Viva Brighton Issue #58 December 2017

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Cover Story 2 0 1 7 The Regency Town House Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd <strong>December</strong>, 10am until 5pm. Sponsored by Spectrum and The Regency Town House.
LOWDOWN ON... ........................................... Family History The truth is out there Are you thinking about delving into your family history? The ideal way to start this, I’m told by Mick Henry, chair of the Sussex Family History Group, is to ask older relatives about the past. If they are happy to talk about it, you might encourage reminiscences about their lives, the relationships between family members (this might not be unbiased information of course!) and who is who in photos. Plus talking about objects can be interesting. A clock, war medals, a notebook with family recipes in it. After my grandfather died, I discovered he’d kept a notebook with a record (weight and value) of every vegetable he ever grew on his allotment, so he knew how much money he’d saved. There was also a stash of ‘Chaplin Green’ paint he used for everything, that seems to have been acquired when he was in the Home Guard, but perhaps the less said about that the better. Discovering your own family narrative can be a wonderful, rewarding activity, and you can pass what you discover on to future generations. But, from my own experiences, families are often complicated, and what we’ve been told isn’t always the whole picture. Marriage and birth certificates occasionally have dates and details altered to cover pre-marital births, for example, or the true name of a baby’s father. When we’re finding information from an era when unmarried mothers were outcasts and reliable contraception all but non-existent, we need to remember that a significant number of babies, especially illegitimate ones, were given away. Some were handed over to childless couples, or another family member. Some were abandoned. There are many poignant stories of foundlings. And even if the names and dates we find are correct, they don’t tell you everything. They can provide evidence of why things might have happened… but be alert for buried secrets and potential emotional hand grenades. Because when you know something, you can’t un-know it. And you may discover that not everyone will want to learn ‘the truth’. Those caveats notwithstanding, <strong>Brighton</strong> has two superb resources to help with family history searches. The Keep, near Falmer, houses a worldclass archive, and offers regular interesting talks and surgeries. Also based there is the Sussex Family History Group, a charity founded in 1972. It has its own library at The Keep, run by around 20 volunteers who help people with family history. It offers members (£15 per year) access to the Sussex marriage index from 1550-1837, and it has nearly finished transcribing baptisms and burials from East and West Sussex for the same period. It also holds many Sussex wills. Many of its records are now digitalised or indexed. Emma Chaplin The Keep, open Tues-Sat. For information about surgeries, talks and services, see thekeep.info The Sussex Family History Group (which is looking for new volunteers) is usually available to consult Tues-Fri, 10am-4pm. sfhg.org.uk Photo by Lizzie Lower ....85....
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