Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society

Cardiff Branch of the Glamorgan Family History Society. Providing opportunities to learn, share family history research and stories.

[Llanrumney Hall @LlanrumneyHall]

As the new year begins, our Historic House Tours at Llanrumney Hall are starting again 🏛
Daytime, evening & weekend tours available.
Book here: https://t.co/JfFTt2ZqQ1

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

The next meeting of the Cardiff & Vale branch is in person at @GlamArchives on Tuesday 5th November at 2pm - the focus of this session will be on wartime records.

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Our next online branch meeting is on Thursday 7th November at 7pm - @JenniPh will be presenting an introduction to newspaper research for family history. All welcome, register for free via Eventbrite: https://t.co/bwthCuMqVu

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Our branch AGM is online on Tuesday 8th October at 7pm for members only. This will be followed at 7.30pm by a talk from qualified genealogist Trisha O'Reilly about solicitor records. Everyone welcome, free of charge - sign up in advance via Eventbrite: https://t.co/kIC1XCb9yS

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

@GlamArchives @rhysh9 Hi Rhys. You can find out more about Glamorgan FHS on our website: https://t.co/bk8Sdq13x2 - you'd be very welcome to join us for a meeting in person or online. There are also some useful tutorials for beginners here: https://t.co/Ca89cN607O

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Whether your ancestors lived in Glamorgan or elsewhere, our volunteers will be available to help with your family history questions next Saturday (28 September) at Glamorgan Archives #OpenDoors. Free talks at 11am and 1.30pm.

[Glamorgan Archives @GlamArchives]

#OpenDoors at Glamorgan Archives - Saturday 28 September

Our tours behind the scenes are now fully booked! But you can still drop in to meet members of Glamorgan Family History Society and join one of their short talks.

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

We'll be at @GlamArchives #OpenDoors on Saturday 28 September to answer your family history queries and to share how joining the Society can help with your research. We're also offering two free talks - at 10am and 1.30pm. Looking forward to seeing some of our followers there!

[Glamorgan Archives @GlamArchives]

#OpenDoors at Glamorgan Archives - Saturday 28 September

Take a tour behind the scenes and find out how an archive building works and what it does

Drop in to meet members of Glamorgan Family History Society and join one of their short talks

Contact us to book your FREE place

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Thanks to @GlamArchives for hosting us this week. Lots of our members have ancestors who were seafarers and dock workers, so maritime records was a great topic to cover. One attendee told us afterwards that the meeting was "brilliant ... I have so many new records to search"

[Glamorgan Archives @GlamArchives]

Great to welcome back members of @Cardiff_GFHS for their first meeting following the summer break.

Our topic today, appropriately for Merchant Navy Day, was maritime records, including this photo of Cardiff East Dock in 1883, from the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce collection.

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

If you are visiting the National Eisteddfod in Pontypridd next week, come and say 'Helo'. We are there all week: stand 504. / Os dych chi'n ymweld yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Pontypridd wythnos nesaf dewch i ddweud 'Helo': stondin 504.
3-10 August/Awst 2024, 10:00-16:00

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

@GenealCymru @FamilyHistPod Thanks Dai, both talks sound excellent, we'll let them know!

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

@GenealCymru @FamilyHistPod Hi Dai - most of our branch events are held in person (except the AGM), but we can pass your details on to our online branch as a potential speaker ... is it your first-name study talk that would be of particular interest for Welsh genealogy?

[The Family Histories Podcast @FamilyHistPod]

ICYMI: “The Poet” with Dai Davies (@GenealCymru) tells of a Welsh poet whose politics were deemed controversial, and we’re looking for a David Thomas pre-1757.

https://t.co/1JAZiZVxxf #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #podcast #cymru

[Glamorgan Archives @GlamArchives]

It was great to welcome back members of @Cardiff_GFHS this afternoon to explore new acquisitions received by us this year

Including this plan of the organ to be installed at Hermon Baptist Chapel #OgmoreVale in 1914

The item was deposited by Ogmore Valley Local History Society

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

The next meeting of our online branch is on Thursday 23 May at 7pm - Welsh genealogy expert @Darris will be giving a talk about Welsh immigrants to the USA after 1790. Free to attend, everyone welcome. https://t.co/0wsjpfYvEy

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Thank you @martinjohnes for giving a talk to Glamorgan FHS Cardiff branch recently about the Welsh Not and use of the Welsh language in Victorian schools. Our members really appreciated an evidence-based analysis of attitudes to C19 Welsh language use in an educational setting.

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Some interesting talks, including several with a distinctly Welsh focus, at the @GuildOneName conference in Newport last weekend. Speakers included Glamorgan FHS members @JenniPh and Diane Brook. Free to view for another week or so, then available to GOONS members only.

[GuildOneNameStudies 🌳 @GuildOneName]

The recordings of the talks from our conference are now available on our website along with the handouts. They will be open to the public for the next two weeks before going behind the paywall. https://t.co/slZR0RvIVS #GuildConf2024

[TigerBay & the World @TigerBayWorld]

📢FREE EVENT!
⏰Monday 29th April, 11am-1
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@SeneddWales Pierhead Building

✅ Photo ID workshop
✅ Oral History Recording
✅ News on exciting volunteering opportunities
✅Learn about Tiger Bay & Welsh Heritage

If you are interested in the History of Tiger Bay & Wales, join us!

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Our next Cardiff branch meeting is on Tuesday 7th May, Cathays Cemetery Chapel, 7pm (doors open 6.45pm). We are looking forward to @martinjohnes giving a talk on 'Welsh Not - the place and treatment of the Welsh language in Victorian schools'. Everyone welcome, free entry.

[Cardiff Branch, Glamorgan Family History Society @Cardiff_GFHS]

Thank you @GlamArchives for hosting us today, and for sharing your records and expertise with us. We are looking forward to seeing what our members can discover from researching the houses, land and property that feature in their ancestry.

[Glamorgan Archives @GlamArchives]

It was great to welcome members of @Cardiff_GFHS back to the Archives this afternoon to explore records relating to house, land and property history.

Including this drawing from the Mid Glamorgan Chapel Survey of Soar Welsh Baptist Chapel, #Penygraig.

[Glamorgan Archives @GlamArchives]

A Research Guide to Sources for the Study of Minority Ethnic History

We’re very excited to share our new research guide, produced with support from the Anti-Racist Wales Culture Heritage and Sport Fund.

It’s available as a free download from our website https://t.co/s2lR8VQvjr