West Middlesex Family History Society

Image of the month St. Margaret's Church, Uxbridge, including the Old Burial Ground, Uxbridge are the latest in our collection of Memorial Inscriptions. The records may be searched by members from our Memorial Inscriptions Search page, and the book itself may be downloaded from our Digital Library page.

Tip of the month Many of us use FreeBMD, but are you aware just how flexible their search engine is? We all know that you can search for forenames starting Robert by entering Robert, or just Rob for the forename, but did you know that entering +Robert or +Rob will also find someone where their second or third name is Robert? Age/DOB is also a versatile field. Entering 60-70 will find someone's death when they are aged between 60 and 70, or 1910-1915 will find their death in any of the years 1910-1915. It's all in their Help pages.

Our aims
The Society aims to encourage and assist those involved in the study of family history and genealogy in the western part of the ancient English county of Middlesex. See also our Objectives page.

Using this website
The website contains much information about the Society, and provides general assistance in providing links to other websites of use to family historians. You may explore the site using the menus above, including to use the Sitemap, where you can see all our pages at a glance.

For example under Research and Indexes you will find pages which tell you which members of the Society hold some of our special assets, Parish Registers, Indexes relating to Places, and other General Indexes.

New members
We are always keen to welcome new members. Benefits of membership include attending our monthly meetings at Montague Hall in Hounslow, where you can meet like-minded souls, many of whom have been enjoying this hobby for a long while. You will also receive a copy of our Quarterly Journal. Joining instructions may be found on our How to join the Society page. Attending our meetings is free, and you may come as a guest just to see what goes on, if you wish. Cost of membership is a modest £15 per annum.