KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

CANTERBURY BRANCH WEBSITE

Welcome to our Website!

See below for important information regarding Canterbury Cathedral Archives in 2012.
(updated 14th February 2012)

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.

Our next meeting is Friday, 11th May 2012 

Our speaker is Toni Mount, on 'Medieval Housewives'.

Speakers' programme is now listed up to May 2013 on the Meetings page.

Trip to The British Library Newspaper Archive, Colindale and RAF Museum, Hendon.

28th August 2012- Tickets £20 on sale Now!.

For more details, please click here.

Canterbury Cathedral Archives- Important news for researchers

From the 31st January 2012, the Archives will be closed until Autumn 2012, owing to urgent repairs required to the roof. The microfilms of parish registers, bishops' transcripts and East Kent wills are now available at the Special Collections Department, Templeman Library, University of Kent. The Department has three film readers, which must be booked in advance to use on a half-day basis. Bookings can be made by calling 01227 827609, or emailing specialcollections@kent.ac.uk

 The Local Studies room at Canterbury Library is also currently closed whilst refurbishment takes place; this facility is due to re-open in September 2012.

 

  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 on its reopening in Autumn 2012 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 18th April 2012