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
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NEW
VENUE for meetings from January 2009- Kendall Hall, Nunnery Fields, Canterbury.
Full details and map on the Meetings page.
Next Meeting 10th July- Lady Mary
Teviot, 'I Never Thought of That: A Second Look at Problems'.
Speakers programme up to December 2009 now listed on the Meetings
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| 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.
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 New
Canterbury Branch Coach Trip
'3 Outings
in 1 to London'
Thursday 1st October 2009
Drop-offs
at 3 places in London: Greenwich, Lambeth or Southwark.
For
full details, click Here.
Bookings
and further details contact: Tricia Baxter
,
Canterbury Branch Secretary
2
Stanmore
Court
Canterbury
CT1 3DS
.
Tel: 01227 453576 or
e-mail
Thanet Branch Coach Trip to Central
London
Thursday, 25th June 2009.
This trip is ideal for those wishing to access the Society of
Genealogists, London Metropolitan Archives, the Probate Search rooms at
First Avenue House, and, by public transport, Westminster Archives Centre.
Please note that the Guildhall Library is closed for refurbishment until
the end of 2009, but City of London parish records are now available at
the LMA.
Price- £18 per person. Cheques payable to "KFHS
Thanet". Pick-up points in Thanet,
plus; opposite Homebase in Herne Bay; the Long Reach in Whitstable; and
Farthing Corner services.
Bookings to: Pat Cole (Thanet
Committee)
10 Wilbrough Road,
Birchington, CT7 9DY.
Tel: 01843 842933
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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.
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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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