IT’S LIFT OFF FOR FAMILY TREE LIVE!

At last, the wait is over! Family Tree Live takes place at historic Alexandra Palace on 26 and 27 April – and we can’t wait to see you there! Find full details, including how to book your lecture and workshop places, at familytr.ee/live19 and turn to p24-27

APRIL 2019

From 1 April Courses

Online: Pharos Tutors has three courses starting this month with places available at time of writing. On 1 April Barbara H Baker presents Organising Your Genealogy (3 weeks, £34.99); Simon Fowler’s course Your Military Ancestors begins 8 April (4 weeks, £45.99/£61); from 30 April Janet Few presents Are you Sitting Comfortably? Writing and Telling Your Family History (5 weeks, £49.99/£64.99).

• www.pharostutors.com

2 April Get-together

Harrogate: This is a Your Fair Ladies get-together day at The Friends Meeting House for those already using Family Tree Maker software from MacKiev, or who may be curious and would like to sit back to get a feel of how the program works and interacts with Ancestry.

• 10.15am-3.30pm. £16 or £21 for new attendees. Refreshments provided, bring lunch. Book by emailing depellejg@aol.com or visit yourfairladies.ning.com/events/family-tree-maker-3

From 1 April Exhibitions

Cornwall. The Telegraph Museum in Porthcurno – once the world’s largest telegraph station – has launched a season of interactive exhibitions. During WW2, Porthcurno Telegraph Station was the hub of communications in Britain, and was deemed so important that it was moved underground and protected by bomb-proof doors, military guards and lamethrowers. The museum’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of how ordinary people did extraordinary things to keep communications between Britain and her Allies open during WW2; I Spy: The Secret Listeners reveals how the telegraph was used for espionage, and visitors can explore the secret tunnels.