W.I.S.E. 70644i4, The Newsletter of W.I.S.E. Family History Society

Volume 6, No. 4 Denver, Colorado October, November December 2005

Robert the Bruce and His Traveling Heart By: John M. Mossman

You may wonder why anyone would care about the heart of King Robert Bruce which is buried at Melrose Abbey located near the River Tweed in Scotland. It so happens that I have a Bruce in my family by the name of Isabella Bruce. She was the daughter of Patrick Bruce and Janet Jackson. Isabella was born in Sterling, Scotland about 1632 and married John Woods in Scotland. Now, I understand there is a difference of a few generations but one can hope that there is a connection.

There has been much written about King Robert I, the Bruce (1274-1329). But here I would like to give a short overview of his life and accomplishments and why his heart traveled to Spain and back.

Fourth Quarter 2005 — W.I.S.E. Program Schedule

22 October - London Research Sources, Wills & Administration, Hospital & Asylum Records. Presented by Lady Teviot. Lady Teviot has been involved with Family History Research for over 35 years. Born in Sussex, England. Lady Teviot has undertaken lecture tours in Canada, Australia, South Africa, USA and New Zealand. She is President of the Federation of Family History Societies. She is also Vice Chairman of the Friends of East Sussex Record Office, Member of the Council of the British Records Association and on the Committee for the South East Museums Libraries and Archives Council.

5 November — Researching the British Isles. Presented by Derek A. Palgrave. Mr. Palgrave is currently Vice-President of the Federation of Family History Societies, President of the Guild of One-Name Studies, President of the Doncaster and District Family History Society, Vice-President of the Suffolk Family History Society, a member of the East of England Regional Archives Council and Editor of The Escutcheon, The Journal of Cambridge University Heraldic & Genealogical Society, in which he also holds the office of Secretary.

3 December — British on the Appalachian Frontier. Presented by James K. Jeffrey. Finding your British Isles ancestors on the great Appalachian Frontier is no easy task. With the closing of the frontier at the end of the French and Indian Wars with Royal Proclamation of

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The normal starting time for the above programs is 1 p.m. at the Denver Public Library, 5th floor, Gates Conference Room.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT . .

President's Message

This has been a summer to forget! As some of you know I had a mild heart attack in early June. I am doing just fine and feel great. I won't say cookies will never pass these lips again but my wife will assure you that double Devon cream and clotted cream are off the menu, that along with homemade scones apparently were my downfall, along with my genetic makeup. Yes, always blame your parents even if they have been dead for nearly forty years!

Still, all things considered it has been a great summer. If you consider Memorial Day weekend to be the start of summer then we certainly began on a high note. The visit of Fintan Mullan and Brian Trainor on Tuesday, 31 May saw an overflow audience in attendance at our very successful Ulster Historical Foundation seminar. Those two fellows, once you started rolling with their syntax provided great information and enjoyment. We purchased many items from them and you supported their efforts in kind.

Our participation in the St. Andrew Society of Colorado Highland Games in August was a great success. It could not have come off without the efforts of our W.I.S.E. member volunteers. Thank you's are in order for Dan and Fran Parker, Elizabeth Betty Brown, Nancy Craig, Eileen Langdon, and John Mossman. You all were wonderful. We all had hoped for Scottish weather and we got that in bucket-fulls. The rain did not stop on Saturday until right before noon and the wind was fierce all weekend. Perfect weather for those clad in wool and pretending to be in the Highlands for the event! John gets extra points for setting

up and breaking down, the booth that is. We look forward to next year.

The coming lecture season is upon us. By the time you are reading this Jim Walsh will have blessed us with another riveting lecture in his Irish in Colorado saga. October brings Lady Tiviot, president of the Federation of Family History Societies in the UK to our shores and early in November Derek Palgrave, vice-president of the FFS will regale us with tales as well. The dark days of December will feature the British on the Appalachian Frontier as presented by yours truly. January has many of us jetting off to Salt Lake City for a research junket and then home again for elections of new officers. Please remember as the nominating committee comes knocking at your door that yes is the correct answer when asked to give freely of your time and gifts to W.I.S.E.

