Family Tree Live event to return in May 2027

From the UK's Family Tree magazine: 

Family Tree Live returns with two-day celebration of family history

Family Tree Live, the UK’s leading live event for family historians, will return on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 May 2027, bringing expert genealogy advice, specialist exhibitors and immersive social history experiences to the unique setting of Statfold Country Park, home of Statfold Narrow Gauge Museum & National Fairground Museum, just outside of Tamworth, West Midlands.

Organised by Warners Group Publications, the company behind leading genealogy brand Family Tree, and sponsored by Ancestry, the global leader in family history, the two-day event is designed to inspire everyone from beginners to experienced researchers.

The event combines talks from leading genealogists in a dedicated lecture theatre, an exhibition hall of specialist family history providers, and hands-on social history attractions that bring the past vividly to life. Visitors can explore the National Fairground Museum, the Roundhouse locomotive museum and enjoy rides on the site’s much-loved narrow-gauge railways, creating a truly engaging, family-friendly experience.

‘We’re so excited to be relaunching Family Tree Live,’ said Matt Hill, Media Publisher of Family Tree. ‘The first event back in 2019 was a huge success but circumstances meant we were forced to explore online alternatives the following year. Now, with increasing demand for in-person events, we’re delighted to be able to relaunch the show at such a beautiful – and fun – heritage venue.’

The theme for Family Tree Live 2027 is ‘Your family story through time’, placing storytelling at the heart of the event and encouraging visitors to see their research as a journey across generations. The theme makes full use of the venue’s unique heritage attractions, helping family history feel immersive, accessible and engaging.

"Ancestry is delighted to be the headline sponsor for the return of Family Tree Live. Family history is fundamentally about connection, and there is nothing quite like the energy of the genealogy community coming together in person. This year’s theme, ‘Your family story through time,’ perfectly mirrors our mission to help everyone discover, preserve and share their family history. Whether visitors are just starting their journey or further exploring family connections, we are proud to help attendees bring their ancestors' stories to life." — Guljeet Samra, Senior Director of Marketing, Ancestry

A central feature of the event will be an interactive Family Story Trail, inviting visitors to uncover family history clues across four themed zones covering military ancestors, newspapers, DNA, and old occupations.

Family Tree Content Editor Helen Tovey said: ‘We’re absolutely delighted to see Family Tree Live on the calendar. It’s definitely going to be a family history event not to be missed. With a fabulous programme of talks, fascinating and super-helpful experts on-hand to help you explore your family tree, exhibitor and nostalgia attractions to enjoy, it’s going to be an absolute genealogy treat. We can’t wait to see you there!’

Family Tree Live 2027 is expected to attract thousands of attendees from across the UK and beyond, drawn from an active and highly engaged family history community. The event also offers a wide range of exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities, from table-top stands to larger shell scheme spaces, and tailored sponsorship packages.

For further details of Family Tree Live, visit: www.family-tree.co.uk/family-tree-live

(With thanks to Matthew Hill)

Chris 

Order Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland in the UK at https://bit.ly/4jJWSEh. Also available -Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. To purchase in the USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page.

The Really Useful Family History Show to visit Belfast in August

Discover your Roots at The Really Useful Family History Show
Europa Hotel, Belfast
10th August 2024 10am to 4pm.

Northern Ireland's first family history show in years is coming to Belfast, and everyone's invited!

This completely free event will feature 10 exhibitors ready to give advice about genealogy, research and DNA to beginners or more advanced family historians.

Visit in the morning and enter the free prize draw, with some fantastic prizes including DNA kits, society memberships, personal consultations with genealogy experts and more!

At 2pm there will be a presentation called “We know you are, Tim McGarry!” when we will be revealing to this much loved local comedian for the first time what DNA and research has uncovered about his ancestry.

The Really Useful Family History Show (https://www.fhf-reallyuseful.com/2024-live) is sponsored by the Family History Federation (https://www.familyhistoryfederation.com) and organised by the North of Ireland Family History Society (https://www.nifhs.org).

(With thanks to Linda Kilby)

Chris

Order Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors in the UK at https://bit.ly/BelfastAncestors. Also available - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, Sharing Your Family History Online, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed), and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records - to purchase, please visit https://bit.ly/ChrisPatonPSbooks. For purchase in tthe USA visit https://www.penandswordbooks.com. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, on Threads at @scottishgenesblog and via Mastodon at https://mastodon.scot/@ScottishGENES.

