The 大象传媒 wants to inspire and help people to find out more about their
family's past and to think about how they are personally connected to
the great themes of Britain's history.
大象传媒 Learning is providing easy to use resources and lots of events to
inspire and help people begin their quest.
There is a new simple 大象传媒 guide to researching family history, providing
starting points for everyone.
It will be distributed free via the Who Do You Think You Are? helpline
and is available in libraries and at all events linked to Who Do You Think
You Are?
大象传媒 Learning is also giving away a booklet, Family History, The Basics
and Beyond, produced with The National Archives, which will only be available
at family history events.
On 4 and 5 December, the 大象传媒 is holding the first ever national family
history weekend, hosted and broadcast live by all 大象传媒 Local Radio stations
in England and in the Nations.
The 大象传媒 is also working in partnership with The National Archives and
Archive Awareness Campaign (AAC) to welcome new people into archives.
This autumn there are over 300 family history events held in archives
all over the UK.
The Archive Awareness Campaign aims to raise awareness of the 2,000 archives
throughout the UK and encourage people to use them.
The public will be able to discover how archives can be used for family
history and learn exciting new skills like how to take care of family
photographs and read old handwriting.
To find an event near you or to find out more about Archive Awareness
Campaign visit www.archiveawareness.com.
AAC is led by the National Council on Archives, The National Archives
and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
The National Archives - www.nationalarchives.gov.uk - in Kew, London,
has one of the largest archival collections in the world, spanning 1,000
years of British history.
It offers the public free access to vast collections of family history
sources including military service records, ships' passenger lists, slave
registers and tax records.
The Family Records Centre, in Islington, holds census information from
1841, wills and birth, death and marriage certificates.
The research rooms at The National Archives and at the Family Records
Centre are open to the public Monday to Saturday.
Events listings can be found via bbc.co.uk/familyhistory and from the
helpline.
There is a dedicated Who Do You Think You Are? telephone helpline: 08700
100 150.
Lines are open from 7.30am until midnight every day until 17 December
with calls charged at the national rate.
Callers can request free leaflets, get detailed information on 大象传媒 Local
Radio events and local archive events and find out about the 大象传媒 People's
War project - an online archive of World War Two stories.
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