Deal

In-Laws at War

Deal - speaker Dr Peter Rudd

Tuesday 11th August 2026

7:30pm

Researching Police Ancestors

Deal - speaker Dr Anne Logan

Tuesday 14th July 2026

7:30pm

The Lying Bastards: exploring the impact of illegitimacy on family history research

Deal - speaker Dave Annal

Tuesday 9th June 2026

7:30pm

The Delargeys: a Deal mining family

Deal - speaker Lesley Smith

Tuesday 12th May 2026

7:30pm

Who was Mrs Allen?’

Deal - speaker Jenny Wall

Tuesday 14th April 2026

7:30pm

‘til death us do part – or maybe not!

Deal - speakers Sharon Morris & Suzanne Green

Tuesday 10th March 2026

7:30pm

A family at War

Deal - speaker Dr Peter Rudd

Tuesday 10th February 2026

7:30pm

Members' short talks

Deal - Meeting

Tuesday 9th December 2025

7:30pm

Kent Mental Deficiency Institutions in World War 2.

Deal - speaker Kara Greig

Tuesday 11th November 2025

7:30pm

A School in Wartime

Deal - speaker Mary Smith

Tuesday 14th October 2025

7:30pm

Domesday to Suffragettes

Deal - speaker Suzanne Green

Tuesday 9th September 2025

7:30pm

Joining the sisters and brothers: inmates of the late medieval hospitals in East Kent - REPORT

Deal - speaker Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh

Tuesday 12th August 2025

7:30pm

Invicta Coal - with special reference to the Deal Coalfield

Deal - speaker Jim Davies

Tuesday 8th July 2025

7:30pm

Parish Registers - Problems, Pitfalls and Perplexities

Deal - speaker Peter Ewart

Tuesday 10th June 2025

7:30pm

A Forest of flags: Deal & the 1881 election scandal

Deal - speaker Pat Wilson

Tuesday 13th May 2025

7:30pm

Establishing the General Register Office

Deal's Silver Anniversary Lecture - speaker Lady Teviot

Tuesday 8th April 2025

7:30pm

Inspiring Kent & Kentish women: some (extra)ordinary tales.

Deal - speaker Dr Anne Logan

Tuesday 11th March 2025

7:30pm

Who knows where life will take you? - REPORT

Deal - speaker Linda Chapman

Tuesday 11th February 2025

7:30pm

Members Evening:

Deal - Members

Tuesday 10th December 2024

7:00pm

Kent to Kefalonia

Deal - speaker LucyAnne Curling

Tuesday 12th November 2024

7:00pm

Charles Robinson, Recorder of Deal - Report

Deal - speaker Sheila Harris

Tuesday 8th October 2024

7:00pm

Suffragettes of Kent

Deal - speaker Jenny Godfrey

Tuesday 10th September 2024

7:00pm

Strategies of inheritance, among fishing communities in later Medieval Kent.- REPORT

Deal branch - Speaker Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh

Tuesday 13th August 2024

7:00pm

Vaccinations in the 19th century - REPORT

Deal branch - Speaker Lady Teviot

Tuesday 9th July 2024

7:00pm

Elizabeth, by any other name! - REPORT

Deal - speaker Viv Carter

Tuesday 11th June 2024

7:00pm

Outside the Law - Outlaws, Poachers, Highwaymen and Smugglers'.

Deal - speaker Dr Geoff Doel

Tuesday 14th May 2024

7:00pm

Branch AGM followed by 'Sandwich Then & Now' - REPORT

Deal - speaker Nick Smith

Tuesday 9th April 2024

7:00pm

The influence of Religion on Women in Mental-Deficiency Institutions in Kent in the 1920s and 1930s - REPORT

