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Your Home Your Story

A series of free talks from the team at Jersey Archive

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  • 20 April 2024 - 21 December 2024
  • Jersey Archive

Discover the story of some of the Island's properties and communities in a series of free talks from the team at Jersey Archive. Learn how to start your own house history research. All our talks are recorded and placed online for you to enjoy.

Jersey Archive will also be open from 9am to 1pm for general research.

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  • Saturday, 20 April / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 18 May / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 15 June / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 20 July / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 17 August / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 21 September / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 19 October / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 16 November / 10am to 11am
  • Saturday, 21 December / Tours at 9.30am, 10.30am and 11.30am

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Talk dates and themes

20 April – Your Home, Val de la Mare’s Story

18 May – Your Home, St Martin’s Village’s Story

15 June – Your Home, First Tower’s Story

20 July – Your Home, Gorey Village’s Story

17 August – Your Home, St John’s Village and Mont Mado’s Story

21 September – Your Home, Longueville and Bagot’s Story

19 October – Your Home, St Aubin’s Story

16 November – Your Home, Le Mourier in St Mary’s Story

21 December – Tours of Jersey Archive (available at 9.30am/ 10.30am/ 11.30am)

 

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Brand new talks online
Your Home Your Story

A brand new series of talks from Jersey Archive, starts with new archive and collections open to the public, each month a new talk will be added. Sponsored by Antony Gibb Historic Buildings Consultants.

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What's Your Town's Story?

Discover the people and places of Jersey with our What’s Your Street’s Story talks. You can also learn more about starting your family history, the treasures of the archive and many more topics.

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What's Your Street's Story?

Discover the stories of the streets and parishes of Jersey in this series of talks, researched, written and presented by the Jersey Archive team

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What's On?

There's always something new to discover

We bring stories to life, through living history, tours, activities and events. So that no matter how you can choose to enjoy it, we can help you find your place in the Island’s story

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Family history research

Get started researching your family history in Jersey

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Our collections

We care for the Island’s collections of archaeology, archives, art and social history.

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What's On

Meet the Collections

Behind the scenes to look at objects and artwork in our collection.

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History

The Brighton Road tragedy

Donna Le Marrec, who works for the National Trust Jersey, uncovered surprising and tragic stories in her family tree.

Research

Archives and Collections Online

Discover more about our collections by searching the online catalogue which contains over 750,000 descriptions of the unique documents and objects that we care for.

The online catalogue allows you to explore digital images of many of our collections from wherever you are in world. This includes resources for family and social history, photographs from the Jersey Evening Post and Société Jersiaise archives, images of our object and art collections in store and archaeological finds.

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