Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society
Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society
Our Free Drop-in Helpdesk at Manchester Central Library is open to all from 10.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday
Join us and get access to our extensive databases. We specialise in indexing local resources which you will not find on other sites. How about virtually all the recorded memorials for Manchester's old churchyards? Or institutional records: Bolton Workhouse creed books, admissions to the schools for the blind and the deaf? Or the early motor vehicle registrations in Salford? There are hundreds of sources and over 3.2 million name references, and new data is being added all the time.
Our knowledgeable and experienced Helpdesk volunteers help people from all over the world – members and non-members – to begin or expand their family histories, whether their ancestors originated from the Greater Manchester area or elsewhere. The Helpdesk sessions run from Monday - Friday, 10.30am - 3:30pm. Helpdesk volunteers can also help you to access the vast repository of microfiche and microfilmed records.
Our Virtual Helpdesk remains open for members only. Please Click Here for more information.
Our MLFHS shop sells a large range of books, maps, CDs, downloads and books for recording your research.
We stock local Alan Godfrey maps, a wide range of books published by Neil Richardson, the ever-popular Ancestral File for recording your search in a practical way, and CDs or downloads of records and transcriptions of Catholic church registers, Presbyterian records, monumental inscriptions, Manchester police, Rolls of Honour and much more.
Latest: All MLFHS CDs/DVDs are now available as downloadable files.
The 1939 Register was designed to capture the details of every member of the civilian population on a specific date
Anglo Scottish FHS Branch Meeting
Annie Barlow and her family were instrumental in attracting wonderful Egyptian artefacts that we are so proud of today in our museum.
The History of Royton Hall, the families who owned it or lived there, its influence on the village/town and the archaeological dig 2005-07.
"The 1921 census is a landmark event for family historians, capturing life just after the trauma of the first world war. Find out how this census can help you to find a new generation of your family."
Discover more about our 3.3 million records and how to search them.
See at a glance the newest additions to our databases and documents collections.
Our Virtual Helpdesk is still open but has now reverted to a privilege of membership.
Share your research problems via our online forum with hundreds of members worldwide who are prepared to help with look-ups and solutions.
Want to help the Society? We need help to grow. Here’s what you can do as a volunteer in one of our projects or other areas of Society activity.
See how we encourage children and young people to discover their family history with guidance, supervision, support and research strategies and techniques.
Share your research, submit an article. Use our massive collection of back copies to learn from others how to knock down brickwalls, research obscure resources or overcome incomplete records.
Our shop sells CDs and DVDs of registers for numerous Roman Catholic churches in and around Manchester. Click below to search our index of over 800,000 names which appear on these disks.
We have indexed the names from over 900 war memorials in Greater Manchester. Search our free index for your ancestor. Find the memorials on which he appears - most of them with photographs.
MLFHS receives commission, at no cost to the user, on transactions completed using these links to affiliated organisations
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MANCHESTER & LANCASHIRE FHS was formed in 1964 and is now one of the largest family history societies in the world. Although the Society is united by a common interest in Genealogy and Family History, members also pursue interests in closely related fields.