The Family History Show Online - Saturday 20th February 2021

From TheGenealogist (www.thegenealogist.co.uk):

The Family History Show, Online, run by Discover Your Ancestors and sponsored by TheGenealogist, is back on Saturday 20th February 2021. This online event builds on what were two previous successful online Family History Shows staged back in June and September last year. On both occasions many happy visitors logged on to enjoy a great day at the virtual event. And with ticket sales exceeding the previous events, the show organisers are expecting over 2,000 visitors at this show.

You can find more on the show at https://thefamilyhistoryshow.com/online/. Whilst there are no specific Scottish or Irish themed talks, several Scottish and Northern Irish family history societies are exhibiting which can assist with enquiries.

(With thanks to Nick Thorne)

Chris

Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Family History Federation's Really Useful Show returns in April 2021

The Family History Federation (www.familyhistoryfederation.com) has announced that its next Really Useful Family History Show will take place on Saturday 10th April 2021. 

No further details are available as yet, but you can bookmark the event's page at www.fhf-reallyuseful.com, where further details will be announced in the near future.

Chris

Pre-order my next book, Sharing Your Family History Online, at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

FHF's Really Useful Family History Show on Sat 14th Nov

The Family History Federation's Really Useful Family History Show (www.fhf-reallyuseful.com) takes place on Saturday 14th November. Tickets are just £7 and can be purchased at www.fhf-reallyuseful.com/events/fhf-really-useful-show/.

The following talks will be presented throughout the day:

Give your research the WDYTYA? Treatment (Sarah Williams)

Irish Catholic Church Records (Dr Jim Ryan)

Hidden in Plain Sight (Amelia Bennett)

Digitising the records in the Granite Mountain (Chris Norton)

Tracing Immigrant Ancestors up to World War II (Sue Gibbons FSG)

Relating a Name to a Place (Paul Carter)

Mixing DNA and the Paper Trail (Dr Penny Walters)

Beginning Family History Research (Steve Manning)

Making The Most of Your DNA Results – 10 Top Tips (Martin McDowell)

On the Right Track – Railway Ancestors (Ian Waller FSG)
My Ancestor was an Agricultural Labourer (Ian Waller FSG)

The FamilySearch Wiki (Whitney Peterson)

The Value of NLS Maps in Family History Research (Chris Fleet)

Beginning Scottish Research (Emma Maxwell)

Gentlemans’ Magazine as an Aid to Family Historians (Alan Ruston)

Trade & Occupation Sources (David Cufley)

Surnames in Genealogy (Darris Williams)

British Civilian POWS in World War One (Chris Paton)

An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy Sources and Resources (Jeanette Rosenberg OBE)

British Almshouses (Dr Judy Hill)

Mission creep (& why it matters) (Helen Tovey)

Techniques for Solving Scottish Genealogy Problems (Kirsty Wilkinson)

Tracing Welsh Family History (Beginner Level) (Eilir Ann Daniels)

Ideas for Researching Non-Conformist Ancestors (Jackie Depelle)
 

For more details on the speakers and their topics, please visit https://www.fhf-reallyuseful.com/speakers.  As noted I will be giving a talk about the British and British Empire originated civilian prisoners of war who were interned in Ruhleben race course near Berlin in the First World War - for more background to this, please read my recent post at http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2020/10/connecting-emotionally-with-past-events.html

 

Many exhibtors will also be in attendance, for details on these please visit https://www.fhf-reallyuseful.com/exhibitors/

There will also be an Ask the Experts advice service throughout the day, for details on this visit https://www.fhf-reallyuseful.com/speakers/

It should be a fun day, I'll hopefully see some of you there!

Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers course starts November 2nd - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, also available are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

 

The Family History Show Online - 26th September 2020

News of an online event coming soon down south:

The Family History Show, Online returns 26th September 2020

The Family History Show, Online, run by Discover Your Ancestors, returns on Saturday 26th September 2020 in place of the London Family History Show for this year. Building on the huge success of the first online Family History Show in June, where over a thousand attendees enjoyed a great day, the next one is on track to be even better!

Online access means that we are all able to safely enjoy many of the usual features of the physical show from wherever we are in the world, as well as making it possible for those that have disabilities to easily attend.

The Family History Show, Online will, mirroring the format of the very successful live shows, feature an online lecture theatre, the popular ‘Ask the expert’ area – where you can put questions forward to their specialists – as well as over 100 stalls where you can ask for advice as well as buy genealogical products.

Q&A Expert Session

Attendees are invited to submit questions via the website and a selection will be put forward to the panel in a multiuser Zoom session that is streamed on a linked video channel for the show.

Visit stalls and chat

To make this online experience as useful to family historians as attending the physical show would have been, you can “visit” a stall in the virtual exhibition hall. With over 100 present there will be a wide variety of societies and companies.

