West Middlesex Family History Society

Image of the month This is Hounslow's Men's Shed. The chapel and mortuary of Isleworth Cemetery needed repair, and the UK Men's Shed Association applied to take over the chapel and turn it into a community workshop which has proved beneficial all round. Hounslow Cemetery is our last completed set of Memrial Inscriptions, with some 2,500 MIs recorded. The MIs can be searched from this page. this page. The whole book of inscriptions can be found in our Digital Library.

Tip of the month If you are mainly a Findmypast user like myself, then the announcement that Ancestry was to include the 1921 census results as from 6th January was not particularly exciting news, but for Ancestry users this is a major addition to their census collections.

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.