The Isle of Axholme Family History Society

Publications Page Update- New booklets will be added shortly. Guestbook- Why not take a visit to the Guestbook page. Members Interests- Society members can now fill in an on-line form to see who else is researching their particular surname. Subscriptions- Subscriptions become due for renewal on the 1st April. For as little as £8 a year you can keep in touch with other members researching their Isle roots.

Email Spam

There seems to be a tremendous amont of email spam been delivered to many email addresses at the moment, and everybody I speak to is having the same problem. You may need to alter some settings in your email program to filter out some of the spam, or alternatively get hold of a new email program that deletes these emails before they are downloaded from your server.

To show you how bad things are at the moment, every day through the society email system over 1,000 spam emails are deleted by our server, and also on my private email system just a few less. These emails usually begin with:

"Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender"

"Mail delivery failed"

"Returned mail"

Nearly all these emails have been sent to your account and must not be replied to as it lets the spammers know that your email address is "Live" and therefor they know to carry on spamming your address. The best thing is to set your email program to automatically delete them as they arrive. For those using Outlook Express I have written a tutorial on the "Help" page for your assistance.

Why not take a look at our Glass Slides page and few of the photos and see if there is anything that you find familiar. We would really like to know who the Vicar is who is on many slides along with his wife and children, because we think that it may have been him who was the main photographer of the slides. We also think that he may have come from somewhere in the North East of England as some of the slides show "Darlington" and a poster advertising a football match between "United and Jarrow" in the North-Eastern League, at the Victoria Ground on the 3rd of September (no year given), although a poster next to it shows a date of 1910.

Isle of Axholme 1841, 1851 & 1861 Census CD's now available

We have now completed producing a CD version of the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census transcriptions that cover the whole of the Isle of Axholme. It is a fully searchable database by either Surname or Household. The following parishes are included on the CD's. Althorpe, Amcotts, Belton, Crowle, Eastoft (Yorks & Lincs) Epworth, Garthorpe, Haxey, Luddington, West Butterwick, Owston Ferry & Wroot. Also covered are parts of the parishes of Adlingfleet, Ousefleet Reedness and Whitgift, as these are in the corner north of the Isle where the parish boundaries overlap with each other. The CD is now available from the Bookstall, and the price of these CD's will be £10 each (p&p for UK is 50p and the rest of the world is £1.00). We will be continuing the series with all the other census for the Isle in the near future, and we will still be producing the Census booklets for the individual parishes for those who require them in that format.

What a surprise!!

Following Lunch at the Day School, Chairman Derek Wells presented Norma and Eric Neill (our Secretary and Treasurer/Membership Secretary respectively) with a Certificate for Honourary Life Membership, a Card was signed by those present, together with a large flower arrangement, expressing the Society's sincere appreciation for their endeavours and commitment throughout the 20 years since the Isle of Axholme Family History Society was founded.

New Publications

We have now updated out publications page where you will find plenty of new, and updated booklets and CD's available to purchase. Because of the recent price rises advertised by Royal Mail, we have had to increase the postage price for a few of the "larger" booklets. We have kept most of the booklets at the same postal price which we will offset through our sales.

A New Forum for the Site

We have added a new Forum to the web site and you can find a link to it on the menu on the left hand side of this page. It can be used to help you find the odd addition to your family tree, or just a place to share stories and experiences while researching your family roots. This is on a trial for the moment to see how things go. If we find that it takes too much administering or people start to abuse it we shall take it back down again. Hopefully it will serve to help people fill that gap in their tree a little easier.

Journal on CD

The society has had all 79 of its journals dating back to 1987 digitised, and we have now put them altogether on a single CD which is available now from our Bookstall. It has been made searchable using Adobe Acrobat and will come with the latest edition of Adobe Reader. Many of the journals contain members interests from the Isle along with the regular family stories and info sent in by society members. The cost of the CD is £6.00, + 50p p&p(UK) and £1.00 for overseas postage, and is now available from our bookstall.

Our next meeting

We welcome old and new members to our next meeting when we welcome Gill Briscoe, who will be talking to us about "Physick, Fever and Fleas" This will be held on the 22nd May 2008 at the Wesley Memorial Hall in Epworth. Our Library and Bookstall will be open, and light refreshments will be available.