Welcome to FamilyHistoryWA's Blog

Thank you to everyone who attended our recent June meeting. We held a very successful Brick

LSEW Group Meeting March 2023

Thank you to all who attended our recent March meeting. We had a good attendance

Thank you to all who attended our recent December meeting. 

Robert Holloway gave a talk about his recently self-published family history book.

Addtiionally we had a brief look at the records available to download from The National Archives UK.

Using our recently updated London Guide, Peter Hamersley took us through some really useful resources to help us with our London research. 

These resources and more, are available to download from the County Guides section of this page.

Geoff Barber presented a really interesting talk on 17th Century tokens.  Geoff's presentation incuded a look at his own personal collection of these trading tokens, mostly associated with Sussex and Kent.

We held a very informative workshop style session to help members with several research queries.

Mal Parr gave us an interesting and entertaining look at old photographs of London.

Peter Hamersley gave a presentation on 19th century UK Merchant Shipping records.