The Family History Society of Cheshire

...a helping hand in Cheshire Genealogy Registered Charity No. 515168

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The Family History Society of Cheshire

Northwich Family History Fair

 Our Fourteenth Annual Fair at Northwich Memorial Hall, Saturday 18th February between 10.am-4.00pm.
Stalls and Displays, Second-hand Books, CD and Book Sales, Demonstrations, Help Desk.  Come and meet our Groups:

Northwich Memorial Hall, Chester Way CW9 5QJ - free parking adjacent to the venue.
click here to download a flyer clickhere for A4 poster
Last Updated on Friday, 13 January 2012 22:34
 

Lecture Direct from Salt Lake City

 4550 Mile Genealogy Lecture without leaving Macclesfield

I have just participated in a brilliant long distance lecture on the benefits of the latest version of the FAMILYSEARCH search engine, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Victoria Road Macclesfield. (The LDS Church offered their facilities because our normal venue lacks an adequate Broadband connection.)

I was only just on time but the Car Park was totally full and I had to park on the roadside so on entering the hall it was no surprise to find the audience was slightly swelled from our usual numbers, a later head count established that 71 bodies had ventured out on a cold wet Autumn evening.

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Ten Reasons To Join

 1. You will receive our quarterly ‘Award Winning’ magazine the Cheshire Ancestor packed full of articles, forthcoming events, reports from our groups, and our in-house computer supplementNet that Serf.

  2. Access to growing members only content via our prize winning website eg, research guides and information, and surnames being researched by other member.

  3. Two well-resourced research centres at Mobberrley and Crewe Library which both have substantial holdings of parish registers on film, monumental inscriptions, CD/DVDs, fiche and books.

  
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:45 Read more...
 

New Research Resources

 For all our members please log in and take a new look at our Research Resources

All the census indexes for the various areas in  Cheshire  1841-1901 which were indexed by our society have now been uploaded together with a guide to finding Cheshire places in the UK Census 1841-1901 with film references at Chester RO and The National Archives. You could find that elusive ancestor which may have been missed by online websites.

There are a series of  Research Guides about key topics in family history,  two important Visitations of Cheshire for 1580 and 1613 and a guide to finding indexes to Monumental Inscriptions in our area.

If you are having problems logging in there is a separate article further down the page to help you.
Last Updated on Friday, 08 July 2011 18:29
 

Cheshire Surnames Directory

The Cheshire Surnames Directory was popular with researchers untils it demise some time ago after intensive activity from hackers.

I am happy to say that it is now back on air in a much improved format at:

http://surnames.fhscheshire.org.uk

Last Updated on Friday, 08 July 2011 18:10 Read more...
 

Alan Godfrey Series of Maps

 Here is our latest list of Alan Godfrey maps for sale - click here  Maps cost £2.50 each plus £1 postage contact David Johnson: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 September 2011 08:05
 

ALTRINCHAM GROUP

Please read the article on the Group Noticeboard about the Proposal to dissolve
 

Wirral Archives Programme for 2012

 Click to download the leaflet advertising the workshops to be held by Wirral Archives Service for next year. As you can see they have been moved to Thursday afternoons, owing to staffing concerns, but as before copies of the notes can be e-mailed to those who are unable to attend.
Also please click here to download the latest Wirral Archives Newsletter

Last Updated on Friday, 13 January 2012 21:59 Read more...
 

St Chad's Church Wybunbury (old churchyard) Monumental Inscriptions


Crewe Group have this new publication by Lancon Publishing for sale.
The publication is in paper format cost £14   + £ 4 p&p UK.  +£6 p+p rest of Europe. 
+£10.50 p+p rest of World
A high quality product which includes a graveyard plan. CD version will be available
at a later date.
Available by post from Mrs M Spate[group Leader], FHSC - Crewe Group, c/o Crewe Library,
Prince Albert Street, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 2DH. or purchase from Family History Unit in Crewe Library.

Last Updated on Monday, 17 October 2011 18:18
 

Any Members having Problems Logging In?

There is more to see here if you are a member of our Society – some areas are only available to members, but you may be having problems logging in.

Our new website was launched in November 2008 and at that time anyone with a known email address was sent their individual log in details, and for new members these are automatically generated and sent to you by email. However, we all forget our passwords at times and forget to tell people when we change our email addresses. In order to log in our society MUST have your current email address, so if you have changed addresses recently or have never told us before please get in touch with Maurice Stokes via: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

If anyone with a known email address is having problems remembering their user names of passwords click on Frequently Asked Questions in the left-hand main menu, where you should find a solution - it you are still having problems please contact our webmasters via: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 09 July 2011 10:10
 

FHSC Toolbar

Have you seen the web-browser toolbar provided by MLFHS?

Did you ever think why dont we have one? Well now we do!!!!!!!

It will work if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox on Windows. If you have an Apple Mac then it only works with Safari.

You can download it here or from the new main menu item or from the banner at the bottom of the page. The banner is nice as it shows you how the toolbar looks.

Please download and use it as each use generates income for the society, not a lot but we like it.

Once you have it installed any new content will be automatically installed, so no need to re-install.
If you have any ideas for further content then let us know at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Last Updated on Friday, 08 July 2011 18:49
 

Dukinfield Group Name Change

 It was agreed at our AGM 14 September 2011 to change our name to the Tameside Group of the Family History Society of Cheshire.  Minutes, and Reports were circulated prior to the meeting.  I had three emails from people who couldn't attend agreeing to the proposal.  On the night 27 people attended and the vote was unanimous apart from three abstentions..

 

Sad Closure of Stockton Heath Group

Dear All
I  am sorry to have to announce that the Stockton Heath Group of the FHSC has closed following our monthly meeting yesterday. The closure became inevitable folowing the resignation of the current committee at our AGM last month. We gave another month to see if any volunteers came forward but unfortunately there was insufficient interest.

The formal winding up will occur at the next quarterly meeting as per the announcement re the Altrincham Group.

It is expected that a core group of members will form an informal group interested in local and family history.

It has been decided that although the group has officially folded we will still hold our Christmas party on December 19th 2011 to which all members of the group (past and present) are invited.

Kindest regards
Alan (Group Leader)

 

 
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