News
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Gwent Family History Society AGM
This is being held on Saturday 15th October at the Church of Latter Day Saints, Factory Road, Newport. NP20 5XX with business commencing at 10.30hrs. Plenty of free parking in […]
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Newport Branch Meeting, 2022 September 27
Newport Branch Meeting, 2022 September 27th John Briggs: Building of the American Camp at Malpas, Newport The American 332nd Engineer General Services Regiment was sent to Britain to start building […]
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Welsh History Course – Wales and the Wars of the Roses
We have been contacted by a tutor from Aberystwyth University’s Lifelong Learning Department. The Department is running a course called “Wales and the Wars of the Roses” online. The distant […]
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Newport Branch: Tuesday, August 30
NEWPORT BRANCH, 2022 August 30 The Sinking of the ‘City of Benares’ – Monty Dart Our speaker this month was one of our most regular, Monty Dart. She maintained her […]
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Newport Branch Meeting: Tuesday, June 28th
My DNA Results (An Update) by Richard Lockett Richard Lockett, one of our members, gave an update to his previous talk “We Don’t Always Know Who We Think We Are’, […]
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Newport Branch, May 31st
Angus McBean by Will Cross. This month we welcomed the return of a regular speaker in Will Cross. His subject was Angus McBean, an extremely talented photographer who was born […]
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New content – Tables for Searching – Risca mining victims
Thank you to Stephen Lyons, who has provided the Society with a list of deaths at mines within the Risca area. Information is provided on 431 deaths between 1842 and […]
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Historic journals
Over the last few months, a Project Team consisting of the Webmaster, Dorothy Lewis and Emma Gudgeon, have been scanning and uploading historic journals that have not previously been available […]
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Dr Nick Barratt – The Mists of Time
Alongside our EGM, which took place on 10 May 2022, we were pleased to welcome Dr Nick Barratt to speak to Members of the Society. The talk covered going back […]
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Chepstow & Wye Valley Branch May Meeting
The next meeting of the Chepstow and Wye Valley branch of the Gwent Family History Society will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 12th May 2022 in the Wesley Rooms […]