Woking Centre
Trinity Church, Brewery Road, Woking, GU21 4LH
For map click hereCo-ordinator Chris Leech
Email: woking@wsfhs.orgSecond Thursday in month
The doors will open at 7.45pm and the meeting will start at 7.50pm.
2025
| Date | Doors Open | Start Time | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu | 9 Oct | 7.45 pm | 7.50 pm | AGM IN LIEU | NO MEETING |
| Thu | 13 Nov | 7.45 pm | 7.50 pm | My WW1 and WW2 Ancestors | INFORMAL MEETING |
| Thu | 11 Dec | 7.45 pm | 7.50 pm | Crofts, Castles, Trades and Professions | Jane Lewis |
2026
| Date | Doors Open | Start Time | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu | 8 Jan | 7.45 pm | 7.50 pm | Follow the Money | Sue Turner |
| Thu | 12 Feb | 7.45 pm | 7.50 pm | Indexing Root and Branch | Informal Meeting |
| Thu | 12 Mar | 7.45 pm | 7.50 pm | A Romany Lifestyle | David Rose and Geoff Burch |
Forthcoming Meetings
October 9 2025
NO MEETING - AGM IN LIEUNovember 13
INFORMAL MEETING - My WW1 and WW2 AncestorsAn informal meeting following on from our talk in September, come and share about your ancestors from the world wars and what, if any, further information you have found about them. Bring your information on a memory stick, photographs or paper, just come and talk or enjoy listening to other's stories.
December 11
Jane Lewis - Crofts, Castles, Trades and ProfessionsExplore available resources that show what our ancestors did and how they earned their living. Learn how to use maps, local directories, rate books and more to explore the homes and places where your ancestors lived.
January 8 2026
Sue Turner - Follow the MoneyFor family trees Wills can provide a lot of information about relatives, confirming or refuting what has been found and sometimes including interesting snippets that require further investigation. Sue's talk will look at how Wills show the money flowing within and between a set of families not always related by marriage and also at the Wills of two spinsters which provided information about their families that could not have been found any other way.
February 12
Informal Meeting - Indexing Root and BranchAn opportunity to help with a project to index the names appearing in articles in Root and Branch over the years. Work has been done to extract the names from some magazines but checking is needed. This evening we hope to progress some of this checking which will be done in groups of two or three and should be very straightforward and hopefully enjoyable. An evening of practical help which aims to produce this index useful to those wanting to know if previous issues might have mention of names that could be relevant to their research.
March 12
David Rose and Geoff Burch - A Romany LifestyleA joint talk. Gypsies, travellers and itinerant workers in the local area in days gone by. Where they made their camps, their work on farms, market gardens, hop picking, their ways and traditions. Vintage pictures from David 's collection and personal details from Geoff, whose mother was born into a gypsy family in Old Woking in 1918. Geoff has traced this side of his family's history and has uncovered some fascinating stories of several generations of how and where they lived and worked, both at Chobham and in and around Old Woking.