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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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