Deal branch - Speaker Kara Grieg

Tuesday 12th March 2024

7:00pm

A Commander lived in my house. - REPORT

Deal branch - Speaker Jenny Noake

Tuesday 12th December 2023

7:00pm

The 18th century Poor Law Settlement system in Kent

Deal - speaker Dr David Shaw

Tuesday 10th October 2023

7:00pm

Thanet to Tasmania part 2 - REPORT

Deal - speaker LucyAnn Curling

Tuesday 12th September 2023

7:00pm

Institute of Heraldic & Genealogical Studies - REPORT

Deal - speaker Dr David Wright

Tuesday 8th August 2023

7:00pm

Wives, widows, sisters and daughters - REPORT

Deal - speaker Viv Carter

Tuesday 11th July 2023

7:00pm

The Nonconformist revolution

Deal - speaker Amanda J Thomas

Tuesday 13th June 2023

7:00pm

The story of my Ancestor at Trafalgar - REPORT

Deal - speaker Jennifer Van Lens

Tuesday 9th May 2023

7:45pm

The Coal Black Sea - REPORT

Deal - speaker Stuart Heaver

Tuesday 11th April 2023

7:45pm

George Cottew, Mayor of Deal and his family - REPORT

Deal - speaker Sheila Harris

Tuesday 14th March 2023

7:45pm

Curling Wisps & Whispers of History - letters from my ancestors - REPORT

Deal - speaker LucyAnn Curling

Tuesday 14th February 2023

7:45pm

Member’s Brick walls

Deal - Christmas meeting

Tuesday 13th December 2022

7:45pm

Three wars one soldier: The life and times of Joe Shepherd - Report

Deal branch - speaker Dr Andrew Richardson

Tuesday 8th November 2022

7:45pm

Invicta Coal, the story of the Kent coalfields.- Report

Deal branch - speaker Jim Davis

Tuesday 11th October 2022

7:45pm

Keeping up appearances. Henry Fothergill and Victorian Society - Report

Deal - speaker Viv Carter

Tuesday 13th September 2022

7:45pm

Smuggling on the Kent Coast - Report

Deal - speaker George Chittenden

Tuesday 9th August 2022

7:45pm

My Ancestor was a liar! - REPORT

Deal - speaker Dave Annal

Tuesday 12th July 2022

7:45pm

Under used sources for genealogical research - REPORT

Deal - speaker Lady Teviot

Tuesday 14th June 2022

7:30pm

A Schoolgirls War, Maidstone Girls Grammar in WWII - REPORT

Deal - speaker Mary Smith

Tuesday 10th May 2022

7:30pm

My Deal boatmen database - REPORT

Deal - speaker David Walsh

Tuesday 12th April 2022

7:30pm

Skeletons in the Cupboard - Report

Deal - speaker Peter Ewart

Tuesday 8th March 2022

7:30pm

A Kent Christmas - Report

Deal - branch meeting

Tuesday 14th December 2021

8:00pm

Research help at Deal

Deal - Help desk

Saturday 20th November 2021

10:00am

Francis Dehane, Mayor of Deal 1753 - REPORT

Deal - speaker Sheila Harris

Tuesday 9th November 2021

7:30pm

Elizabeth Barton, Maid of Kent 1506-1534 - REPORT

Deal - speaker Melanie Gibson - Barton

Tuesday 12th October 2021

7:30pm

The Brave, The Tragic & The Downright Scandalous! - REPORT

Deal - speakers Suzzanne Green & Sharon Morris

Tuesday 14th September 2021

7:30pm

I never thought of that! - REPORT

Deal - speaker Lady Teviot

Tuesday 10th August 2021

7:30pm

My ancestor was a liar! - REPORT

Deal Virtual - speaker Dave Annal

Tuesday 13th July 2021

8:00pm

Parish Registers: problems, pitfalls and perplexities - REPORT

Deal - speaker Peter Ewart

Tuesday 10th March 2020

7:30pm

24 archives later... following the trail left by my ancestors- REPORT

Deal - speaker LucyAnne Curling

Tuesday 11th February 2020

Members Christmas Evening

Deal - Social

Tuesday 10th December 2019

7:30pm

Personal experience and the Great War 1914 - 18 - REPORT

Deal - speaker Michael Lucas

Tuesday 12th November 2019

7:30pm

Hayward Boat Builders Exhibition

Deal - Exhibition

Saturday 2nd November 2019 - Friday 29th November 2019

9:00am

Tracing a 16th and 17th Century Family Tree - REPORT

Deal - speaker Celia Heritage

Tuesday 8th October 2019

7:30pm

Mayors of Deal - Exhibition

Deal - Heritage Open Days

Saturday 21st September 2019

10:00am

Hospitals, their records and how to find them - REPORT

Deal - speaker Lady Teviot

Tuesday 10th September 2019

7:30pm

Land tax Assessments - REPORT

Deal - speaker Eric Probert

Tuesday 13th August 2019

7:30pm

Brick walls and Lost Ancestors - REPORT

Deal - speaker Dave Annal

Tuesday 9th July 2019

7:30pm

A Saurian in Margate - REPORT

Deal - speaker Pat Smith

Tuesday 11th June 2019

7:30pm

North Deal, Walmer and Kingsdown lifeboats and their crews - REPORT

Deal - speaker Colin Varrall

Tuesday 14th May 2019

7:30pm

A Case of Mistaken Identity? - REPORT

Deal - speaker Viv Carter

Tuesday 9th April 2019

7:30pm

Outsiders: Outlaws, Poachers, Smugglers & Highwaymen - REPORT

Deal - speaker Geoff Doel

Tuesday 12th March 2019

7:30pm

A Thousand Years History of a Polish Family - REPORT

Deal - Cllr. Nick Tomaszewsk,

Tuesday 12th February 2019

7:30pm

Members' Evening - Stories on a theme

Tuesday 11th December 2018

7:30pm

REPORT: Ranking Nowhere

Tuesday 13th November 2018

7:30pm

REPORT: Armistice +100 at Dover Castle

Sunday 11th November 2018

REPORT: From the Slums of Portsea Island to the coalfields of Kansas. REPORT

Tuesday 9th October 2018

7:30pm

REPORT: Heritage Open Days at Deal

Saturday 15th September 2018

REPORT: How far did our Ancestors Travel?

