| Elizabeth Briggs |
| Elizabeth Briggs, B.Sc., B.Ed., and M.Ed. was born and educated in Glamorgan, South Wales, completing her post-secondary education in Canada. She taught high school for many years, retired in 2003, and now volunteers at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives in Winnipeg. Elizabeth completed courses on Palaeography at Brigham Young University and Welsh Genealogy in Aberwystwyth, Wales. Elizabeth has written or co-authored many books to help people research their family history and has also written an eight week on-line course for the National Institute of Genealogy in Toronto on reading and interpreting old handwriting. She teaches genealogy courses in Winnipeg and has been an invited speaker at seminars across Canada, Orkney Family History Society, and Manitoba Genealogical Society. She was genealogist in residence in August 2005 at the Red River Reunion, a ten day conference at Lower Fort Garry, Manitoba. Elizabeth is a past president of the Manitoba Genealogical Society and she has co-chaired two seminars. She has researched family history in the national archives of Canada, U.S.A, and England; provincial archives in Canada; county archives in Britain; and the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. |
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| Presentations: |
| • | Palaeography - An Introduction to Reading & Interpreting Old Handwriting |
| | Presentation includes: learning to read and understand modern English writing from the fifteenth century; writing materials; examples of handwriting with characteristic letters; yogh and thorn; techniques for reading old handwriting; and reading letters, words, phrases & sentences. |
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