- What do you know about your ancestors’ weddings?
- Have you found newspaper descriptions of the guests and gifts?
- Where do you look for marriage records?
Join Margaret Roberts in our virtual common room to discuss hints and tips for finding parish registers to save the cost of a GRO certificate and how to glean every last scrap of information from the document once located.
So grab a sandwich or a cuppa and sit down with us. Our lunchtime chats are friendly and relaxed.
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About the Speaker
Margaret Roberts
Margaret Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Historial Society, the Chair of the Family History Society of Cheshire and a Trustee of the Family History Federation, Devon FHS and the British Society of Sports History. A highly experienced genealogist and archivist who works with families at home and abroad to help uncover their sporting pasts. She is the editor of the online magazine Playing Past and give talks on sporting biographies both online and in person. Margaret has been involved in researching Victorian and Edwardian lives for many years and has co-authored Victorian Swimming Communities (Palgrave, 2019), ‘From Butlins to Europe: Fodens Ladies in the 1960s and 1970s’ in Sport in History (2019), and (2021) Swimming beyond the Metropolis: The Kent Street Baths in Victorian Birmingham in Midland History (2021). Her uncovering of previously hidden aspects of the lives of the Beckwith swimming family led to significant revisions in their ODNB entry. Margaret can be contacted by email at mailto:researchdogsbody@gmail.com
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09/06/2026
12:30 - 14:00
Online
90 minute social. Not recorded.
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