Tuesday 11th September 2018

7:30pm

REPORT: St Margaret's Family & Local History Event

Monday 27th August 2018

REPORT: Kent Miners' Festival 2018

Monday 27th August 2018

REPORT: From Hope to Expectation

Tuesday 14th August 2018

7:30pm

REPORT: Battles for Victory Weekend

Saturday 14th July 2018 - Sunday 15th July 2018

REPORT: Newspapers: far more than family announcements

Tuesday 10th July 2018

7:30pm

Belgian Refugees in Deal

Tuesday 12th June 2018

7:30pm

James Constantine Coastguard.,Portsmouth to Sandgate

Tuesday 8th May 2018

7:30pm

AGM followed by When in want or distress - records of the Parish Overseer

Tuesday 10th April 2018

7:30pm

Beer, Wine and Spirits: Landlords and Landladies in Victorian Deal

Tuesday 13th March 2018

7:30pm

The Dover Patrol 1914 - 1918

Tuesday 13th February 2018

7:30pm

Members meeting and Christmas social

Tuesday 12th December 2017

7:30pm

A medical officer and his duties 1914/18

Tuesday 14th November 2017

7:30pm

Introduction to a Vestry Meeting.

Tuesday 8th August 2017

7:30pm

Elizabeth Carter, a different perspective.

Tuesday 11th July 2017 - Wednesday 12th July 2017

7:30pm

REPORT: Tracing your publican and brewer ancestors

Tuesday 13th June 2017

7:30pm

A child's life in the middle ages

Tuesday 9th May 2017

7:30pm

The Curling family of Kingsdown

Tuesday 11th April 2017

7:30pm

My ancestors were revolting

Tuesday 14th March 2017

7:30pm

REPORT: My Dear Grandson, My Dear Grandmother.

Tuesday 14th February 2017

7:30pm

REPORT: Robert Constantine, Turkey Merchant

Tuesday 8th November 2016

7:30pm

REPORT: Sidetracked

Tuesday 11th October 2016

7:30pm

REPORT: My Smuggling Ancestors

Tuesday 13th September 2016

7:30pm

REPORT: Bugs, Plagues and Pestilence

Tuesday 9th August 2016

7:30pm

REPORT: Nonconformity

Tuesday 12th July 2016

7:30pm

REPORT: Imperial Capital: the building of New Delhi

Tuesday 10th May 2016

7:30pm

REPORT: Branch AGM followed by 'Which John Curling'

Tuesday 12th April 2016

7:30pm

REPORT: Probate Records

Tuesday 8th March 2016

7:30pm

REPORTS: Swing Riots

Tuesday 9th February 2016

7:30pm

Life in and out of the Workhouse - REPORT

Deal- speaker Bill Beer

Tuesday 10th November 2015

7:30pm

They Dared to be Doctors - REPORT

Deal- speaker Toni Mount

Tuesday 13th October 2015

7:30pm

British Postal Museum & Archive - REPORT

Deal- speaker Helen Dafter

Tuesday 11th August 2015

7:30pm

Lost in London - REPORT

Deal- speaker Dave Annal

Tuesday 14th July 2015

7:30pm

Victorian and Edwardian Schooldays - Report

Deal - speaker Peter Ewart

Tuesday 9th October 2012

7:30pm

Settlement Records - Report

Deal - speaker Gillian Rickard

Tuesday 11th September 2012

7:30pm

Coroners' Inquests - Report

Deal - speaker Kathy Chater

Tuesday 10th July 2012

7:30pm

Tales my mother told me - Report

Deal - speaker Fred Feather

Tuesday 12th June 2012

7:30pm

Life in the Workhouse - Report

Deal - speaker Helen Allinson

Tuesday 8th May 2012

7:30pm

Kent History and Library Centre - Report

Deal - speaker Stuart Bligh

Tuesday 10th April 2012

7:30pm

The Dover War Memorial Project - Report

Deal - speaker Marilyn Stephenson-Knight

Tuesday 13th March 2012

7:30pm

Diploma in Genealogy - Report

Deal - speaker Pat Smith

Tuesday 14th February 2012

7:30pm

Newspaper Archives - Report

Deal - speaker Bob Hollingsbee

Tuesday 10th January 2012

7:30pm

Past Events in Deal