James PC Jeffrey

We look forward to a great fall season to be capped off by membership renewal. See you at the meetings.

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Robert the Bruce and His Traveling Heart

W.I.S.E. Program Schedule From the President Upcoming Events Officers & Board Members Evolution of a Name Book Review The Emigrating Tenant's

Address to His Landlord Highland Games Pictures Coffee and Conversation Come Join Us

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Upcoming Events

W.I.S.E. TRIP TO SALT LAKE CITY

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W.I.S.E. is organizing a research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City the week of January 15-22, 2006, a Sunday to Sunday.

The hotel is offering a limited-time special, and our room rate for the seven nights will be $297.25 per person, double occupancy. The single rate will be $584.50 per person.

Rates include airport transfers, tax and travel agent's fee, but no meals. A non-refundable $50 deposit is required by Dec. 1, 2005, with the de-posit going toward the total room cost. Final payment will be due by Dec. 15, 2005. Zoe Lappin, WISE secretary, is organizing the trip, but reservations and payments will go directly to Atlas Travel.

As we did in January 2004 we will stay at the Best Western Plaza Hotel immediately adjacent to the library. Atlas Travel of Golden will arrange a block of rooms for us, but members will handle their own transportation.

We are arranging for a group orientation from the library staff — British Isles specialists re-quested. If 10 or more of us make the trip, we will qualify for a free, one-hour seminar presented by the hotel. These are designed to compliment, not replace, the library's orientation. We must decide on a single topic and let the hotel know 30 days in advance. The topics are: Getting the Most Out of Your Research at the Family History Library, Resource Collections at the FHL, Researching U.S. Court Records, U.S. Immigration Records, Using the Internet for Your Research, Using "Mindmapping" in Your Research, Creating Fam-ily History Treasures and Timelines: Enjoy the Journey.

A reservation form is included in this and subsequent editions of WISE Words and will be available at program meetings Please address general questions to Zoe Lappin at ZLappi@hotmail.com or 303 322-2544. The travel agent, Sally Garcia of Atlas Travel, may be reached at 303 234-1010, SallyGarcia@AtlasTravelInc.com

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W.I.S.E. Family History Society Dedicated to research in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England, Cornwall, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. Attention also directed to the emigration and immigration of these peoples as well as heraldry and one name studies.

Officers & Board Members President James K. Jeffrey

jjeffrey@denver.lib.co.us Vice President. . . Duane Woodard Secretary Zoe von Ende Lappin Treasurer Tommie Brett Kadotani Past President Paul Kilburn Membership George Fosdick Publicity John Mossman

Directors Zoe von Ende Lappin Elizabeth Brown

Country Editors: Wales Elizabeth Brown Ireland Zoe von Ende Lappin Scotland John Mossman England Donna J. Porter

Newsletter Staff Editor John Mossman

jmossmanl@juno.com Proofreader Elizabeth Brown

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WELSH GENEALOGY/FAMILY

HISTORY By: Betty Brown

Those interested in Welsh genealogy or Family History have an unusual opportunity to get expert help from a course being offered at the British Institute October 9-14 at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Danis Williams will be teaching a course on Welsh Research covering the time period from 1858 back to the early 1600s.

Darns Williams is the British reference consultant in the Family History Library, currently a reference consultant for World Wide Support. He has studied at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth and lectured at the British Isles Family History Society Conference, UGA Institute, Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference and Federation of Family History Societies Conference. He is a contributor of materials on the Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire portions of www.Genuki.org.uk and transcriber of monumental inscriptions for chapels and churches in Wales published by the Glamorgan Family History Society. He is only the second person to pass the Wales accreditation test administered by ICAPGEN.

At the Institute, classes are held in the morning. Afternoons (and evenings if one wishes) are spent doing research in the Family History Library.

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Class sizes are usually small. Instructors have individual consultations with the students and are available for on-site help.

