Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society
Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society
Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society
Owing to the coronavirus pandemic, our society meetings and helpdesk services are now online and we continue to welcome new members.
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 2.8 million name references already 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. Sadly, owing to the coronavirus lockdown we have to be closed but CLICK HERE to find out about our Virtual Help Desk
Our MLFHS shop sells a large range of books, maps, CDs, downloads and books for recordsing your research. We stock all the 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 and more.
The shop is open! Our dedicated team work from home so occasionally there might be a slight delay, but otherwise it is business as usual.
A practical guide to help you get the most out of your Irish research
Denise will explain how newspapers can help you with your research.
"A Gartside sent to Van Diemen's Land ... Man's Inhumanity to Man”
Anglo Scottish FHS Meeting
This talk will explain how Quakers worship and what they believe.
Discover more about our 2.8 million records and how to search them.
See at a glance the newest additions to our databases and documents collections.
Our Helpdesk is still open but has moved online during the present restrictions
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.
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.