Want to trace Your Caribbean Roots?
PEOPLE who have a connection with the West Indies are invited to a workshop next Saturday that will help them to trace their roots.
�Roots from the Caribbean to Preston and Beyond� will take place at the Lancashire Record Office on Bow Lane, Preston, next Saturday, October 10 at 1 pm.
The workshop will be led by Ronald Clarke who is Preston born and bred. Ronald is both funny and wise from his experiences tracing his Jamaican and Scottish ancestry.
He says: �It's brilliant that the Record Office is offering its support for the African Caribbean community in Lancashire to begin to document its presence in the county. Given the number of programmes on television that show how exciting this process can be, I'm sure there will be many people who would love to take this opportunity to start to research and write their own 'family trees'. I hope that whatever we're able to develop from the workshop will, in a year's time, be something to really celebrate for Black History Month 2010�.
The workshop has been devised as part of the Record Office�s contribution to Black History Month. This is a national event which is celebrated annually. The Record Office has previously contributed talks, exhibitions and publications to raise awareness of the county�s own Black presence, which dates back over 400 years.
Other events planned during October include community discussions, film nights and performing arts workshops, all to be held in Preston.
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