This is the fifth year for the Institute. Darris and I were in Sherry Irvine's Problem-Solving class last year and I was very impressed with his amazing grasp of the Welsh resources available in the Family History Library. This is a unique opportunity for those who can take the course. Tuition is $335 for members of the sponsoring International Society for British Genealogy and Family History and $360 for non-members. Tuition fees include a banquet and refreshments during class breaks. Additional information and a registration form may be obtained from The British Institute, PO Box 350459, Westminster, CO 80035-0459. Cancellations before 1 August 2005 will result in a $50.00 service fee and no refunds will be made after 1 August 2005.

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Robert, considered the greatest of all the great Scottish heroes, was the eldest son of Robert de Bruce, 5th Lord Annandale, and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick. In his early years Robert seems to have been very confused between England and Scotland as to where his loyalties lay. Some say he changed sides at least 5 times, and in 1297 sided with William Wallace. He was back with the English several months later and served in the court of the English King Edward I who had earned the title "the Hammer of the Scots."

As tensions mounted between the English and the Scots, Robert decided once and for all to join the cause of freedom for the Scottish people and converted to the patriotic cause. There were a number of skirmishes between the two peoples with the Scots generally on the losing end.

Robert went into hiding to reconsider the events that happened, finally coming to grips with the fact that the strategy had to change and the troops had to be trained.

From the beginning of their history, no one had ever called the Scots a submissive people. They might bend, but they would never break. Even the Romans had to build what is called Hadrian's Wall to separate the lawless incorrigible Celtic tribes to the

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North from the so called "civilization" below.

Edward II, son of Edward I, was frustrated by the Scots reliance on guerilla tactics but thought they could be truly defeated in a pitched battle. The battle Edward sought turned into a bitter defeat for the English at Bannockburn on the 24th of June 1314. Although it was to be 14 years before the war was officially over, there was no doubt who won its most decisive battle. He was unquestionably in control of his Kingdom. He had shown that he could defeat the English by guerilla tactics or in pitched battle. (Note: The bronze statue in the accompanying photograph is of King Robert at Bannockburn and was unveiled by HM Queen Elizabeth on 24 June 1964, the 650th anniversary of the Scottish victory.)

Inn 1328 Bruce, who was now much older and in poor health, witnessed England signing the Treaty of Edinburgh/Northampton at Holyrood Abbey acknowledging Scotland's independence.

Bruce had long wished to go on a crusade against the Infidels. But before that could happen, he succumbed to what many believe was leprosy at Cardross Castle on the Firth of Clyde in 1329. His body was buried at Dunfermline Abbey. Shortly before he

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died, Bruce requested his dear friend and compatriot, Sir James "Black" Douglas, to carry his heart on the crusade to Moorish Spain. The heart was removed and placed in a silver casket where it was carried by Sir James on the crusade. On 25 August 1330, he and his Scottish supporters were trapped by the Moorish cavalry where he died in battle. The heart was recovered and taken back to Scotland where Bruce's son, the new King David II, asked for it to be buried under the high altar of Melrose Abbey.

The original site of Melrose Abbey was 4 miles down the River Tweed. It was founded by St. Aidan about 660. Then about 1131/1136, the Scottish King David I requested that the Cistercian monks establish a much superior abbey on the present site about two miles west of the original site. It was completed about 1146. It suffered much at the hands of invading English armies. In fact, King Edward II ravaged the abbey about 1322. At the direction of King Robert the Bruce, the abbey was restored in 1326 only to be destroyed again in 1385 by the English King Richard II. See the accompanying picture to see how it stands today.

Now advance forward some nearly 700 years to the summer of 1996 where an archeological excavation of the Charter House floor of Melrose Abbey was undertaken by Historical Scotland. The

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team found and examined a lead container that was thought to contain Bruce's heart. A small hole was drilled into the casket and a fiber-optic cable was inserted to ascertain its contents. The larger casket was then opened showing a small conical lead casket with an engraved plaque which stated: "The enclosed leaden casket containing a heart was found beneath Chapter House floor, March 1921, by His Majesty's Office of Works". The small casket was in very good condition despite being pitted with age. Richard Welander from Historic Scotland indicated that it was not possible to prove absolutely that it was Bruce's heart. "We can say that it is reasonable to assume that it is." The casket containing the heart was not opened and was reburied at Melrose Abbey on the 22nd of June 1998.