Built into the website is the ability to talk to some of the stallholders by text, audio or video from the comfort of your own home. With this facility, you can ask them for advice regarding their family history society or discuss their organisation and also purchase from their online stall various downloadable and physical products to help you with your research.

Lectures

In the virtual lecture theatre there will be the chance to watch new talks from the same expert lecturers who would have been at the physical event and are on the ‘Ask the Expert’ panel. These presentations will cover a wide variety of family history topics from DNA to how to find family information in military records. All of these videos are subtitled.

Feedback from the last Family History Show, Online:

“The Exhibitor Hall, with the video chat and Question Feed, and details and links to their products, etc. Your show is a very close, and in some ways better, reproduction of the live event, and I’m looking forward to attending next year’s event.” Scott Barker

“I know the actual shows are great, but for us not able to get there, these online days are ideal. I put aside time to listen and it felt like a 'day away' from the usual routine. Well done and thank you.” Ruth Owen

“I understand there must have been a lot of planning for the event under such tricky circumstances and it was absolutely superb in the end. Thank you very much for a really good day, your experts were helpful and I thoroughly enjoyed hearing their advice and information.” Sue Farley

Thank you so much for a great show. Learnt a lot and the experts were very interesting to listen to. Special thanks to Amelia Bennett. Looking forward to September. Keep safe” Irene Baldock

Tickets to attend the next online Family History Show on 26th September 2020 are available now for just £6.00 each (£8.00 on the day). All ticket holders will also receive a digital Goody Bag worth over £10 on the day.

To find out more about The Family History Show, Online and buy your ticket visit https://thefamilyhistoryshow.com/online/

(Via email)

Chris

My next 5 week Scottish Research Online course starts August 31st - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=102. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, also available are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

The Genealogy Show 2020 in Birmingham cancelled

The Genealogy Show (https://thegenealogyshow.uk), to be held in Birmingham on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2020, has been cancelled. The show will return to Birmingham on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th June 2021.

Click on the image below for the full announcement, which includes advice for those who have already purchased tickets.

(With thanks to @THEGenShow2020)

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

Family Tree Live has been cancelled

Another huge disappointment, but perhaps equally expected, is the cancellation today of Family Tree Live, (www.family-tree.co.uk/family-tree-live/), scheduled to take place in April:

Family Tree Live – Covid-19 cancellation announcement

It is with great regret that we announce the cancellation of Family Tree Live.

The show was due to have been held on 17 & 18 April 2020 at Alexandra Palace. Due to the current health implications concerning the Covid-19 pandemic, we have no choice but to put the well being of all concerned first, and cancel our two-day family history show.

We would like to thank sincerely the many people and organisations who have put considerable time and effort into organising the event and apologise for this disappointing but unavoidable news.

Notably we would like to thank our show partner, the Family History Federation, our show sponsors, FamilySearch and FamilyTreeDNA, our one-to-one expert advisors the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives, our lecturers and workshop tutors, our much-appreciated volunteers, our trade exhibitors and our supporting family history societies, and of course those who have bought tickets to attend the show.

We have explored potential dates later this year for a show but none are currently viable in the uncertain climate we are all facing at the moment.

We will be contacting all those mentioned above with further details regarding the cancellation as respects refunds or alternative options.

Family Tree does certainly look forward to organising further family history events in the future and we would be delighted to welcome you to them in healthier times to come. In the meantime, keep safe.

If you have any queries regarding Family Tree Live please contact…
Show organizer – Kathy McKenna KathyMcKenna@warnersgroup.co.uk
Family Tree Associate Publisher – Matthew Hill matthewh@warnersgroup.co.uk
Or Family Tree Editor – Helen Tovey helen.t@family-tree.co.uk

To keep abreast of future announcements, just register for our enewsletter.

 
(Source: https://www.family-tree.co.uk/family-tree-live/)

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.

RootsTech London 2020 postponed

From FamilySearch (www.familyseacrh.org):

RootsTech London Postponed to 2021

In consideration of COVID-19, FamilySearch International announced today that the RootsTech conference planned for London 5–7 November 2020, will be postponed until the fall of 2021.

The health and safety of all RootsTech London attendees, exhibitors, and speakers is the highest priority of FamilySearch International.

Those who have already registered for the event will be issued refunds.

To receive announcements and other updates regarding RootsTech London, please visit rootstech.org/london.

RootsTech in Salt Lake City is still scheduled for 3–6 February 2021.

Chris

You can pre-order my new book, Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 (out April). Also available, Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.