The Family & Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS) is a UK based society, celebrated our silver anniversary in 2023. FACHRS aims to help those who wish to discover more about the day-to-day lives of their ancestors; to promote research by professional and nonprofessional historians into social, local, and family history; and encourage links between institutionally based and independent researchers.
Members can:
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take part in annual projects based around occupations (2022 – Milliners) – regular online get togethers are held, members chat about their findings, raise queries, and keep up to date with project news.
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join in major projects which are more in depth and last for several years, the outcome resulting in a FACHRS book. The present project is based around research into the Patient experience in British Asylums during the second half of the Nineteenth Century.
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contribute articles to the FACHRS Newsletter on the results of their project research or their own independent research topics and can submit more academic articles to our peer reviewed Journal, Family & Community History.
FACHRS holds an Annual Conference in May (hybrid) and an Annual Project Online Conference in February.
Want to know more contact us here or see our website: www.fachrs.com
The Society was founded in 2002 to provide help to researchers tracing their Italian ancestry anywhere in the UK and back to Italy.
Members can access collections of records via our website as well as archived copies of our journal.
The website also has useful websites, research guides and surname interests.
We arrange webinars for members on topics of interest and some recordings are on the website.
Meetings are held online via Zoom.
Annual membership is £8.
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Our aims are to promote and encourage the public study of British Family history, genealogy, heraldry, and local history with particular reference to Essex and to promote the preservation, and accessibility of archival material
Our Website includes:
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Surnames Interest area (see who’s already researching your surname)
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Essex gazetteer listing ‘old Essex’ place names
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Over 2 million genealogical records, and still growing!
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Concessionary Subscription rates to www.findmypast.co.uk
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24hr access to a host of recorded talks, workshops etc.
Members can enjoy at least 10 live and/or virtual meetings and events, a year, and be able to discuss their research with fellow members
Membership is only:
£8 per year for membership including electronic copy of our magazine.
£16 per year for membership including UK delivery of our paper magazine
£25 per year for membership inc. Worldwide delivery of our paper magazine.
Online events are currently free, & live events cost £3 per event for members & visitors
Our magazine ‘The Essex Family Historian’ is published 3 times per year, typically containing over 20 articles & much more.
Join us today at: www.esfh.org.uk!
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Buckinghamshire Family History Society covers the Historic County of Buckinghamshire from Olney in the north, now in Milton Keynes to Hythe End, Wraysbury next to Staines on Thames and now in Surrey. With major towns like Aylesbury, Buckingham, High Wycombe & Slough the county covers the major roads to and from the west of England and Wales.
Our extensive knowledge about the county and its records makes Bucks FHS a leader in Family History and Local History within Buckinghamshire. Attendees to the event will have access to our records to help with any research questions.
The area covered by East Surrey FHS includes the ancient parishes along the Thames, from Rotherhithe to Thames Ditton and then southwards to include Chessington, Leatherhead, Fetcham, Mickleham, Betchworth, Leigh and Newdigate and all parishes eastwards. If you live in, or have ancestors in any of these parishes you would be most welcome to join us.
The Society has its own research centre based at Lingfield, where it offers a drop-in help service, although inquiries online are welcome. Most months there is also a live meeting held here. More informal meetings are held at the National Archives on a Saturday afternoon and there is at least one talk a month hosted on Zoom. Most of these talks are recorded and played at the other end of the day so members from North America and Australasia can join us.
Our quarterly journal includes a variety of contributions, including comprehensive reports of our talks on Zoom for those not having internet access.
In 2023 in addition to our regular meetings we held an enjoyable creative writing course, organised a number of Surrey walks and other visits and held our first online transcription event. As a result, we are delighted to announce that an index of the Netherne Hospital Burial Register will be available from the Surrey History Centre in the New Year.
This is our third virtual fair so we are on our way to becoming an established part of the genealogical calendar.
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