Heritage volunteers hard at work

The last meeting of our heritage volunteers included a presentation by Dr Gill Cookson on her Richardson historical research (more on this soon). Gill also ran a workshop on online historical and image research for the volunteers. 

Reproduced by permission of Durham County Records Office

The afternoon was spent in the dome at Scampston Hall, with our photographers Susanna and Phil Callaghan. 

During the past six months our team of heritage volunteers have succeeded in sorting scattered piles of family and estate records into neat boxes organised by date and subject.  

Gill Cookson  with Heritage Volunteers and Liz Smith, Oral Historian

Now the next phase of painstaking work begins: going through all of these boxes and treasure chests, paper by paper - a huge and fascinating journey of discovery

The painstaking work begins...... 

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