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Family research at a local level Dave i^ogQrs
The launch of a web site featuring the 1901 census in early Janua ry was so successful that it promptly a te' akd ZJeea ca€o
crashed from the demand.
But you don't have to go was a tremendous help to
on to the web if you live in " people searching out family Interior and exterior',
Wiltshire because all the 1901 roots. "It is proving a popu- decorating carried out to
census information is avail- lar resource to regular and a high standard including:
able on microfiche at Swin- l new researchers and saves • Pointing - Wallpapering
don reference library in the trips to other record offices." • Coving - Tiling
town centre. She added that with so • General Maintenance
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General Register Office in- it's easy to be put off. "We - Gardening
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is a goldmine for the family able help and advice."
history research beginner, as Use of the microfiche
well as the experienced in- records is free but advance There are some
vestigator. booking of the reading ma-
Librarian Frances Ham- Frances Hainbidge, with afew of the books available chine is advisable. Call the great resources
bidge said the introduction at the reference library in Regents Circus reference library on 463240.
of the microfiche equipment • Richard Moore of the Swin- on the Internet.
don branch of the Wiltshire Fam-
ily History Society described the But do you know
From the peoplelink pages activities of the group in the Janu-
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