UK Family History Society links
The FFHS was founded in 1974 and is a very useful site if you are considering becoming a member of a Family History Society either local to you or another county, national and even some overseas. It offers you a very comprehensive search option to find a link to any of the societies you may be interested in.
We feature some below that have mutual reciprocal links back to our website so genealogists have more easy access to these sites. If you would like your society to have a link and feature Family Tree Folk for your members on your site - please email mike@familytreefolk.co.uk
The society was formed in 1987 and is for all those who are interested in genealogy and family history. Our members include people who live locally, in and around the area of Kirklees and Huddersfield, but also nationally and around the world.
The Cumbria Family History Society was founded in October 1976 to help Cumbrians, and people with Cumbrian ancestry, to carry out their family history researches. Our area of interest is the modern county of Cumbria, which consists of the whole of the pre-1974 counties of Cumberland and Westmorland, together with the part of Lancashire lying to the north of Morecambe Bay (North Lonsdale) and the West Riding parish of Sedbergh. Our membership comes not only from Cumbria and other parts of the British Isles, but from Australia, New Zealand, the United States - in fact worldwide.
One of the largest and most successful of Scotland's Family History Societies is the Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society, based in King Street, Aberdeen. Since its foundation in 1978, ANESFHS has recruited over 18,000 members, many of them abroad.
In a relaxed, friendly environment, researchers can view source documents not available on the Internet, browse through over 5,500 books and maps in the library and, of course, have a chat with the Centre’s knowledgeable staff and other members.
Microfiche and microfilm readers and networked computers are used to view births, baptisms and marriages in the pre-1855 Old Parish Registers (OPRs), the supplementary International Genealogical Indexes (IGIs), and the censuses for 1841-1901 for the whole of Scotland.
Rotherham Family History Society was formed in 1983 and now has a membership of over 400 local, national and International members. The Rotherham Family History Society was formed to bring together the Family History Community in Rotherham and the surrounding area and offers a forum and marketplace, which gives its members the opportunity to meet other like minded people in a friendly atmosphere conducive to the furtherment of their Geneological interests.
Rotherham FHS has a wide range of indexed parish records (baptisms, marriages, burials and monumental inscriptions published on CD and these are available at their online shop. The Society is also building a photo archive of the local area and has transcribed census and school records.
The Society was founded in 1981 and has a growing membership of over 2600 throughout the world. The Society's aim is to encourage the study of family history, including both Wiltshire ancestry of people world-wide and world-wide ancestry of Wiltshire residents. It aims to provide contacts between members by regular meetings and through the quarterly journal published in January, April, July and October. Members not only research their ancestors by name but, by using all available information, seek to build up a complete picture of the people in the setting in which they lived. As the Society consists of a friendly mixture of complete beginners and experienced family historians there is every opportunity for beginners to receive encouragement in their researches.
Hastings and Rother Family History Society was formed in 1986, with just six members, to assist and encourage the study and research of Family History particularly in the history rich area of Hastings and Rother. Today it has a worldwide membership of over 300 and is a member of the Federation of Family History Societies (Registered Charity No. 298438).
The Family History Society of Cheshire (FHSC) was founded in 1969 to advance the study of family history and genealogy, and we now have around 3000 members worldwide. As well as helping people with ancestors in Cheshire, we also assist members living locally whose ancestors originated elsewhere. There are now seventeen Groups based throughout the county, and the number is growing. Each group arranges its own programme of meetings and activities, and members of the Society are welcome to attend the meetings of any group. We also hold open days for all members at various venues throughout Cheshire
The Society was formed in 1994 to fulfill a growing need and to promote and encourage the study of family history, genealogy and local history in relation to the City of Coventry and its environs. It is flourishing by providing help and support to a growing number of people researching their Coventry ancestors, or ancestors of those who moved to Coventry from various parts of the country. As the family history movement generally expands it becomes easier to carry out research from a distance but the most information is obtainable from local sources. To support people, who do not live local to Coventry, the Society now offers postal search facilities.
The NNWFHS started life as the Nuneaton Family History Group. Because of our rapidly increasing membership and the family interests that many of our members have in North Warwickshire we expanded our area and changed our name to reflect this in April 1998. NNWFHS is also a member of the Federation of Family History Societies.
Devon FHS celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006, expanding from 4 founder members based in a home in Plymouth to 5,500 members worldwide, which makes it one of the largest in the UK. The Devon Family Historian is its quarterly journal and as well as useful articles, each edition includes names being researched by new members. The Society has produced a large number of indexes and transcriptions which can be ordered and delivered via the website and paid for online. The Society is a member of the Federation of Family History Societies and SWAG, the South West Area Group of FHSs, a regional group of 12 societies. | 
