is an active member of the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA). She holds the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) Diploma in Genealogy. Drawing on her background as a family law solicitor\, her particular areas of interest are legal records\, in particular deeds\, Manorial court and Chancery court records. Although Sarah remain a member of the Law Society although\, is she is no longer practising as a family law solicitor. \nAbout Virtual talks for Kent Family History Society’s members.\n• Register in advance – Zoom will send you the joining details.\n• Meetings open between 15 and 5 minutes before the start time\n• It can be helpful to download Zoom’s free app\, but it is not obligatory.\n• Can’t attend after registering? Let us know via the joining email link. \nNon-members please Join Us to access talks \nRegistration is not open\, please return to register closer to the date of the event.
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/zoom-hidden-legacies-what-chancery-records-reveal-about-our-ancestors/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270505T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270505T233000
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SUMMARY:Recording - Hidden legacies: What Chancery Records Reveal about our ancestors
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 05th 2027\, 10.00am\nZoom RECORDING\nVirtual – speaker Sarah Pettyfer \nAbout the Talk\nChancery records are one of the most under used resources for family history but can reveal so much about our ancestors’ lives\, their family\, social and business connections\, and their property. This talk will look at who and why our ancestors may have become involved in Chancery court case and explore the hidden stories to be found. \nAbout the Speaker\nSarah Pettyfer is a professional family\, house and local historian and author. She is an active member of the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA). She holds the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS) Diploma in Genealogy. Drawing on her background as a family law solicitor\, her particular areas of interest are legal records\, in particular deeds\, Manorial court and Chancery court records. Although Sarah remain a member of the Law Society although\, is she is no longer practising as a family law solicitor. \nNon-members please Join Us to access talks
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/recording-hidden-legacies-what-chancery-records-reveal-about-our-ancestors/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270512T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270512T213000
DTSTAMP:20260918T140638Z
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SUMMARY:Maidstone - Branch Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 12th May 2027\, 19:30\nMote Park Indoor Bowls Club\, Willow Way\, Maidstone ME15 7RN\nMaidstone – to be advised \nAbout the Meeting: Details to be advised
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/maidstone-branch-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270601T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270601T111500
DTSTAMP:20260918T141701Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom - "The cathedral stands grand and unhurt" ..... "though the streets burn": the bombing of Canterbury in 1942.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 1st June 2027\, 10:00-11:15\nOnline via Zoom\nVirtual – speaker Julian Waltho \nIf you can’t make this morning’s talk a recording will be broadcast today at 8pm (UK) \nConvert to times in your own part of the world clock here \n \nAbout the Talk\nJust after midnight on 31st May/1st June\, 85 years ago\, the citizens of Canterbury awoke to the first heavy bombing of the city. There had been strafing and bombs dropped by aircraft returning from major industrial targets but this was the first time the City of Canterbury\, a market town\, had been the prime target of an air raid. Two more raids followed in the same week with a further raid on 31st October 1942. In these four raids 76 people lost their lives\, whilst many more were injured and made homeless. These four raids are often referred to as the Baedeker Raids. Why were they called the Baedeker Raids\, why did Hitler order a heavy raid on a non industrial target\, and how did the city and citizens cope? \nAbout the speaker:\nJulian Waltho\, a history graduate of Oxford University\, taught History for 12 years in international schools in Rome Italy becoming fluent in Italian. Returning home he took up teaching posts in Kent and was 6th Form Head at Chatham House Grammar School\, Ramsgate\, and Deputy Head followed by Head Master of Kent College Senior School\, Canterbury. Upon retirement Julian has kept up his great interest in History becoming qualified both as a Green Badge Guide and a guide in Canterbury Cathedral. Recently he has been heavily involved with commemorating the civilian casualties of WWII. This resulted in an information board being placed in the Cty Cemetery at Westgate Court Avenue\, which is the final resting place for many who died due to enemy action in WWII. Julian is currently undertaking more research into the fourth raid on Canterbury on 31st October 1942. \nAbout Virtual talks for Kent Family History Society’s members.\n• Register in advance – a joining link will be sent to you.\n• Meetings open between 15 and 5 minutes before the start time\n• It can be helpful to download Zoom’s free app\, but it is not obligatory.\n• Can’t attend after registering? Let us know via the link in the joining email. \nNon-members please Join Us to access talks \nRegistration is not open\, please return to register closer to the date of the event.
