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Welcome to the FFHS website

The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) is an educational charity which exists to represent, advise and support its membership of family history societies and other genealogical organisations world-wide.

Our principal aims are: to co-ordinate and assist the work of societies or other bodies interested in family history, genealogy and heraldry; to foster mutual co-operation and collaborative projects to help researches; and to represent the interests of our members, and family historians generally, especially in the preservation and availability of archival documents.

FFHS Awards

The FFHS will be announcing the winners of the Elizabeth Simpson Award given to the society whose journal has made the best contribution to family history during 2009 and the Best Web Award to the society with the best website at its General Meeting which will be held on Saturday September 18th in Bristol.

The FFHS are grateful to ABM Publishing, publishers of Family Tree & Practical Family History and Diamond Publishing, publishers of Family History Monthly who generously sponsor the awards.

NATIONAL BURIAL INDEX EDITION 3 IS HERE!

Over 18.4 million burial records taken from Anglican parish, non-conformist, Quaker, Roman Catholic and cemetery burial registers throughout England & Wales. The database on CD is fully searchable and results can be printed out or exported.

This site has a map and coverage tables, an order form and other information.

OR Click on GENfair image on this page and search on 'National Burial Index' to order through GENfair

What's New on this Site

Read our updated guide to Courses on Family History & Genealogy
Read about new books that might help you with your family history research
Find out about our new 'BMD at Sea' transcription project
New map and county coverage tables for the National Burial Index Edition 3

History of major additions to this site

Come and Meet the FFHS

The FFHS will be represented at:

The Bristol & Avon FHS Open Day on Saturday 18th September along with many other family history societies. For further details http://www.bafhs.org.uk/openday20101.htm
Creative Stitches and Hobbycraft Event at the Westpoint Centre, Exeter 23-26 September

* FFHS New Members *

The FFHS welcomes The Cape Town FHS as an Associate Member of the FFHS. For contact details along with contact details for all our member societies please see our Find A Society pages

Our Really Useful Information Leaflet

Why not download 'our really useful information leaflet' . As well as giving you lots of useful information perhaps you can help us by identifying the young lady in the cameo? Your chance to win £100 of merchandise from GENfair

Thinking of taking a course in Genealogy or Family History? Why not look at our page on Genealogy & Family History Courses

Not sure where to start your research? Then why not take a look at our Research Tips pages?

Link to this Site

We are very happy for you to provide a link to this site, and would invite you to use the approved website link logo. Feel free to download the image shown above to use as a link on your website. Simply right click on the image and choose to save it to disk. The image must not be altered or distorted in any way.

This image must only be used as a website link. If you need a logo for other purposes, such as in a leaflet or banner then you should first seek permission from The FFHS by emailing

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