(Note: The photos in this article were taken by John Mossman in Scotland in June 1995).

Melrose Abbey

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EVOLUTION OF A NAME: From Birmingham and back again by Zoe von Ende Lappin

My husband, John T. "Jack" Lappin, is a grandson of Ada BIRMINGHAM, daughter of Orlo, son of Robert, son of William, son of Thomas, son of William BRUMAGHIM. It took years of research, looking in vain for Binningfiams in colonial America, to finally realize that the very English-looking and sounding name had undergone several spellings and pronunciations over the centuries. American eyes and ears had missed what is obvious to Britons, especially those familiar with the old city of Birmingham. They pronounce it something like brummagem or brummagin. We needed to look for variations of that word as a surname in early American records. When we did, the puzzle pieces fell into place.

The breakthrough came in a War of 1812 pension record for a Robert Birmingham in New York.

The name in our family had many spellings: Brumegom, Brumaghim, Brumaghin, Brumagin, Brumagim, Bromegon, Birmingfiam, etc., before it was standardized around 1820. And it was only the descendants of Thomas Brumaghim (or whatever) in our family who call themselves Birmingham. The descendants of his siblings use those other variations. It took a while to realize that all those spellings were, indeed, variations of Birmingham in its British phonetic spelling.

The name Brumaghm. and variations could be Dutch, but it's more likely a Dutch version of the English name Birmingham. Since the family lived in Dutch settlements

along the Hudson River in upstate New York, it's likely Dutch clergymen and other literate people gave it a Dutch spelling when they wrote it. Webster's New World Dictionary defines brummagem as a dialectical pronunciation of Birmingham, with reference to counterfeit coins and cheap jewelry once made in Birmingham, England. Also, a lengthy Brumagim genealogy from Montgomery County, NY, archives, says: "We assume that the family was British but that the names were recorded as Dutch."

It's possible that this was an English family who lived in Holland before immigrating to America. For instance, an e-mail November 1999 from Mildred Jeffers in Weslaco, TX, provided strong evidence of the name change. She first asked if I'd ever come upon a Birmingham family who changed the name to Bromaghim. (I had seen it the other way around.) She was looking for descendants of Peter, son of Francis B. and Mary Snyder/Schneider. A subsequent e-mail said: "It is said that Peter's ancestors came from Birmingham, England. The oldest son had inherited and four other brothers migrated to Germany for about one generation. Then to the States, landing in NY. At this time they changed the spelling of their name. A lot of this is family legend. Not sure when they came to the States."

Then there's that War of 1812 pension file. One Robert Birmingham, presumed to be a son of our Thomas and husband of a woman named Clementine Lawrence, served in E. Lynde's Co., 29th

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U.S. Infantry, War of 1812. His pension/bounty land record provides the proof that the name also was given a Dutch spelling and pronunciation —Bromagem, etc. A deposition in his pension file, dated 1855, and bearing a signature that looks like 7? Broome, bears testimony that Robert Birmingham is who he says he is. "... The deponent says that he has known the said Robert Birmingham to have been frequently called Robert Bromagham, as many of his Dutch relations are called near Albany, in the state of New York." Mr. Broome could have assumed that because the family lived among the Dutch that their origins also were Dutch. It's possible that the maternal line -- Surname unknown -- was Dutch.

Records of the Holland Land Co. in western New York, 1804-1824, show Joseph and William Bromagham buying land; there's also a record of William Birmingham doing the same. That reveals how scribes cast about for the spelling of the name before it was standardized.

Speculation by an Ohio descendant of a Brumagin also supported English name-change theory and raised this possibility. "In the 18th century there might have been confusion among people of English origin between the names Birmingham and the nickname Brumagim (don't know how the English spell it)." When this Ohioan visited Birmingham, England, in 1995, his English friends immediately made the association between the word brummagem and the city.

