Maps and Mapping Seminar

Helsby Community Centre, Lower Robin Hood Lane, Helsby, Frodsham, Cheshire. WA6 0BW

9:30 a.m. on Saturday 15th May 2010

Programme

09:30 - 09:55	Registration and Coffee
09:55 - 10:00	Welcome to the Seminar - Rod Clayburn
10:00 - 10:15	Why Maps? - Rod Clayburn
10:15 - 11:15	E-Mapping Victorian Cheshire - Paul Newman
11:15 - 11:30	Comfort Break
11:30 - 12:30	Displaying One-Name Data on Maps - Gordon Adshead
12:30 - 13:30	Buffet Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Putting Ancestors on the Map - Geoff Riggs
14:30 - 14:45	Comfort Break
14:45 - 15:15	Plotting Parrys: One Member's Experience - Barbara Griffiths
15:15 - 15:45	Coffee / Tea and biscuits - and Demos
15:45 - 16:15	England Jurisdictions 1851 - Judy Jones
16:15 - 16:45	Wrap Up - Rod Clayburn
16:45 - 17:00	Questions
17:00	Close of seminar

Mapping your One-Name Study or family movements is becoming popular. This seminar will show you some of what is available, and what can be achieved.

The cost of the seminar will be £15 per person, including drinks and a light buffet lunch. There will then be the opportunity to chat with other delegates, view the displays and browse the Guild Bookstall.

The closing date for applications is 10th May 2010.

There are three main ways of booking¹:

You can download a booking form from here which can be completed and posted to the booking secretary together with a cheque
You can book online and pay via PayPal or credit card using the on-line form
If you prefer, you may fill in the on-line form, print it and send it with your cheque

If sending the form by post, it should be sent to the booking secretary: Sandra Turner, 2 St Annes Close, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 4LQ.

Further information may be obtained by contacting the booking secretary, or by telephoning the Guild HelpDesk on 0800 011 2182, or by email: .

Directions to Helsby Community Centre are provided here.
In addition there is also an interactive map of the seminar location, using the Ordnance Survey's new(ish) OpenSpace mapping facility, currently available (free) in beta. Seminar delegates might be interested in using this facility for their own maps on their own websites.

Delegates who wish to stay locally might be interested to know that the Premier Inn at Chester East, Chester Service Area, J14 on the M56, at Elton, CH2 4QZ, is currently offering rooms at £29.00 including the night of 14th May 2010. For further details visit The Premier Inn website and search for Elton, Cheshire.
Please note that other hotel options are available in the area, and the seminar organisers have no connection with this provider.

Disabled delegates: We would like to ensure that any disabled delegate can participate fully in this event. If you have any special requirements please phone 0800 011 2182.

¹Please note, when booking on a seminar either by post or online, the Guild's "Distance Selling" terms and conditions.

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