Welcome to the East Surrey FHS
For the past forty four years the East Surrey Family History Society has been helping members trace their family history whether they have family connections to the East Surrey area or enjoy attending events connected with family, social or local history.
The Society covers parishes in the Eastern part of the ancient County of Surrey. This includes several modern day London Boroughs - Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth, in addition to the more rural parts of the county.
If you are new to family history then we can help put you on the path to good research. Not all records are available on the internet and some of those are very confusing. If you are more experienced then we can reinforce your knowledge with additional information or techniques.
Joining a family history society means that you can meet like-minded people with the same enthusiasm for this fascinating subject who are ready to pass on tips and hints from their own research.
If you wish to login into the website, click here. The "Username" is your registered email address, and if you have not got a password click on "Forgot Your Password" and you will receive an email enabling you to set/reset your password. You may have to look in your spam folder for this email.
Virtual (Zoom)
August: Tuesday 9, 8.00 p.m.
Researching Brewery and Publican Ancestors
Simon Fowler
Time, Gentlemen? Why not make use of your time to learn from Simon, who is a former employee of the National Archives?
Richmond:- Informal Meeting
September 10
2:15pm
Currently the Group meets in the ground floor café at The National Archives at Kew.
Richmond meetings are informal, with attendees sharing their family history stories around the table
Virtual (Zoom)
September Monday 12, 10.00 a.m.
Hidden Secrets of Birth Registration
Antony Marr
Did you think you knew what a maiden name is? You might be surprised, as Antony is a former Registrar and is able to reveal all the things you didn’t know about birth registration
Lingfield:- Dickens and the Foundling Hospital
Jane King
September 28th
2:30pm
A talk on Charles Dicken’s involvement with the Hospital
And how it featured in his writings
If you need help or would like to browse through family history books before purchasing them, The East Surrey Bookstall and helpdesk may aid you!
Available at these EVENTS(Click here)
How to build a private and unsearchable research tree.
You may have heard people say they used a 'quick and dirty' Private family tree to find some ancestors to do some reasearch on. When I heard that I wasn't sure what they had done and it sounded an unusual thing for a careful genealogist to do. The issue was also clouded because you can't see anyone else's Ancestry Private Trees, because they are Private!
In the attached document I have provided a step by step guide on how to set up a Private Tree in Ancestry. I chose Ancestry because of its large underlying database (18 million records) but you could use a similar approach for the other Research sites that include a tree building facility that you can keep Private. Please do keep it Private or you may upset people whose help you will need in the future!
Happy Hunting! '
Anne Ramon