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/zoom-the-cathedral-stands-grand-and-unhur-the-bombing-of-canterbury-in-1942/
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SUMMARY:Recording - "The cathedral stands grand and unhurt" ..... "though the streets burn": the bombing of Canterbury in 1942.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 1st June 2027\, 20.00\nZoom RECRODING\nVirtual – speaker Julian Waltho \n \nAbout the Talk\nJust after midnight on 31st May/1st June\, 85 years ago\, the citizens of Canterbury awoke to the first heavy bombing of the city. There had been strafing and bombs dropped by aircraft returning from major industrial targets but this was the first time the City of Canterbury\, a market town\, had been the prime target of an air raid. Two more raids followed in the same week with a further raid on 31st October 1942. In these four raids 76 people lost their lives\, whilst many more were injured and made homeless. These four raids are often referred to as the Baedeker Raids. Why were they called the Baedeker Raids\, why did Hitler order a heavy raid on a non industrial target\, and how did the city and citizens cope? \nAbout the speaker:\nJulian Waltho\, a history graduate of Oxford University\, taught History for 12 years in international schools in Rome Italy becoming fluent in Italian. Returning home he took up teaching posts in Kent and was 6th Form Head at Chatham House Grammar School\, Ramsgate\, and Deputy Head followed by Head Master of Kent College Senior School\, Canterbury. Upon retirement Julian has kept up his great interest in History becoming qualified both as a Green Badge Guide and a guide in Canterbury Cathedral. Recently he has been heavily involved with commemorating the civilian casualties of WWII. This resulted in an information board being placed in the Cty Cemetery at Westgate Court Avenue\, which is the final resting place for many who died due to enemy action in WWII. Julian is currently undertaking more research into the fourth raid on Canterbury on 31st October 1942. \nNon-members please Join Us to access talks
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/recording-the-cathedral-stands-grand-and-unhur-the-bombing-of-canterbury-in-1942/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270609T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270609T213000
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SUMMARY:Maidstone - Branch Open Meeting Jun27
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 9th June 2027\, 19:30\nMote Park Indoor Bowls Club\, Willow Way\, Maidstone ME15 7RN \nMaidstone – to be advised \nAbout the Meeting\nDetails to be advised
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/maidstone-branch-open-meeting-jun27/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270706T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270706T211500
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SUMMARY:Zoom - The rural fiction of S. C. Nethersole
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 6th July 2027\, 20:00-21:15\nOnline – via Zoom\nVirtual-speaker Dr Michelle Crowther \nIf you can’t make this talk a recording will be broadcast tomorrow\, Wednesday 7th July 2027 at 10am (UK)\nConvert to times in your own part of the world clock here. \nAbout the Talk\nThis talk will explore the works of Susie Colyer Nethersole (1869-1956)\, the author of 8 novels set in East Kent\, and consider the ways in which she wrote about the Kentish landscape. Her attention to detail is finely observed through weather and the changing seasons. Her stories show a tough grittily realistic rural life for her characters\, who struggle as well as thrive\, as modernity threatens their traditions. It’s her “warts and all” portrayal of Kent’s rural past that marks her out as more than just a writer of romance fiction. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr Michelle Crowther is an Academic Librarian at Christ Church University Canterbury and co-lead of the Kent Maps Online project. Her research interests include Victorian and Edwardian literature\, manuscript magazines\, biography\, rural writers\, and 19th century Canterbury. \nAbout Virtual talks for Kent Family History Society’s members.\n• Register in advance – Zoom will send you the joining details.\n• Meetings open between 15 and 5 minutes before the start time\n• It can be helpful to download Zoom’s free app\, but it is not obligatory.\n• Can’t attend after registering? Let us know via the joining email link. \nNon-members please Join Us to access talks
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/zoom-the-rural-fiction-of-s-c-nethersole/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270707T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270707T233000
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SUMMARY:Recording - The rural fiction of S. C. Nethersole
