KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

CANTERBURY BRANCH WEBSITE

WELCOME TO OUR WEBSITE!

This site has been created to bring information about our meetings and activities to Members and Non-Members alike, plus information about the Canterbury district that may be of interest to anybody involved in the wonderful, educational (and sometimes downright frustrating!) experience that is Family History research. This site also contains links to useful Websites, especially those relating to the Garden of England

Please note that there will be no meeting in January 2010.

Our next meeting is 12th February 2010. The speaker is Peter Ewart, with 'Nor the Years Condemn: a look at some war memorials of Kent and East Sussex'.

Speakers programme up to June 2010 now listed on the Meetings page.

Coach trips to Kew, 2010

Meetings

Find details of venue, parking and speakers at the monthly Canterbury branch meetings.

Committee

Canterbury branch committee members.

Canterbury Churches

Go to this page for details of the churches where your ancestors were hatched, matched and dispatched, including availability of parish registers. 

Links

Family history websites relating to the UK and Kent.

Research Tips

New to family history? Unsure where to start? Find some tips and hints here, courtesy of the Federation of Family History Societies.

KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
29 The Mall, Faversham, Kent ME13 8JL
Tel./Fax 01 795 – 537 802
http://www.kfhs.org.uk
editor@kfhs.org.uk

  FAMILY HISTORY – The second most popular hobby in the world!

The Kent Family History Society was founded in 1974 in Canterbury, and is run entirely by volunteer members.

The society now has over 4,000 members worldwide and has six branches in east and west Kent who meet most months of the year in Ashford, Canterbury, Deal, Maidstone, Strood and Birchington. All members receive a copy of the society’s journal each March, June, September and December, which is packed full of information connected with family history.

A benefit of membership is the reduced price charged on the Society’s publications on Microfiche (over 2,100 published to date) and CD-ROM (currently 14 published to date).

Entry to the monthly meetings is also free to paid-up members.

Family membership is just £15.00 (includes £5.00 Joining fee) and thereafter at £10.00 per annum. (Fees current as of 01.03.07).

You can join on line via the KFHS ‘Online shop’ at www.kfhs.org.uk and pay by debit or credit card, or by post at Kent FHS, Dept ARM, 29 The Mall, Faversham, Kent ME13 8JL. (Please enclose an ssae).

Further information about the Kent Family History Society can be found at the society’s website or phone 01795 – 537802 for more information.

  Click Here for pictures of the branch 2008 outdoor meeting tour of Whitstable

Pictures from the June 2007 Outdoor Meeting Tour of Huguenot Canterbury

Click here if you have a quick question regarding your ancestral research in Canterbury. If the answer can be supplied by the branch without the need to conduct further research, we are happy to do so for free; if research in local archives is necessary to investigate the question, we will contact you first with a suggested fee. Please note that we are not in a position to carry out detailed family tree research; your best approach is to contact Canterbury Cathedral Archives for local professional researchers to contact.

I hope that this site will prove to be useful to anybody researching their ancestry in Canterbury.

David Wood, Branch Chairman (and Webmaster!)

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Site updated 17th December 2009