The new President of the Family History Federation, Dr Janet Few, is keen to see family history societies embracing the technology and the tactics that will ensure their success long into the future. In a recent interview with Family Tree, Janet Few expands on her ideas, and thoughts on the ways in which family history societies can benefit from virtual meetings – from larger audiences, to enabling members from worldwide to attend. Such an approach has the advantage of enlarging the pool from which committee members may be recruited too. In addition it may also open the doors of family history societies to the new and younger online communities of genealogists –a topic about which Janet Few is very passionate.
Listen to Janet Few’s opening talk at the forthcoming Really Useful Family History Show, Friday 12 November www.fhf-reallyuseful.com(Tickets to the Really Useful Family History Show £10; for full details of the show programme Friday 12 and Saturday 13 November, please see page 26-27).