West Middlesex Family History Society

Image of the month This month we borrow the cover page of the December Journal, which displays this colourful helix design representing our DNA, the subject of much current interest among family history researchers. See also inside the December Journal for Yvonne Masson's article on My DNA Experience: so far".

Tip of the month Most of us researching into our family history will have made use of the search engine provided at FamilySearch, but do you wonder what is new on FamilySearch since you used it previously, ever a problem when doing family history research. For FamilySearch they do rather hide away the very considerable additions that are made to the site every month. To see what is new you have to go via their blog site. From this page you can subscribe to be informed of all new updates, or you can select the Categories tab, and then What's New at FamilySearch, where you will find links for all recent 'monthly record updates', where all the additions are neatly summarised for you by country.

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 St. John's Centre in Isleworth, 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.