WSFHS OPEN DAY AND FAMILY HISTORY FAIR
Our Next open day will be on:Saturday 5th November 2016
Woking Leisure Centre, Kingfield Rd, Woking, GU22 9BA
10am 4.30pm
Leisure Centre website Woking Centre mapResearch Area
This will be in the Main Hall this year and will provide a wide range of resources for research. Transcripts of the Parish Registers of West Surrey Poor Law Index, Surrey Monumental Inscriptions Indexes, Surrey Soldiers who died in WW1, the IGI and more will be available together with microfiche readers where needed. There will be a large selection from the Societys Reference Library to look at and will include Surrey items, London/Middlesex items (including the Victorian A-Z of London) and some that cover the whole country such as Phillimores Atlas of Parish registers. For those wanting to find out if anyone in the Society is researching the same name, the Members Interests files will be available, together with the Total Descent Charts. Volunteers will be on hand to give help and advice with these resources.Bring your research!
Specialist Help Desks
- Army Research Help Desk - Capt Graham Bandy (to be confirmed)
- Dating Old Photographs Help Desk - Bob Brock
- Scottish Research Help Desk - Dr Ian MacDonald
- Reading Old Documents Help Desk - Isabel Sullivan
- DNA and Genealogy Help Desk - Dr Brian Swann
- Canadian Research Help Desk - Penny Allen
- Census Detectives
Free Talks
| Talk | Speaker | Time |
|---|---|---|
| DNA and Ireland/Wales Migrations: Where are we today? |
Brian Swann | 11.00am 11.50am |
| Using Findmypast to uncover family stories | Myko Clelland | 12.05pm 12.55pm |
| How to care for your records | Jeff Dowse (SHC) | 1.10pm 2.00pm |
| What's new in FamilySearch | Don Inskeep | 2.15pm 2.55pm |
Family History Fair
The deadline for bookings has now passed and the following organisations have reserved tables:
AGRA Anglo-German FHS
*Berkshire FHS Buckinghamshire GS *Dorset FHS *East Surrey FHS *Essex Society for FHS *Hampshire Genealogical Society Hertfordshire FHS Kent FHS
London Westminster & Middlesex FHS *Manchester & Lancashire FHS *Southwark FHS Suffolk FHS
*Sussex FH Group *Victorian Military Society *West Middlesex FHS *Wiltshire FHS
*Army Medical Services Museum British Association for Local History Brookwood Cemetery Society Family & Community Historical Research Society
Friends of Woking Palace Heritage Walks *Imperial War Museum London FamilySearch Centre
*Send & Ripley History Society St Peter's Church, Old
Woking *Surrey Heath Local History Club *Surrey Heritage *Surrey
History Centre The Lightbox West Surrey National Trust Centre
Woking & District Philatelic Society *Woking Family Tree Project
Woking History Society
A M Punshon Bookzone C E Jones (Postcards and Books) CAB Search John Owen Smith
John Townsend (Books)
M M Publications Maxbal My History Parchment Oxford Ltd. R A
Longley Publications Surrey Postcard Club This Way Books &
Cassini Historical Maps
* Above, indicates societies or organisations bringing research material
For further information, please contact openday@wsfhs.org
To read the report about our very successful 2015 Open Day please Click Here