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An online calendar of GENealogical EVents and Activities

This calendar is being run jointly on behalf of GENUKI and the Federation of Family History Societies. Event organisers are encouraged to check this calendar when picking a date to avoid clashes with other events in the same area. They are also encouraged to submit an entry for this calendar as soon as a date has been booked so that other organisers know about it and can try to avoid it.
Please note that this calendar depends on your Family History Society submitting its events as well as you reading it. If your society's events are not listed, please complain to them rather than to me. If the calendar does not link to any further details, please don't ask me for further information - because I don't have any.
At the end of this page you'll find some other groups' event lists and how to submit events to GENEVA.

The venue area codes are (mostly) the usual Chapman County Codes extended to the rest of the world as per the GRD usage. Where it seems more helpful, London postcode prefixes and other variants may be used.

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May 8 SoG, LND Beginners Skills Course 11 Wills, other Probate Documents & Reading Old Handwriting
May 10 Huddersfield, WRY Family and Local History Fair
May 10 Canterbury, KEN Reading Old Documents
May 10 SoG, LND Using Legacy Software
May 10 SoG, LND Off the Beaten Track: Tracing Ancestors in Cornwall
May 10 London, LND Guild Palaeography Seminar: London Metropolitan Archives
May 10 Wokingham, BRK 'Making the Connection' - how to get more from your Family History
May 14 ONLINE TNA Catalogue - Finding People (In Association with TNA)
May 14 SoG, LND Tracing the Lives of Professionals
May 14 Horley, SRY Family History using the Internet workshop at Horley Library
May 15 SoG, LND Beginners Skills Course 12 Wills,Probate Documents & Reading Old Handwriting pt2
May 17 SoG, LND Open Day with Free Beginner's Lectures
May 17 Caterham, SRY Free drop-in family history advice session at Caterham Valley Library
May 18 Maidstone, KEN The Kent Family History Fair
May 20 Camberley, SRY Family History using the Internet workshop at Camberley Library
May 21 SoG, LND License to Marry
May 22 SoG, LND Family Historian Software - Advanced
May 22 SoG, LND Beginners Skills Course 13 - First Steps at Kew
May 22 ONLINE Ireland: A Practical Approach to Family History
May 24 SoG, LND Writing up your Family History
May 24-26 Brighton, SXE Botting family world reunion
May 28 SoG, LND Library Tour
May 28 SoG, LND Local History Ressources for Family Historians
May 29 SoG, LND Hyde Park Family History Centre (visit)
May 29 SoG, LND Beginners Skills Course 14 - The Armed Forces
May 30 Woking, SRY Family History advice sessions at Surrey History Centre
May 31 SoG, LND Palaeography for Improvers
 
June 4 SoG, LND Using the Society of Genealogists Library
June 4 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Bigamist
June 4 Staines, MDX Family History using the Internet workshop at Staines Library
June 4 Northallerton, NYK Ancestry in the Archives
June 5 SoG, LND Beginners Skills Course 15) - Family History in Practice
June 7 Sunderland, TWR Sunderland History Fair
June 7 SoG, LND London Cemeteries
June 7 Shrewsbury, SAL Shropshire Family History Society's Open Day
June 7 Coventry, WAR Coventry FHS Open Day
June 7 & 14 Southport, MSY General Register Office Open Days 2008
June 9 ONLINE All you ever wanted to know about Civil Registration 1837 - 2005
June 11 SoG, LND Non-Combatants and Others - The Home Front During the Great War
June 12 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Huguenot
June 14 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Civil Servant
June 14 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Bastard
June 14 Cwmbran, MON Gwent FHS Open Day at County Hall, Croesyceilliog
June 7 & 14 Southport, MSY General Register Office Open Days 2008
June 14-15 Styal, CHS Heritage Open Day with Family History display, research, advice and resources
June 15 Milton Keynes, BKM The Home Counties Family History Show
Note one day only, not 14&15 as originally posted here.
June 16 SoG, LND Using Pay-Per-View Websites
June 9 ONLINE Note date is 9 June, not 17 as previously listed.
All you ever wanted to know about Civil Registration 1837 - 2005
June 17 ONLINE Planting the Tree: Foundations for your English & Welsh Family History
June 18 SoG, LND Immigration: The British in Patagonia
June 20 Poole, DOR Workshop: Life in the Big House
June 21 Trowbridge, WIL Wiltshire Family History Society Open Day
June 21 Exeter, DEV Summer Special
June 24 ONLINE Victorian Households: Links from the Census
June 25 SoG, LND Society of Genealogists Databases Online
June 25 SoG, LND London Administrative Boundaries for Family HIstorians
June 26 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Beginners
June 27 Egham, SRY Free drop-in family history advice session at Egham Library
June 28 York, YKS Yorkshire Family History Fair
June 28 SoG, LND Off the Beaten Track: Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmoreland & Cheshire
June 28 SoG, LND Pauper Palaces: Records of the Poor post 1834
June 28 Kerry, MGY Kerry Open Morning Summer 2008
June 30-4 July Canterbury, KEN Tracing Your Family History
 
