WSFHS OPEN DAY AND FAMILY HISTORY FAIR
Our Next open day will be on:Saturday 4th November 2017
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)
- Canadian Research Help Desk - Penny Allen
- Census Detectives
- Dating Old Photographs Help Desk - Bob Brock
- DNA and Genealogy Help Desk - Dr Brian Swann
- Irish Research Help Desk - Ruth Mathewson
- Reading Old Documents Help Desk - Isabel Sullivan
- Scottish Research Help Desk - Dr Ian MacDonald
Free Talks
| Talk | Speaker | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Scottish Research | Dr Ian Macdonald | 11.00am - 11.50am |
| War Memorials Register and Lives of World War 1 | Catherine Long | 12.05pm - 12.55pm |
| Townies, Ancestors in small market towns | Dr Jane Howells | 1.10pm - 1.35pm |
| Going back in time: free resources for finding people, 13th to 18th centuries | Dr Gill Draper | 1.45pm - 2.10pm |
| Brickwalls | Mark Bayley | 2.25pm - 3.05pm |
Family History Fair
The deadline for bookings has now passed and the following organisations have reserved tables:AGRA *Anglo-German FHS *Anglo-Italian FHS *Berkshire FHS *Buckinghamshire FHS *Buckinghamshire GS *Dorset FHS *East Surrey FHS *Essex Society for FHS *Hampshire Genealogical Society Kent FHS London Westminster & Middlesex FHS *Suffolk FHS *Sussex FH Group West Middlesex FHS *Wiltshire FHS
British Association for Local History *Brookwood Cemetery Society Family & Community Historical Research Society Friends of Woking Palace Imperial War Museum St Peter's Church, Old Woking *Surrey Heath Museum *Surrey Heritage *Surrey History Centre The Lightbox West Surrey National Trust Centre *Woking & District Philatelic Society *Woking Family Tree Project Woking History Society Wonersh History Society
A M Punshon Bookzone CAB Search G R Postcards John Owen Smith Joshua Horgan Print & Design M M Publications Maxbal Merlin Genealogy Solutions Michael Goldsmith My History R A Longley Publications Shorncliffe Trust Soldier Research Services Surrey Postcard Club The Eureka Partnership The Genealogist The Victorian Military Society 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 2016 Open Day please Click Here