WSFHS SURREY FAMILY HISTORY FAIR
Our Next open day will be on:Saturday 8th November 2025
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 Society's 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 Phillimore's 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
- Census Detectives - Graham Walter & Heather Nowlan
- DNA - Brian Swann
- General Research - Sue Turner
- General, Irish, Poor Law and Children’s Records - Surrey History Centre - Jane Lewis
- Huguenot and Afro/Caribbean - Kathy Chater
Here to Help
| Talk | Speaker | Time |
|---|---|---|
| How to read Family Trees | Margaret Taylor | 10.30am-3.30pm |
| Where to begin | Margaret Rose | 10.30am-3.30pm |
| What's is a census? | Alan Taylor | 10.30am-3.30pm |
Family History Fair
The deadline for bookings has now passed and the following organisations have reserved tables:East Surrey FHS • FIBIS (The Families In British India Society) • GoONS (Guild of One Name Studies) • London Westminster and Middlesex FHS • Oxfordshire FHS • Shropshire FHS • Suffolk FHS • West Middlesex FHS • *Wiltshire FHS
AGRA (Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives) • Brookwood Cemetery Society • Camberley Heritage Centre • Charlotteville Jubilee Trust (The Spike Guildford) • Family and Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS) • Family History Federation • Heritage Walks • Surrey History Centre • Surrey Postcard Club • Woking U3A
Andy Punshon (Postcards and Photos) • Eve McLaughlin Guides, Books & Maps • P J Duncan Postcards • R A Longley Publications • The Crafty Genealogist • This Way Books and Cassini Historical Maps
* Above, indicates societies or organisations bringing research material
For further information, please contact fair@wsfhs.org
To read the report about our very successful 2024 Open Day please Click Here