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Heritage

Heritage is a wide ranging term and may refer to examples of inheritance, legacy, heredity, and kinship, which is the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin.

 

So every aspect of The Metcalfe Society activities aim to identify, record and preserve the heritage value of all that is deemed Metcalfe – including family history, heraldry, how and where people lived, worked and moved, their names such as Mecca,  etc.   As part of these activities, trends appear and repeat themselves to reveal the interests of various Metcalfes too - another less tangible way of recording and preserving the Metcalfe heritage.   Therefore The Metcalfe Society is not just about helping people trace their family tree but also holds an important collection of information on all that is Metcalfe.  

 

The Annual General Meeting includes the Muster bringing together Metcalfes from around the world to North Yorkshire, in particular the Wensleydale area in the Yorkshire Dales each autumn.  

 

The celebrated UK TV programme 'Who Do You Think You Are' repeatedly illustrates, a celebrity tracing their family tree can see where they have come from and how many ancestors have left a legacy that influences their identify and what they do today. This our heritage too. It is part of all of us.



Federation of Family History Societies Member Guild of One Name Studies Member Based in the Yorkshire Dales National Park Best Website 2009 Award, Federation of Family History Societies 2009 Elizabeth Simpson Award - Commended, Federation of Family History Societies

Established in 1980. UK Registered Charity No. 1000879.
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