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Thank you for your good wishes for 2024 which I am sure we all extend to you and your great team. 

The January Newsletter (which looks very interesting) was a prompt to me to renew my subscription as it is easily forgotten.  I am needing access to the transcriptions more than ever now as I have lost all my work on my family tree of 20 plus years, due to a failure of my hard drive.  I was gutted at first but now I am taking the opportunity to research in a much more disciplined way, slowly but surely.  Being a bit of a hoarder, I had not thrown away all my notes so they are giving me some information that I can check and correct.

My new year resolution is to back up my work on a regular basis.  I hope I can keep it.

Best wishes to all researchers and may your brick walls be surmountable.

£3,000 was a LOT to lose in 1924!! 

...and season's greetings to you and yours, Pat.

Thanks for the picture of the "great and good" watching people in the workhouse eating their Christmas dinner - it would really put me off my food having them watch me eat!...and I doubt that the cook, holding the enormous christmas pudding, could have stood there for long...

Many thanks for your comments re Colin Chapman's talk precis - the availability of these does rest on a member of the audience being willing to produce one for us.

Brian and Pam - many thanks for your precis of the Colin Chapman  talk last week- much appreciated by those who cannot get to the physical meetings - ensures such members feel part of the Society .

I for one would have enjoyed such a precis for the Honey Langcaster-James talk on "Early Founders of WSM" - on 12/7/2023. I note that it has not appeared on the "videos" section- understandable if she express a wish against it - but a precis might have been good ?

Several Family History Societies do put a precis of physical meetings in their journals -  not just a precis but also a list of the websites/info sources that the meeting speaker has mentioned - 

useful for those not able to attend !

So once again - many thanks for your time and trouble on Colin Chapmans "Seasonal Traditions"  ! Made me think of our own  family Christmas traditions .....

..how clever of your mum, Pat, to make blackboards and easels!  Lucky you!!

Yes, I was horrified by the number attending the last Zoom meeting - with Peter on holiday I should have reminded people, sorry.