Local Family History Societies & Clubs
Virtually every area of the UK has a local family history society or club. It’s a great place to meet fellow minded people, make friends and share information. They arrange talks and have regular meetings for members. Membership fees are normally very modest as most of these clubs are non profit organisations or charities. Most societies will include many overseas members including many from USA, Canada and Australia and many areas of high expatriates looking to investigate their family history and build family trees. Most memberships include added benefits for members including free literature, and some include free family history search resources, genealogical material and libraries. Most of the websites shown below will clearly list the fees and benefits. But if you’re not sure then contact the membership secretary before joining.
Local Family History Societies greatly help collate genealogical information in their localities and make it widely available. Some societies help transcribe Local Parish Registers and transfer to microfiche or, more commonly now, make it available online. Many societies look for volunteer transcribers to help with this work – which is rewarding and helpful to Family History Researchers and Genealogists across the UK. Many Family History and Genealogical Societies maintain Family History Libraries that will be available to members, often including access to local census returns, parish register records, wills, family trees and cemetry records.
If you would like your club or society listed on this page then please contact us. Send us an email with the name of your society and your website address and we’ll add you shortly. This section is intended for non profit organisations and charities so please do not send links to business services. Thanks. We’ll be updating and upgrading this section and aim to include an interactive map shortly.
London Family History Societies
Society | Link |
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East Surrey Family History Society | eastsurreyfhs.org.uk |
London Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society | lwmfhs.org.uk |
North West Kent Family History Society | nwkfhs.org.uk |
The East of London Family History Society | eolfhs.org.uk |
The Family History Group of the London Cornish Association | londoncornish.co.uk/the-family-history-group/ |
Waltham Forest Family History Society | wffhs.org.uk/ |
West Middlesex Family History Society | west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk |
West Surrey Family History Society | wsfhs.co.uk |
South West Family History Societies
Society | Link |
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Bristol & Avon Family History Society | bafhs.org.uk |
Cornwall Family History Society | cornwallfhs.com |
Devon Family History Society | devonfhs.org.uk |
Dorset Family History Society | dorsetfhs.org.uk |
Glamorgan Family History Society | glamfhs.org |
Gloucestershire Family History Society | gfhs.org.uk |
Gwent Family History Society (Monmouthshire) | gwentfhs.info |
Hampshire Genealogical Society | hgs-online.org.uk |
Isle of Wight Family History Society | isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk |
Somerset & Dorset Family History Society | sdfhs.org |
Weston-Super-Mare Family History Society | wsmfhs.org.uk |
Wiltshire Family History Society | wiltshirefhs.co.uk |
South East Family History Societies - Kent
Society | Link |
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Ashford Branch - Kent Family History Society | kfhs.org.uk/ashford.co.uk |
Canterbury Branch – Kent Family History Society | kfhs.org.uk/canterbury |
Deal & District Branch – Kent Family History Society | kfhs.org.uk/deal.co.uk |
Folkestone & District Family History Society | folkfhs.org.uk |
North West Kent Family History Society | nwkfhs.org.uk |
The Kent Family History Society | kfhs.org. uk |
Tunbridge Wells Family History Society | tunwells-fhs.co.uk |
South East Family History Societies - Others
Society | Link |
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Hampshire Genealogical Society | hgs-familyhistory.com |
Hastings and Rother Family History Society | hrfhs.org.uk |
Isle of Wight Family History Society | isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk |
Sussex Family History Group | sfhg.org.uk |
Sussex Military History Society | sussexmilitary.org.uk |
Wiltshire Family History Society | wiltshirefhs.co.uk |
East of England Family History Societies
Society | Link |
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Bedfordshire Family History Society | bfhs.org.uk |
Cambridgeshire Family History Society | cfhs.org.uk |
Essex Society for Family History ((includes branches for Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Saffron Walden, Southend on Sea) | esfh.org.uk |
Hertfordshire Family History Society | hertsfhs.org.uk |
Norfolk Family History Society | norfolkfhs.org.uk |
Suffolk Family History Society | suffolkfhs.co.uk |
East Midlands (including Lincolnshire)
Society | Link |
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Isle of Axholme Family History Society | axholme-fhs.org.uk |
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society | lrfhs.org.uk |
Lincolnshire Family History Society | lincolnshirefhs.org.uk |
Northants Family History Society (Northamptonshire) | northants-fhs.org |
Nottinghamshire Family History Society | nottsfhs.org.uk |
Peterborough & District Family History Society | peterborofhs.org.uk |
Midlands, West Midlands & Western Home Counties Family History Societies (inc Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire)
Society | Link |
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Berkshire Family History Society | berksfhs.org.uk |
Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy | bmsgh.org |
Buckinghamshire Family History Society | bucksfhs.org.uk |
Coventry Family History Society | covfhs.org |
Gloucestershire Family History Society | gfhs.org.uk |
Herefordshire Family History Society | herefordshirefhs.org.uk |
Malvern (Worcestershire) Family History Society | mfhs.org.uk |
Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society | nnwfhs.org.uk |
Oxfordshire Family History Society | ofhs.org.uk |
Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Genealogy and Heraldry | worcesterbmsgh.co.uk |