THE Genealogy Show

Friday dawned cool and cloudy and after breakfast Jennie Fairs, Sylvia Valentine and I wandered over to the NEC, Birmingham. A small crowd was there so we joined the queue. It was lovely to chat with those waiting and people were surprised that we had come so far.

As my first talk was at 11.30, I caught up with friends, collected hugs and ribbons and gave out the gifts.  They were tea cosies and scarfs.

Nathan Dylan Goodwin, talking on how he writes his Morton Farrier, series. Very interesting and useful.

Alison Spring, was my next talk on Finding Scottish Ancestors, before 1855.  As this was my time period,  I found it helpful and it also re-enforced that I was on the right track.

Lisa Louise Cooke, gave a fabulous talk on Time Travel with Google Earth. I had missed her speak at Congress 2018, so was thrilled to hear this talk.

During the talks, it sounded like there was a large number of people talking. No it was very heavy rain and Jennie and I caught a taxi back to the hotel.

Dinner with about 20 other genealogists finished of a great day.

Saturday and it was still raining, so we took the shuttle bus to the station and walked through to the NEC, didn't get to damp.

If anything there was more socialising, than Friday and it was wonderful.

I heard Michelle Leonard speak on How to make the most of your Autosomal DNA Test.

She explained a few things, that I didn't know.

Audrey Collins, from The National Archives, (UK), gave a fantastic talk on Finding Birth, Death and Marriage Information, in the National Archives. This was something I hadn't considered and found very useful.

Kirsty Gray and her team did an amazing job in 15 months to get a show of this size, with respected speakers and exhibitors, up and running and have it run so smoothly, was a credit to them all.

I'm going to do a post of just photos, so you can look at it, or not.