The Family History Society of Cheshire

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

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  • Tameside Group programme change

    Our speaker has had to let us down because she has a funeral to attend. The nature of things means this is necessarily short notice, so I will be givng a talk and demonstration on Ancestry versus FindMyPast, including their latest additions: Th...
  • Event Canceled at Nantwich

    The talk on Diocesan Records for Family History at the Nantwich group due to take place on Tuesday the 22nd is canceled due to the weather as the speaker cannot get to us. The talk will be rescheduled in the future Sorry for the inconvenience ...
  • FHSC AGM & Members' Day Saturday 13th October

     Macclesfield Group and Mobberley Research Centre staff are looking forward to hosting thisday.  There will be refreshments available.  There are also shops nearby to purchase lunch if required.   Registration is from 9:15am....
  • Parish Registers

    http://www.fhsc.org.uk/files/Parish%20Registers.xls...
  • Beginner Class at Bebington

    6th October 09.45 - 13.00 The Bebington Group is running a half day class "A Beginners Guide to Family History" at Bebington Library. The topics covered will include: An introduction to Family History; Civil Registration; Census Records and a bri...
  • Library Closures in Tameside

     Please see my latest newsletter on the Tameside Group Noticeboard.  Although I am naturally sad about potential closures of several branch ibraries, my main concern is the proposed two day closure of the excellent *four star* rated  Local ...
  • July Newsletter

      Library  Closures Consultation:  I am inviting everyone to give their views on the proposed library closures, currently there are three proposals: 1.     To only have two main centres of excellence at Hyde and As...
  • Letter of Thanks for donation to Christies

     Please see the letter below received with thanks from Christies for our donation in memory of Joan Bowers. click here...
  • Tameside Trip to Mobberley 14 June

     Very many thanks to Joan Irving, Dennis Whyte and Peter Davenport for the reception and help they gave to our Tameside Group yesterday.  I didn't catch the names of the other volunteers on the day, but thanks for the very welcome tea and biscui...
  • Alsager July Meeting

     Under 'Future Meetings' it states:- "18th July Warrington Coroner's Court - Alsager Group visit". The date is wrong, it should be 16th July.  Which is the 3rd Monday in the month.  We are due at the Coroner's Court at 3pm. So...
  • University of Central Lancashire Local and family History Fair

    This year sees the once-in-a-generation celebration of Preston Guild which has been run since 1179. As part of the celebrations, on 23 June the University of Central Lancashire’s Institute of Local and Family History will be staging a History Fair in th...
  • May Newsletter

     Tameside Local History Forum I would like to thank everyone who helped me at our Open Days at Newton Hall this weekend, Anita, Lynette, Pat, Florence and Marion http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/newtonhall2012.htm.  Photographs of the Arc...
  • April Newsletter

     Tameside Family History Website: Pages on Researching in Tameside have been up-dated: tamesidefamilyhistory.co.uk/contents.htm ·      Civil Registration ·      Census Returns · ...
  • Research Information Guides

    All our Research Guides have been up-dated 24 August 2012.  There is a section here for total beginners and another for the more experienced.  I am sure everyone will find some very useful information here to help you with your Family History Re...
  • Chester Record Office New Opening Hours

    Since November last year, many of our most popular family history records have been available online through our licence agreement with Find My Past. As we expected, this has had an impact on the number of visitors to the Searchroom. At the same...
  • March 2012 Newsletter

     Tameside’s BMD Project: Replaced 32,670 for Denton, registers at Tameside (1837-1937) to add mother's maiden name.  The next to come on-line this year will be Audenshaw and Ashton Town.  When these two sub districts are added the majorit...
  • March Newsletter

     Tameside’s BMD Project: Replaced 32,670 for Denton, registers at Tameside (1837-1937) to add mother's maiden name.  The next to come on-line this year will be Audenshaw and Ashton Town.  When these two sub districts are added the majorit...
  • Macclesfield Computer Group - March Meeting Rescheduled

    The March meeting of the Macclesfield Computer Group will now take place on Thursday the 22nd March at our usual venue - St John's. The topic will be Email. Click here for details. If you have any questions/problems for the Q&A session, email them...
  • January 2012 Newsletter

     New at Find My Past:  please note the final column of the 1911 census is now revealed – sadly I haven’t found anything extra about my relatives.  FMP can produce too many results when you have a fairly common name and the search result...
  • December 2011 Newsletter

     New at Find My Past: From January have a look at all your 1911 census images again on find my past since all the white redaction in the final column will be removed. ...