West Middlesex Family History Society

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Gazetteer for the Greater London area

This page is intended to help identify which of the family history societies that cover the London area has an interest in a particular place. Please type the name of the place in the box below and press the Search button.

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The search is not case-sensitive. Note also that the search will accept partial place names. For example, entering "sta" will return, among others, Staines, Stanmore and Stanwell, while "ham" will return Hampton, Fulham, Hammersmith, Laleham, etc. The columns of the table can be sorted by clicking on the name of the column. Church dedications (e.g. St Mary) are not indexed, except for the City of London and cases elsewhere for which they provide the principal names by which the parish is known (e.g. St Pancras).

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Notice Board

The Notice Board was last updated on 7th August 2025.

Next Meeting

Our next meeting is on Thursday 20th November 2025. The focus of the meeting will be a talk by Martin McDowell on 'Why do a Y-DNA test? ' Martin will be speaking on Zoom. Members may be remote or at St. John's.

Next Fair

Our next family history fair is the The Oxford Family History Fair to be held in Oxford on Saturday 25th October.

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Recent updates

17-Oct-2025

New image (and tip) of the month.

3-Oct-2025

Committee Minutes for September 2025 added to Members Area.

20-Sep-2025

New image of the month.

19-Sep-2025

The Handout notes for Linda Hammand's talk to us on 18th September have been added to the Talk Handouts page in the Members Area.

14-Sep-2025

Our printed Journal Exchange programme is ended, so page is now removed.

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