His ancestors, he further conjectured, "obviously went up into the Dutch country where people had trouble spelling their name. That would suggest to me the name was English, making it more likely people were unfamiliar with it, and that it was strange to officials writing it down."

An item in a book, Pilgrim, A Biography of William Brewster by Mary B. Sherwood, 1982, tells how the English Pilgrims went to the Low Countries where "for the most part they buried themselves and their names." The name Birmingham could have been corrupted in Holland before the family ever got to America.

History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Futhey and Cope, 1881, Philadelphia, ,,exparick , the Brummagem-Birmingham connection. Birmingham township there originally was pronounced Brummagem. It's not known whether it was named after a person, however.

Many Birminghams in America are of Irish descent, and it's likely their name, too, evolved this way. They probably started as Anglo-Irish, not Celtic Irish.

Finally, a response in to an online query seems to be the final word on the subject. It came from Barbara Molen in 2004:

"The original name did come from Beora a tribe and ham meaning home [presumably in prehistoric Britain]. It was pronounced Brummagem or Brummajim, and today the Birmingham

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British are very proud of using the old pronunciation because the name Birmingham was forced on the British when the Normans of France invaded England in about 1215. The name has a multitude of spellings due to scribes writing records by phonetic sound of the name as pronounced by the person. The British have stubbornly persisted in the old ancient way of the pronunciation of Birmingham Other variations are endless in the spelling all having the same origin. Today the most common spellings are Brumagin, Brumegin, Brumogin, Bromagem, Bromagen, Bromagem, Birmingham and Berminghain. No spelling is wrong as they are phonetic-sounding replacements for Brummagem."

Now to learn why it was only Thomas' line in my husband's family who reverted to the Birmingham spelling. The reason may lie in a family feud with dark roots. Only Thomas among the nine children of William Brumaghim refused to go along with the rest and have their father declared insane in 1795. William had killed his wife with a stick of wood, but for some reason Thomas wanted no part of the legal proceedings. The story is told in fragmentary records of the Chancery Court of New York (Family History Library film 0017420). Not only does it not reveal Thomas' motivation, but it also fails to provide his mother's name — another story of the female ancestor lost in time.

NOTE: Those who are researching

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English ancestors who lived among the Dutch in New York would like a new history of the area, The Island at the Center of the World; by Russell Shorto, Doubleday, 2004. Its subtitle is The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, and Shorto posits that America's encouragement of and even reverence for diversity grew out of the New Amsterdam colony, which lasted only from 1624 to 1664. About 20 percent of the inhabitants were English. Those early Dutch were well-used to respecting other cultures and religions. That tolerance plus the geography of New York harbor drew immigrants from everywhere. Without those first New Yorkers, Shorto speculates, we could have ended up as Puritan-style conformists, a theocratic-style state afraid of, new ideas.

Book Review By: Zoe von Ende Lappin

How the Irish shook up Lowell, Massachusetts

Mitchell, Brian C., The Paddy Camps of Lowell, 1821-1862, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Lowell, Massachusetts, started out as a Utopian textile manufacturing center with a capitalist agenda: By using water power instead of the filthy coal of England, employing thousands of Yankee farm women and girls and providing wholesome living conditions in company-owned boarding houses, mill owners —

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known as the Boston Associates — could maximize profits as well as stabilize, the workforce. It was the showpiece of the Industrial Revolution in America, a refreshing contrast to Lancashire, England.

That was at the outset, 1821. But then guess what happened — the Irish arrived. Starting in the 1830i, well before the Great Famine, immigrants began to settle in Lowell. The immigrant stream increased as the Famine forced the Irish to emigrate, and by 1850 Lowell was transformed from a Yankee manufacturing town to an immigrant city. That occurred just as the young women who dominated the workforce had begun to press for change, notably the 10-hour day. The willing Irish, many of them experienced textile workers, gave the mill owners a handy way to avoid labor agitation. The Irish, skilled and unskilled, would work for less and their numbers seemed endless.