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 7th July 2027\, 10.00\nZoom RECORDING\nVirtual-speaker Dr Michelle Crowther \nAbout the Talk\nThis talk will explore the works of Susie Colyer Nethersole (1869-1956)\, the author of 8 novels set in East Kent\, and consider the ways in which she wrote about the Kentish landscape. Her attention to detail is finely observed through weather and the changing seasons. Her stories show a tough grittily realistic rural life for her characters\, who struggle as well as thrive\, as modernity threatens their traditions. It’s her “warts and all” portrayal of Kent’s rural past that marks her out as more than just a writer of romance fiction. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr Michelle Crowther is an Academic Librarian at Christ Church University Canterbury and co-lead of the Kent Maps Online project. Her research interests include Victorian and Edwardian literature\, manuscript magazines\, biography\, rural writers\, and 19th century Canterbury. \nNon-members please Join Us to access talks
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/recording-the-rural-fiction-of-s-c-nethersole/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270803T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270803T111500
DTSTAMP:20260918T143658Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom - AI for Family History: What It Can (and Can't) Do for You
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 3rd August 2027\, 10:00-11:15\nOnline via Zoom\nVirtual – speaker Linda Hammond \nA Recording will be broadcast later today at 8pm (UK) \nConvert to times in your own part of the world clock here \nAbout the Talk\nA practical\, no-nonsense guide to using AI tools effectively (and knowing their limitations). Curious about how Artificial Intelligence can support your family history research? This engaging talk introduces you to the exciting ways AI can act as your genealogy assistant – helping you save time\, spark ideas\, and even bring your ancestors’ stories to life. \nAbout the speaker\nLinda Hammond is a Professional Qualified Genealogist with a lifelong interest in Family History and Local History with over 35 years of worldwide genealogical research experience. She is a regular speaker at family history shows and conferences. Linda is also a tutor for the University of Strathclyde on their Masters program. \nAbout Virtual talks for Kent Family History Society’s members.\n• Register in advance – Zoom will send joining details to you.\n• Meetings opens between 15 and 5 minutes before the start time.\n• It can be helpful to download Zoom’s free app\, but it’s not obligatory.\n• Can’t attend after registering? Let us know via the link in the joining email. \nNon-members please Join Kent FHS to access the talks \nRegistration is not open yet\, please return to register closer to the date of the event.
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/zoom-ai-for-family-history-what-it-can-and-cant-do-for-you/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270803T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270803T233000
DTSTAMP:20260918T143648Z
CREATED:20260918T143546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T143648Z
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SUMMARY:Recording - AI for Family History: What It Can (and Can't) Do for You
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 3rd August 2027\, 20.00\nZoom RECORDING\nVirtual – speaker Linda Hammond \nAbout the Talk\nA practical\, no-nonsense guide to using AI tools effectively (and knowing their limitations). Curious about how Artificial Intelligence can support your family history research? This engaging talk introduces you to the exciting ways AI can act as your genealogy assistant – helping you save time\, spark ideas\, and even bring your ancestors’ stories to life. \nAbout the speaker\nLinda Hammond is a Professional Qualified Genealogist with a lifelong interest in Family History and Local History with over 35 years of worldwide genealogical research experience. She is a regular speaker at family history shows and conferences. Linda is also a tutor for the University of Strathclyde on their Masters program. \nAbout Virtual talks for Kent Family History Society’s members.\n• Register in advance – Zoom will send joining details to you.\n• Meetings opens between 15 and 5 minutes before the start time.\n• It can be helpful to download Zoom’s free app\, but it’s not obligatory.\n• Can’t attend after registering? Let us know via the link in the joining email. \nNon-members please Join Kent FHS to access the talks \nRegistration is not open yet\, please return to register closer to the date of the event.
URL:https://kfhs.uk/events/all_events/recording-ai-for-family-history-what-it-can-and-cant-do-for-you/
LOCATION:Zoom
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