West Middlesex Family History Society

Image of the month A very robust looking set of gates. This is St. Addrew's Gate, Uxbridge, the official entrance into RAF Uxbridge. The shields on the gates have now been removed since the closure of the RAF station, but the emblem of the RAF at the top is still there. Image from Wikimedia Commons.

Tip of the month I have recently been impressed by Ancestry's help in reading the USA census records. Many entries are very scrawled and hard to decipher, but the transcriptors no doubt became expert in reading each particular author's scrawl. Ancestry make it easy to see what the transcriptor made of each entry as you can hover over the handwriting and Ancestry then shows the transcriptors reading, field by field, and I found them better at reading the handwriting than I was.

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.