The center of the, Irish community originally was known as the Paddy Camps, and eventually was called The Acre. It fostered a strong culture centered on the Catholic churches of St. Patrick's, St. Peter's and St. Mary's. Their leaders included a pair of brothers who were Catholic priests, John and Timothy O'Brien, as well as the Civil War general and eventual governor, Benjamin F. Butler. Out of this Irish stew grew a strongly matriarchal labor force and family structure: In 1855, a total of 8,820 women and 4,367 men were employed in the mills; those figured barely changed by 1868. In 1860, 31 percent of households in The Acre were headed by women.

Lowell has been the subject of

countless studies focusing on various aspects of social organization over the years. Mitchell's book combines a healthy academic objectivity with a fine sense of what it meant to be Irish in Lowell. WISE members whose research — Irish and English/Yankee -- has led them back into the mill towns of New England will find delightful insights in "The Paddy Camps." Lowell was, after all, the model for all New England textile towns.

For those interested in a broader view of the evolution of Lowell, a 1976 commemorative book, lovingly written and edited, will fill the bill. It's Cotton Was King, A History of Lowell, Massachusetts, edited by Arthur L. Eno Jr. and published by the New Hampshire Publishing Co. in collaboration with the Lowell Historical Society upon the 150th anniversary of the town's founding.

Fourth Quarter Program Schedule

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1763, the British crown set into motion steps which ultimately led to the American War for Independence. Discover the resources and records created by your frontier adventures that will flesh out their lives and your understanding of these family members in the larger picture of American history.

James Jeffrey is the Collection Specialist in Genealogy at the Denver Public Library, president of Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England Family History Society, trustee of the P. William Filby Award for Excellence in Genealogical Librarianship. James is past-president of the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies and The Society of Rocky Mountain Archivist.

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The Emigrating Tenant's Address to His Landlord

Air: "Susanna Don't You Cry" From the Oct. 20, 1849, edition of the Dundalk Democrat, County Louth, reprinted from the Dublin Mail

I'm going to a country where From poor rates I'll be free

For Ireland's going to the dogs As fast as fast can be.

I know you'd like to stop me, So I'll do it on the sly;

And with me take your half-year's rent —Your Honour, don't you cry.

Chorus, after each verse: Oh, Your Honour, don't you cry for me --

I'm going to a country where From poor rates be free.

Now that the corn laws (all) are gone, The grain's so mighty cheap,

I'll hardly find it worth my while My plot of oats to reap.

But when it's cut and sold off, To Yankee land I'll fly;

But sure I'll leave you all your land —Your Honour! Don't you cry.

I don't believe I ped (sic) the rent Within the last three years

And so I owe Your Honour Some trifle of arrears.

I'll mintion (sic) this because, perhaps, You'd like to say goodbye

To these arrears — I have them snug —Your Honour don't you cry.

I hope Your Honour may have luck When all the country's waste And when they give outdoor relief,

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May Your Honour get a taste. But if they build a UNION

For the landlords there to fly And you get in, why then, I think

Your Honour needn't cry.

Photographs from the Scottish Highland Games at Highland Ranch on 13-14

August.

FAMILY HISTCJ? , iille •tilets

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Coffee and Conversation

When: Saturday, 22 October Saturday, 26 November

Where: Central Denver Public Library Western History and Genealogy 5th Level-Gates Reading Room

Enjoy a good steaming cup of coffee as we discuss the latest fmds and treasures in Genealogy. We will meet under the derrick in the Gates Western History Reading Room. We will discuss the latest books, electronic resources and of course old standards and favorites.

Make a day of it and come for Coffee and Conversation before the W.I.S.E. meetings.

W.I.S.E. Wales, Ireland, Scotland, & England Family History Society P. O. Box 48226 Denver, Colorado 80204-8226

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COME JOIN US W.I.S.E. Family History Society is dedicated to research in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England.

Monthly meetings are generally held the fourth Saturday of most months at the Central Denver Public Library, Gates Conference Room, fifth floor and begin at 1:00 in the afternoon.

Membership is open to anyone with interest in family history and genealogy. Membership dues are $12 for an individual or $15 for a family at the same address for the calendar year which runs from January to December.

ALL ARE WELCOME