Dr Colin R Chapman is speaking at the Society of Genealogists’ Centenary Conference 7 May 2011

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 10:06 am

Speakers at the Society of Genealogists’ Conference

Breaking the Barriers – Innovative Genealogy in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Royal Overseas League , London . 7 May 2011

Dr Colin R Chapman will be speaking on -

The Progress of Our Profile – 100 years of the Society of Genealogists

Session 2A, 11.45-12.45

An illustrated account of the Society’s development from 1911 to 2011 and its impact on international genealogical research. Born in borrowed premises, the Society embraced interests across the United Kingdom, British Empire and then worldwide, collecting unique and transcribed materials into its ever-expanding prestigious library. Public access to Government historical papers and archives throughout the past 100 years has been championed by the Society voicing forceful arguments to national committees and consultation groups. With a century of expertise from paper-based notes to electronic storage and delivery of data and documentation, the SoG continues to advance with the times

Colin is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, and former member of its Executive Committee. An international lecturer and author of 14 genealogically-related books he was Founder of six county-based Family History societies, the President of three and Patron of another. A Freeman of the City of London and formerly a professional industrial chemist and engineer with international experience, Colin has has spoken regularly in the Society’s lecture programme in recent years and lectures weekly somewhere in the world on social, local and family history