July 1 Farnham, SRY Family History using the Internet workshop at Farnham Library
July 3 SoG, LND Manorial Records
July 5 Leeds, WRY "Death and Taxes" Day School
July 5 SoG, LND Tracing Caribbean Roots
July 7 SoG, LND Scared of Mouse? The Next Step
July 11 Poole, DOR Workshop: Dorset Ancestry
July 12 Swansea, GLA GFHS Open Day - The Waterside Musuem
July 12 SoG, LND Maps for Family Historians
July 12-13 Radley, Abingdon, OXF Exhibition on the history of Radley CE Primary School
July 16 SoG, LND Family Historian Software practical
July 19 SoG, LND DNA tests & Heredity for Family Historians
July 19 SoG, LND London's East End & The Cockney Language
July 19 Chichester, SSX Seminar on Family History
July 22 Ash, SRY Free drop-in family history advice session at Ash Library
July 23 SoG, LND Our Women Ancestors - Tracing Female Lines
July 26 SoG, LND London Repositories for Family Historians
July 30 SoG, LND History of Islington through Photographs
 
August 2 SoG, LND All you need to know about the Census
August 7-9 Long Beach, CA, USA Event cancelled -- Sail Into Your Past Aboard The Queen Mary!
August 9 SoG, LND Careers in Genealogy: The Road to AGRA & Running a Genealogical Practice
August 9 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Blacksmith
August 9 Durham, DUR Guild Hands-on Practical Computer Seminar: Durham University
August 16 SoG, LND Off the Beaten Track: Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire & Derbyshire
August 16 SoG, LND My Ancestor was in the Army - Workshop
August 18 SoG, LND Genealogy from your Armchair: What's Free Online
August 20 SoG, LND The Elephant & Castle
August 23 SoG, LND Using the India Office Library
August 23 SoG, LND Home Office Certified Industrial Schools 1857-1933
August 27 SoG, LND Village Crafts
August 29-31 Colchester, ESS Joint Essex Soc. for FH & Suffolk FHS Residential FH Conference The Way We Were
August 30 SoG, LND The National Archives for Family History
 
September 3 SoG, LND The Huntley Film Archives: Local & Social History around Britain
September 4 SoG, LND Intermediate Skills course 1 ( lectures, 18 weeks)
September 6 SoG, LND Finding your way around a County Record Office
September 6 SoG, LND Family Tree Maker Software Practical
September 6-13 Angus & Dundee, ANS Angus & Dundee Roots Festival
September 11 ONLINE Second Stages in English Research
September 13 Gateshead, NBL The National Family History Fair
September 13 SoG, LND Learn about your Ancestors from Paintings and Photos 1700-1950 Workshop
September 13 SoG, LND Off the Beaten Track: Hereford, Gloucestershire & Worcestershire- Chartists & Mormons
September 15 SoG, LND Open Day
September 17 ONLINE US Immigration and Naturalization Records: Keys to Ancestral Origins
September 17 SoG, LND Records of Nonconformity for Family Historians
September 18 SoG, LND The Guildhall Library (visit)
September 20 Kidlington, OXF Oxfordshire FHS Open Day
September 20 Malton, NRY Malton Family History Fair
September 20 Canterbury, KEN Heraldry for Family Historians
September 20 SoG, LND Records for One-Name Studies - sponsored by the Halsted Trust
September 21 Horndean, HAM Hampshire Genealogical Society Open Day
September 24 SoG, LND How to get the best from FamilySearch
September 24 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Prisoner Of War
September 26 Poole, DOR Workshop: Transport (Road, Rail Sea & Air)
September 27 Thornbury, GLS Bristol & Avon FHS Open Day
September 27 Middlesbrough, NRY Family History Day for All - with speakers, bookstalls & displays
September 28 Hampton, MDX West Middlesex Family History Society Open Day
 
