News

The Future Of North Somerset Museum

  • You may have heard about North Somerset Council's proposal to close and sell the North Somerset Museum, in Burlington Street, Weston super mare, that is, all of the buildings including Clara’ s cottage - and to replace it with a 'Visitor Attraction' on the seafront and a touring exhibition.
  • The proposal also states that the artefacts will first be 'rationalised' and put into a new storage facility.
You are warmly welcome to hear more at a PUBLIC MEETING
THE FUTURE OF OUR NORTH SOMERSET MUSEUM

at the Blakehay, Wadham Street
Weston-super-Mare
Somerset
BS23 1JZ
(near Grove Park car park).
Saturday March 6th 2010 at 10.30 am.
Everybody welcome, please come and support the museum.

News Flash! The Somerset Heritage Centre

The new Somerset Heritage Centre is expected to be ready by September 2010. To find out more information about visiting the record office in Taunton during the next few months see the website at: http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/

News Flash! Milton Road Cemetery, Weston Super Mare

Milton Road CemeteryThanks to the hard work and time given generously by Stan Baker and other members of the society we are now able to offer for sale a fully searchable CD of the Memorial Transcriptions for the Milton Road Cemetery. This CD costs £15.00 plus postage and is available on our publications page. In total there are some 62,522 names: 17,067 plots and 17,383 memorial inscriptions. The CD also includes data originally transcribed by Brian Austin.'

Family History Monthly

Family History Monthly is now available to buy from the Society. It can be obtained at meetings and if bought from us will help our funds

Ancestry Access

Ancestry.co.uk library edition is now available on all North Somerset Library Plus computers. When you log on to one of the libraries computers, go straight to the North Somerset Libraries home page at www.n-somerset.gov.uk/libraries. When there, click on ‘Information services’ and then ‘online services’. The last step is to click on to Ancestry - Library Edition. Now you can access records for UK and Ireland, USA, Europe and more. All you need is a North Somerset Library card and pin, but remember that you are allowed a one hour session per day in most libraries. Two hour sessions are available at the Campus library and Yatton library.
As well as Ancestry, you can access: Clear as mud, cyberlibrary, Dictionary of National Biography, Encyclopedia Britannica, Enquire, i-point, LibrariesWest, Local information, Newspapers online, Oxford Art Online, Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Music Online, Oxford Reference Books Online, Times Digital Archive, Who's Who and Who Was Who.