Courses in Family History
The Basic Course
This is a 5 week course of 2.5 hours each session.
Week 1 Starting points, Family sources, Family trees and charts and record keeping.
Week 2 Using the GRO, Births, marriages and death certificate workshop, Using free BMD, Yorkshire BMD and UKBMD.
Week 3 The census, using 'Ancestry' and 'Find my Past'
Week 4 Parish Registers, Family Search and Free Reg..
Week 5 Parish Registers continued and other genealogy sites.
The cost will be £30.00 per course to be paid before the start of the course, either through our shop or by coming in to the centre..
There will be a break for refreshments half way through each session
Please contact the centre if you want to enrol on this course or go to our website shop and book a place.
The Intermediate Course
This is a 5 week course of 2.5 hours each session.
Week 1 Wills, M.I.s and Cemetery records
Week 2 Military Records.
Week 3 Local History :- Books, Photos, Social Aspects & Maps. How they lived - their day to day lives.
Week 4 Early Records :- Pre 1800's Manor Records & Early Taxes.
Week 5 Taking it further:- Newspapers, British and overseas records plus Immigration.
The cost is £30.00 per course which should be paid before the start of the course, either through our online shop or by coming in to the centre.
There will be a break for refreshments half way through each session
Local History Talks
We are starting these again on the last Wednesday morning of each month. £3.00 entrance.
Please see the Talks page, for dates and subjects of future talks.
Each term we run a Basic and an Intermediate Family History course, each session lasting two and a half hours and held over 5 weeks during school term times. Each course costs £30.00 per 5 week course to be paid before the course starts and payment can be made online through the Carnegie Heritage Centre shop or by calling into the centre on Tuesday or Friday. You will need to register with the centre if you are interested in either of these courses. The course runs on Monday mornings, 10am to 12.30pm and our next beginners starts on Monday 8th January 2024. Unfortunately, we did not have enough people to run the Intermediate course this November but will put one on next February following the January course
You can enrol on either of these courses by visiting our web site shop and buying a ticket to book a place. If you have problems please contact Liz at the centre on Tuesdays or Fridays for more information. We do like people to pay before the course starts.
EYFHS hold a help desk on a Monday afternoon for anyone needing help with their Family History.
The Carnegie volunteers are on hand every Tuesday and Friday, from 10am to 3 pm, to give you help and advice if you are stuck at any point.
EYFHS Monumental Inscription booklets are available to buy at various prices.
Just a small part of our resources
Resources at Carnegie Heritage Centre
To help people with research we have a wide range of useful and relevant resources at the centre:
Books
We have shelves of books on Local History for visitors to read whilst they are in the centre.
Maps
Our map drawers and new map cabinet contain a variety of Hull maps, both street and Ordnance Survey types.
Box Files
Our collection of box files contains information on the buildings and streets of Hull, as well as the people of Hull. Articles and photographs have been collected over many years, initially by Chris Ketchell and later by volunteers, maintaining this unique collection. We now have over 400 box files on various topics of local interest.
Street Directories
We have various street directories ranging from 1784 to 1967, including Kelly's, Whites and others.
Photographs and Postcards
Carnegie Heritage Centre has a large collection of photographs of old Hull which have been digitised and put onto computers. We also have a selection of postcards from the Local History Archives Unit Collection, for sale at 50p each.
Donations of books, memorabilia, photos or money are always welcome.