October 1 SoG, LND Tracing your Manx Ancestors: Researching the Isle of Man
October 2 SoG, LND Getting the Most from the SoG Library Catalogue
October 4 Exeter, DEV Devon FHS AGM and Conference
October 4 Debenham, SFK The Suffolk Family History Fair
October 4 SoG, LND The Breadwinner
October 8 Canterbury, KEN Tracing Your Roots Monthly Course
October 8 SoG, LND UK Immigration to Canada
October 11 Birmingham, WMD Further Steps in Family History - one day course
October 11 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Irish
October 11 Scarborough, EYR Family & Local History Fair
October 15 SoG, LND Children in Poor Law Union Records 1834-1930, an Illustrated Talk
October 18 SoG, LND Mortality Day
October 19 Hastings, SSX Hastings & Rother Family History Fair
October 20 SoG, LND Using Pay-per-View Websites
October 22 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Welsh
October 23 SoG, LND Visit: Inner Temple Archives (visit)
October 23 Poole, DOR Workshop: Scottish & Irish Research
October 25 Canterbury, KEN How to Trace Your Family History
October 25 SoG, LND Tracing Royal Navy Ancestors - Workshop
October 25 SoG, LND Land & Property Records in Scotland
October 28 ONLINE Researching Irish Ancestors before 1820
October 29 SoG, LND Death & Resurrection - The Resurrection Men
 
November 1 Liverpool, LAN North West Group FHS Fair, St George's Hall
November 1 SoG, LND Quarter Session Records
November 1 SoG, LND School Records for Family Historians
November 1 Chesterfield, DBY Scarsdale Local History Fair
November 5 SoG, LND Society of Genealogists Collections: Wills
November 8 Canterbury, KEN Records of Death
November 8 SoG, LND Bawdy Courts & Wicked Women
November 8 SoG, LND The British Overseas
November 8 Toronto, CAN Genealogy in London Workshop - Call For Presentations
November 10 SoG, LND Genealogy for Librarians & Archivists
November 12 SoG, LND Weights, Money and other Measurements used by our Ancestors
November 14 Poole, DOR Workshop: The Industrial Revolution
November 15 Dorchester, DOR Guild Pre 19th Century Sources Seminar: Poundbury
November 17 SoG, LND Scared of Mouse?
November 17 Canterbury, KEN The Parish Chest
November 19 SoG, LND British Waterway Archive
November 22 Hull, ERY Hull Family History Fair
November 26 SoG, LND The Victorian Child
November 29 SoG, LND Women in the 1800's: Birth & Baptism
November 29 SoG, LND Off the Beaten Track: Tracing Ancestors in Suffolk
 
December 3 SoG, LND Family Tree Maker Software Advanced
December 6 SoG, LND The Auxiliary Services
December 8 SoG, LND Genealogy from your Armchair: What's Free Online
December 10 SoG, LND The Great Western Railway Project at the SoG
December 13 SoG, LND I'm Stuck
December 13 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Advanced Users
 
2009 2009 2009
January 16-20 Auckland, NZ 12th Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Heraldry
January 25 Bracknell, BRK The Bracknell Family History Fair
 
February 21 London, LND Guild Poster Seminar: London University Garden Halls
 
March 1 Kidlington, OXF The Oxfordshire & Bucks Family History Fair
March 28 Kew , SRY Federation of Family History Societies AGM / GM
 
April 4 Pudsey, WYK Pudsey Family & Local History Fair
April 17-19 to be announced Guild 30th Anniversary Conference and AGM
April 25 Aberdeen, ABD Scottish Family History Fair
 
May 16 Harrogate, NRY Guild Non-UK Sources Seminar: Hampsthwaite, Harrogate
 
August 8 Amersham, BKM Guild New Members Seminar: Amersham Free Church Hall
August 28-31 Birmingham, WMD FFHS 35th Anniversary Conference
 
September 12 Gateshead, NBL The National Family History Fair
 
 
2010 2010 2010
 
September 11 Gateshead, NBL The National Family History Fair
 
                

Some other groups’ event lists:

Society of Genealogists
The National Archives
Family Records Centre
FRC coach party bookings
Archive Awareness Campaign
The Heraldry Society

England

Cambridgeshire FHS
Devon FHS
Essex Society for Family History
Fenland FHS
Hertfordshire FHS
Huntingdonshire FHS
Kent FHS
Folkestone & District FHS
North West Kent FHS
Mid-Norfolk FHS
Oxfordshire FHS
Peterborough & District FHS
London Group of Yorkshire FHSs

Wales

Clwyd FHS
Gwent FHS

Outside the UK & Ireland

Alberta GS
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (Canada)
British Isles Family History Society - U.S.A.

Submitting a GENEVA entry

Items for inclusion in the calendar should be submitted by filling in this web form. If there is need, I (Malcolm Austen) can be contacted by email - geneva@weald.org.uk. The calendar may show an unashamed bias towards events taking place in the UK & Ireland, but don't let that stop you sending me items for inclusion - just as long as they pertain to UK & Irish ancestry.

Please note, however, that our policy is: