Dates for your diary!

There are a few events coming up which I will be attending with information about the St James Memorial Project:

Saturday 7th September 10am-12noon St James Church, Upper Parliament Street.

St James is taking part in the Liverpool Open Heritage Month. Come along for the chance to look around this historic building (click here to go to my page about the history of the church) There will also be talks about:

• The architecture of the Church
• Discovering our history in the archive
• Restoring the stolen WW1 war memorial (Me!)
• Using the building for the community


Also,

Sat 28th September 10am - 4pm
King’s Regiment  Family History Day in the Museum of Liverpool 

I have a stand at the Family History Day where I will be displaying information about the St James Memorial Project and will have a database of the information I have researched. I will also be giving a talk about the project and how I have gone about researching these men.


Hope to see you there!

Liverpool Hall of Remembrance

An exciting development today... even though I am about a million miles from getting all this research completed and posted I thought I'd take the huge step of contacting Liverpool Council about getting the names on the Roll of Honour. I've got 25 men who are not on the list for whom I can prove their scouseness! I was surprised that the dates for living in Liverpool are confined to the war period though and that does make it a bit harder to prove but fortunately Ancestry have the Soldiers Died in the Great War entries and they usually have place of birth and/or place of residence.

So, I'm waiting to hear back about what they need from me. It's quite exciting. When I get a definite yes for whether there is a ceremony etc I will try and contact a few of the families that I've been researching.

There is also apparently a family history of the KLR type thingy on at the museum this weekend - I would love to go but if Chloe and Amy are sick I don't really see how it could work.  Will have to scratch my head over that one a bit, maybe I would actually be better going on a weekday when there are less visitors... or could I benefit from the expertise of people from the forums etc in person????