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HALS special opening for members from 2.00pm to 5.00pm. This is a Help Session with HALS staff and HFHS committee
A police officer in London for 30 years now has second career in Genealogy and Family History Research. Qualified with Universities Strathclyde and Greenwich. Council member of AGRAC. Chair of AGRA board of assessors. Member and regular visitor to Society of Genealogists. Deputy Registrar in Bucks. dealing with all aspects of B,M,D essential in tracing living or missing relatives.
Herts FHS Member since the earliest days: former chairman, former HP editor, President since 2018. Alan is our expert advisor on most Family History topics, particularly Nonconformity.
Adam Smith worked as a Museum curator for 15 years, including seven years at Normanby Hall. Lincolnshire, until 2006 when he married and moved to Hertfordshire, where he is now a part time lecturer and house husband. He is an Honorary research fellow for the Centre for Archival Practices and a co-educator on “Literature of the English Country House", an open online course run by the School of English.
Taught history at the University of Hertfordshire and has written a number of books and articles on Hertfordshire history. Chairman of the Hertford and Ware Local History Society and the Hertfordshire Record Society