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Welcome to the East Surrey FHS
For the past forty three 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.
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, ready to pass on tips and hints from their own research.
Gondolas and Growlers
A Zoom talk by Ian Waller
Nov 9, 2020 7:30 PM
A talk concerning the horse cab men of London.
DNA Testing - making the most of your match
A Zoom talk with Donna Rutherford
Monday January 11 at 7:30pm
Donna will enlighten us on the basics of DNA testing and may be able to help with queries received in advance of the meeting.
Setting up a Quick Private family 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
ESFHS publications
They will be available from our bookstall at events and fairs or can be downloaded as PDFs from the online shops at GenFair www.genfair.co.uk and Parish Chest www.parishchest.com , priced at £3
