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The next meeting of RSHG will be held at the George Street Centre in Ryde on Saturday 12th January 2008 commencing at 10:30 am.
David Earle, Ryde Social Heritage Group's Membership Secretary and Leader of the Mapping Group, is a man of many talents and a valuable member of our team. He recently impressed us all by making a plaque to adorn the display case we had installed in Ryde Cemetery last year.
The dedicated team of Transcribers have been meeting in Ryde Cemetery every Saturday morning throughout the year to record the inscriptions from the grave stones and memorials.
We normally work for a couple of hours and only the severest of weather conditions would normally put off this intrepid troupe.
Our Research Group was busy again in November and 35 records were updated with census information, death notices, obituaties and other information.
I am really pleased to announce that on 10 November 2007 we passed the milestone of uploading the 4000th individual record to Ryde Social Heritage Group's website.
Our Researchers were busy again in October and have updated 28 records with information gleaned from a variety of records including census records, directories and death and funeral reports from local newspapers.
RSHG held its AGM at the George Street Centre in Ryde at 10:30am on Saturday 13th October. The meeting was well attended with 32 members and 10 guests.
After reading the article on Augustus George Vernon-Harcourt, Jane Ryder sent us information on her great uncle, Harry Higgins, who worked for Augustus for a short time between 1903 and 1906.
It has been an eventful 11 months since our first AGM in November 2006.
Our hard working Research Team is always busy researching and typing up information to add to the records already on the website.