Devon Record Office normally presents a series of courses on various aspects of family and local history. At Exeter, we have offered a course in practical family history for beginners and another follow-up or 'intermediate' family history course. Each course has previously been offered once or twice a year, but we have ceased to offer courses while we are preparing to move to our new record office at Great Moor House. This move is currently scheduled for sometime between late spring and early autumn, 2004, depending on when the building is completed.
Although our courses are available to any new family historian who wishes to attend, they are primarily designed for new family historians who live locally, as each course involves attendance for four to six Saturday morning sessions. Occasional half or full day courses on particular types of records used by family and local historians are also offered on Saturdays. These courses are open to anyone who is able to attend.
We restrict each course to twenty people, and maintain a waiting list so that we can notify interested applicants when the next course is planned. As these courses are always popular, we sometimes fill the places from our waiting list, and do not have to advertise in the local press. Those who miss out on a place in a beginners' course because it becomes full are offered a place on the next one to be held. To join our waiting list, so that you can be notified when our courses recommence, please email or write to Susan Laithwaite or Jan Wood at Devon Record Office, or ring us on tel: 01392-384253. Email: devrec@devon.gov.uk
For details of courses planned at North Devon Record Office, Barnstaple, contact Tim Wormleighton, Principal Archivist, at the Library and Record Office, Tuly Street, Barnstaple Devon EX3 1EL, or ring him on tel: (0)1271 388607/8. Email: ndevrec@devon.gov.uk
We are in the process of making some of our course notes available through this website page. Courses held at Exeter have a substantial practical content, involving the use of microfiche, microfilm, and displays of published books, journals and magazines as well as original documents. Students are also given numerous photocopies of original documents which are then discussed in class, so we cannot currently reproduce the whole of any course on-line. However, the course notes, which give background information on each topic covered and where to find sources for Devon, are being added to this website. These take the form of separate pages on the website and start with basic introductions to various topics, continuing in some cases with more detail on particular types of records. It is up to you how far you wish to follow each course topic. Simply click on one of the headings below to start.
Some course topics are still under development
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