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
 Speakers for
October 2008 to March 2009 are now listed on the Meetings
page.
| 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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Thanet Branch Coach Trip to Kew
Thanet Branch are running a coach to the National
Archives at Kew on Thursday, 27th November.
The cost is £15 per person. Anybody interested in
going should contact the Thanet Branch Treasurer, Pat Cole, on 01843
842933 to ensure a seat is available. A cheque made out to "K.F.H.S.
Thanet Group" should then be sent to Pat at: 10 Wilbrough Road,
Birchington, Kent CT7 9DY.
Thanet are also considering to run a trip in 2009
to London, for people to visit the London Metropolitan Archives, Society
of Genealogists, First Avenue House (will indexes), etc. If you are
interested, please give Pat a call, as they need at least 20 people to
make it viable.
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Harold Gough (left) with former Branch Chairman Derek
Drury. |
Harold Eric Gough
The memorial
service for Harold, who died on the 2nd of June, was held on
Saturday, the 26th July, at 3pm, at Christchurch, Herne Bay . Donations, payable to either
Herne Mill or to Herne Bay Historical Records Society, can be sent c/o
A. Welch and Sons Ltd, 94 Station Road, Herne Bay, Kent CT6 5QB.
On behalf of all our members, we send our
condolences to Harold's wife Anne, and to all his family. |
KENT
FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
29 The Mall, Faversham, Kent ME13 8JL
Tel./Fax 01 795 – 537 802
http://www.kfhs.org.uk
chairman@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 01 795 – 537 802 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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