Other upcoming events
Saturday 26th March 10.00am
Family and Local History in the City
Family History Fair You do not need to register just turn up
Saturday 2nd April 2.00pm
Anglo Scottish FHS Meeting Annual Meeting followed by Members Heirlooms
Anglo Scots Branch Meeting
Wednesday 6th April 7.15pm
Finding Aunt Sarah -Zoom meeting
We are pleased to welcome one of our regular speakers Dr Alan Crosby. Reconstructing the family history of his grandma's best friend.
Wednesday 6th April 7.30pm
Finding Aunt Sarah - Live meeting
We are pleased to welcome one of our regular speakers Dr Alan Crosby. Reconstructing the family history of his grandma's best friend.
Saturday 9th April 2.00pm
Joseph Briggs and the Tiffany Glass Collection at the Haworth Art Gallery
HYBRID MEETING : a free talk, in Oldham Library, and simultaneously to an audience on zoom. Booking only necessary for zoom attendees.
Wednesday 4th May 7.15pm
Taking Care of the Past: Packaging and Handling Archives - LIVE Meeting
An examination of how the storage and handling of archival documents is vital for there preservation.
Unique resources for 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 3.2 million name references already and new data is being added all the time.
Our friendly Helpdesk is Open!
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 has reopened and sessions will be running Monday - Friday as usual, however we will be operating restricted sessions hours 11.00am - 2:30pm until December. Our Virtual Helpdesk is now for members only. Please Click Here for more information.
Visit our shop!
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.
* Occasionally a meeting may incur an additional charge, such as admission to a place of interest, payable by all attendees.
New Records
See at a glance the newest additions to our databases and documents collections.
Virtual Help
Our Virtual Helpdesk is still open but has now reverted to a privilege of membership.
MLFHS receives commission, at no cost to the user, on transactions completed using these links to affiliated organisations
[for more see Affiliate Links].
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.
