Glasgow and West Scotland FHS
The GWSFHS covers the old Strathclyde Region centred on Glasgow, although there are also other 'county' societies in this area. The society was founded in 1977 and is still growing strong. Our resources are focussed on our research centre in Partick, Glasgow and on our 3-year-old website.
Member benefits
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Monthly members’ meetings with a talk presented via Zoom
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A full colour 48-page Journal three times annually
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Online access to a complete archive of previous issues of our Journal
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Online access to GWSFHS data sets in our website members’ only area
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Research assistance by our research volunteers
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Free access to the resources in our Research Centre & Library
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SAFHS reciprocal access to libraries of other SAFHS member societies
Our Research Centre at 32 Mansfield St, Glasgow, G11 5QP is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 1pm-4pm.
Member Resources
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Research Centre
The Centre is home to books, maps, CDs, fiches, and publications from other societies. It offers free access to family history websites, and expert volunteers are on hand to help using the equipment and the resources. -
Data Sets
The Society is gradually digitising its unique data sets and will publish them on this website when they are ready. Members will be able to search these records which include MIs, parish registers, ancestral marriage index. -
Library
The Library holds approximately 4,000 publications relevant to Scottish genealogy searchable through the index, and a unique collection of unpublished or privately published family histories and charts.
Online Shop
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We sell an increasing range of our own publications in PDF format
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Customers may download the PDF file(s) immediately after payment
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Card payments are accepted through Stripe or PayPal
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Publications include:
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Research Guides
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Transcriptions of Monumental Inscriptions
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Transcriptions of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials
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Lair holders
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Passport applications
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Contact us
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Website contact form: https://www.gwsfhs.org.uk/contact/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gwsfhs/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/gwsfhs
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gwsfhs/
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Telephone: +44 (0) 141 339 8303
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!
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