Our Annual General Meeting is this Sunday, 31 May, at
2.30pm in the Corn Exchange in Melrose, (Map) however, as is usual, we'll have a talk
too.
This Sunday's talk is by Marjorie
Gavin.
She's held a number of roles in the Society over the years, including
Chairman and Magazine Editor.
She has contributed to lots of publications and
has extracted notices of births, marriages and deaths, both home and abroad,
from several local papers over the years, often adding bits of extra
information like details of other family members or biographical notes, and
these appeared in lots of our magazines from about 1997 onwards.
Her talk is titled ‘Hatches, Matches and Dispatches’ and perhaps to counteract the formality
of the Annual General Meeting, she says it’s a light-hearted and
somewhat irreverent look at births, marriages and deaths from 1700 to 1900.
I’m sure you'll find this a very interesting talk.
Doors open at 2pm; the AGM begins at
2.30pm and the talk after the AGM, perhaps about 2.45pm.
We'll have a range of
family history publications available to buy, and there’ll be light
refreshments (donation expected) available after the talk.
If you have a
problem with your family history, please discuss it (no charge) with one of our
volunteers.
This is the last talk before the summer; the subsequent talk (the
first one of the 2015/2016 syllabus) will be on 27th September.
