This week, the Milford on Sea Historical Record Society (MOSHRS) has launched the second of its Local History Lives! suite of search aids - online access to a Names Directory which is being filed with over 90,000 records of people and places with connections to Milford on Sea.
If you are unsure of the spelling of the name of the family or place then you can make use of wildcards where a “?” can mean any letter you don’t know. Having isolated a source, the researcher may contact the relevant repository such as the Hampshire Record Office and examine the original document (or facsimile).
Funding for Local History Lives! has come the Hampshire Archive Trust, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Parish Council and Hampshire County Council, as well as from MOSHRS.
Local History moves forward in jumps – new sources are uncovered, new topics are researched, old topics are reassessed – it is a constantly changing landscape. Local History Lives! allows us to move with these changes, as new lists are uncovered you will find them in our Names Directory.
Local History Lives! provides us with an ever-widening window into the past.
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About the Milford on Sea Historical Record Society
The society has an excellent website with a lot of information and historical pictures of Milford on Sea's past.
The MOSHRS meet 5 times a year where you can hear an interesting talk and meet people from across the village. There are also annual visits to places of interest. Membership is just £10 pa.
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