West Middlesex Family History Society

Image of the month This is the cover from James Marshall's book, originally published in 1995, depicting the Gillette Building, one of several large buildings on the Brentford Golden Mile section of the road. Just recently James kindly donated a copy of his book to the Society, and we can all learn much more this May when James gives us his talk titled 'The Great West Road and Brentford Golden Mile'.

Tip of the month This is another tip concerning the ordering of birth and death certificates. Do you worry about mistyping the all important names and folio references when you put in your order? There is a failsafe way to do your ordering, at least for births up to 1918 and deaths up to 1957. Use the GRO website. Login and then go to 'GRO Indexes' rather than 'Place an Order'. Locate the entry you are interested in, select the item that you want, and you are taken to the ordering page with all the correct details filled in.

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.