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
Do you have questions like How do I read a Family Tree? Where do I begin my Family History? or What is a Census? Margaret Rose, Margaret Taylor and Alan Taylor will be available from 10.30am to 3.30pm to answer your questions.Family History Fair
The deadline for bookings has now passed but if you want to book or would like an extra table, then please let us know at fair@wsfhs.org and we will try and fit you in.At present the following Societies and Organisations have reserved tables:
AGRA (Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives)
Andy Punshon (Postcards and Photos)
Brookwood Cemetery Society
Camberley Heritage Centre
Charlotteville Jubilee Trust (The Spike Guildford)
East Surrey FHS
Eve McLaughlin Guides, Books & Maps
FIBIS (The Families In British India Society)
Family History Federation
Family and Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS)
GoONS (Guild of One Name Studies)
Heritage Walks
London Westminster and Middlesex FHS
Oxfordshire FHS
P J Duncan Postcards
R A Longley Publications
Shropshire FHS
Suffolk FHS
Surrey History Centre
Surrey Postcard Club
The Crafty Genealogist
This Way Books and Cassini Historical Maps
West Middlesex FHS
Wiltshire FHS
Woking U3A
For further information, please contact fair@wsfhs.org