Wiltshire Family History Society has for over 40 years been the focus for people everywhere with Wiltshire ancestors and for local family historians.
Founded in 1981 and with a worldwide membership, its aim is to encourage the study of family history, including both the Wiltshire ancestry of people world-wide and the world-wide ancestry of today’s Wiltshire residents. Contacts between members include meetings, a quarterly Journal, and participation in shared activities such as its highly regarded transcription team that creates wide-ranging reference resources.
The Society sells these transcripts as books, CD, downloads and fiche. Over 500 items can be purchased direct from the Society or from Genfair, the “One-Stop Shop” for Family and Local Historians. Details of items for sale and their available formats are published periodically in a sales leaflet with the Journal and on the website.
Members not only research their ancestors by name but use all available information to build up a picture of the settings in which they lived. As the Society consists of a friendly mixture of complete beginners and experienced family historians. there is every opportunity for everyone to receive encouragement in their researches.
For more information, see www.wiltshirefhs.co.uk and www.genfair.co.uk
We are the family history society who looks after much of Greater London north of the Thames. The area we cover includes the Cities of London and Westminster, much of what used to be the county of Middlesex plus south Hertfordshire. These areas are now in the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow and Islington, together with parts of Ealing and Hillingdon.
Local knowledge of the many repositories and records available for the Greater London area has been used to create our famous and unique series of Parish Guides to the different towns, districts and villages. These show the well-known sources of information, with dates covered and whether they are also online, together with more unusual archives which might contain mentions of ancestors. If you have ancestors buried here, you might find one of our Monumental Inscriptions booklets useful. We also have two Census Guides naming streets from the 1851 census returns for Westminster and the City of London, which are invaluable in establishing where our ancestors lived.
We publish a quarterly journal Metropolitan, which contains articles, correspondence, a ‘Help’ column, news of Society activities, project work and much more. This is free to members, as is our popular Virtual Branch, which meets monthly on Zoom.
We bring together family historians with ancestors in our area or who live here. If this is you, our Society is a friendly and useful group who would love you to join us to further your family history journey.
Membership and publications are available via Parish Chest https://www.parishchest.com and Gen Fair: https://www.genfair.co.uk.
Sussex Family History Group celebrated its 50th Anniversary last year. We have about 3,500 members in Sussex, the rest of the UK, and around the world. There are four meeting centres in the County at Brighton & Hove, Horsham, Uckfield and Worthing; so if you live in Sussex you are likely to find one fairly near to you. We also provide talks online via Zoom to reach as many members as possible.
Our quarterly journal, Sussex Family Historian, is posted to all members as part of their annual subscription. This journal is typically a sixty page A5 document full of articles and information about Sussex. The Group has its own Library and Family History Centre at The Keep in Falmer, Brighton.
The SFHG has designed and built databases of Sussex Information, Monumental Inscriptions, Marriage Indexes, Census Returns, Parish Records (baptisms, marriages, and burials), strays, members interests, Wills, members own family research and other genealogical information as it becomes available and effort permits. The latest database is the Sussex People Index, being built with contributions from various sources that mention Sussex individuals. Much of this data is gradually being placed online in our Data Archive, with free access to members.
The Society was formed in 1975 in Lowestoft and has now grown to have 5 groups across Suffolk and over 1500 members across the world. Most are in the UK, but we have good representation in North America and the Antipodes and a smattering of members around mainland Europe, plus one in South Africa, and another in Malaysia. We have no offices, telephones or paid staff and all our services are provided by volunteer members. We hope you will find something to interest you.
Membership entitles you to:
- 20% discount on Suffolk parish register indexes
- four issues of our quarterly journal, Suffolk Roots
- a monthly e-newsletter
- attend meetings at venues in Suffolk and talks on Zoom
- full access to the Member Area Help Forum to post requests for assistance
- publish your surname interests on line
- access our member only on-line resources which include a variety of indexes from Hearth Taxes, to Vaccination registers and MI’s. We continue to add new data sets.
See our website for joining options:
You can also email us:
Oxfordshire FHS is a Registered Charity, Number 275891 and is a member of the Family History Federation.
If you have ancestors from Oxfordshire, then we have the resources to help you. If you live in Oxfordshire and are interested in Family History, even if you don’t have Oxfordshire ancestors then OFHS could still help you.
We hold talks and member chatrooms online via Zoom. Check the events calendar on www.ofhs.uk/events <http://www.ofhs.uk/events>. Many of our past talks are also recorded and available in the Past Talks section in the Members’ Area of our website.
OFHS Members also enjoy free access to the Big Oxfordshire Names Database (BOND) a rich source of searchable records drawn from Parish Register transcriptions, Monumental Inscriptions including images, surname data stretching back to the medieval period collated from numerous publications, Quarter Session records and some Grave Registers for Oxford City. This is a growing resource so please check www.ofhs.uk/new-contributions/what-is-in-bond for details of the latest coverage. We hold our own Family History fair which this year will be on Saturday 24th October 2026 - www.ofhs.uk/fair2026.
Volunteers from the Society man advisor sessions at the Oxfordshire History Centre and in libraries across Oxfordshire.
Our objectives are:
1. To advance education in family history and genealogy primarily within the post-1974 county of Oxfordshire.
2. To collect, index, co-ordinate, publish and make accessible in the interests of family history and genealogy any relevant document or records relating to the county
3. To promote the preservation of such documents or records.
4. To encourage the study of family history and genealogy
5. To assist educationally by lectures or otherwise in record research
6. To co-operate with family history and other societies with similar interests.
