| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Group email: | Family and Social History group |
| When: | Monthly on Friday afternoons 2:00 pm 1st in month |
| Venue: | Member's Home |
| Cost: | Contribution to cover refreshments each meeting |
Purpose: We are a small, friendly group who help each other to research our family history and social aspects, using various resources including online archives. Email the Group Admin via the Group email above.
We meet on the 1st Friday in the month, from 2pm to approximately 4pm.
Venue: We meet in the home of one of our members in Hassocks. We contribute a small donation to cover refreshments, each meeting.
Resources:
Click on the coloured text to open the document and then you can download it.
-Personal Software to store your records on your laptop. Family Historian (British owned £50 plus) and Family Tree Maker ( Ukrainian owned - £60 plus)
- Getting Started in my Search The BBC has free record sheets to download plus advice. Google BBC Genealogy, it will take you to the History section.
- Free Research Services (1) and FRS (2) available online.
- Buying a BDM (Birth, Death or Marriage) certificate? Use the official website at gro.gov.uk as others will charge extra as commission!
- Adoption search information. Note these are only available from 1926.
- Using the Census and Electoral Rolls.
- Marriage Records and Marriage Rules -who can marry whom.
- Burials, Death Registration and Wills.
- Parish Records (1)and Parish (2), Poor Laws, Criminal and Asylum Research.
- Overseas Research and India Office.
- Ag Labs Agricultural Labourer Research sheets.
- Sources for Military Records from WW1 and 2 and WW2 Research.
If no link is shown please ask the group members for help.
- The WSCC Library Service's Local History website www.westsussexpast.co.uk has local research available plus 12 local newspapers. They also provide free hourly access to Ancestry and Find My Past to library members including the 1921 census.
- Searching for a Will? Use the government .gov.uk site. Information on using the probate site is here.
a) A copy of the My Genealogical Will to Preserve My Family History form can be downloaded from the link on this page.
b) Using GEDCOM Files advice document to transfer family tree details between software programmes.
c) Help is available with an individual's genealogical problems. Just ask.
d) Old London Street Names, can be found at :
www.maps.the hunthouse.com/Streets/New to Old Abolished London Street Names.htm
e) Some group members have CDs of records for the parishes of Keymer and Clayton.