– Important note for paid QFHS members – do we have your latest email?
– Have you seen all the videos and playlists on our You Tube channel? QFHS You Tube videos and playlists
Hold the Date QFHS 2025 AGM Wednesday, 18 June
7:00 pm (UK Time) via Zoom
Following talk by Guest Speaker Nick Barratt “AI and Family History”
Next Zoom Meetings
22 January 2025, 7pm (UK time) “The material culture of Wills” – talk by Dr.Emily Vine from the University of Exeter about their project to transcribe 25,000 wills anddevelop an accurate transcribing software. (See Note below for
Zoom link information)
Saturday, 25 January 2025 Visit QFHS at the East Surrey FHS Fair
QFHS will be one of 26 genealogical and historical societies present.
The event is Free, but you must register at https://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/index.php/fair
Future ZOOM Talks
19 February 2025: Meeting with Libby Adams,
Head of Library and Archives for the Library of the Religious Society of Friends, and staff, to learn
about future plans and projects at the Library. (see page 2 of Members QFHS Memo emailed to Members January 2025 for more information.)
12 March 2025: “Maps,” talk by Laragh Quinney, Maps Reading Room Manager for the National Library of Scotland.
16 April 2025: “Transcribing and Submitting Quaker Wills” presented by members of the
QFHS’s Quaker Wills Project to inform and assist anyone wishing to submit wills to the project.
21 May 2025: “Sidcot School”, talk by Rachele Snowden, Development & Alumni Officer at Sidcot about the school archives..
NOTE: All talks will be at 7:00 pm (UK Time).
Contact chair@qfhs.co.uk for the link at least one full day ahead of the talk. Talks by outside speakers
(non-QFHS) are available only to QFHS members.
Recordings of the presentations, depending on the speaker, may also be temporarily available on the
website for viewing by QFHS members