IWOULD just like to add to, and correct one small error in your otherwise excellent piece Back to Your Roots (Letters, November 18.

Mrs Gwen Tregartha is secretary of the Hyndburn branch of the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society, not of the whole society. Contacts to the society can be made through the chairman, Terry Walsh, 01706 825557; correspondence secretary, Tony Prince 01772 747917 or membership secretary, Ted Palantine 01772 863318.

The Society has 13 branches in total. In addition to those you listed, meetings are held monthly at Bury, Chorley, Preston two groups, one devoted to heraldry, Fylde, Blackpool, Lancaster and Morecambe, Rochdale and quarterly for London and the South East at the Society of Genealogists.

The Society also publishes a quarterly journal, 'Lancashire,' which is packed with information, lists of members interests and hints.

W J TAYLOR, President, Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society.

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