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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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2009 2009 2009
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January 10-18 Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA Irish Genealogy at Sea
January 14 SoG, LND Surname Origins: Putting your name on the Map
January 17 Sherborne, SOM Winter Workshop - On The Parish/In The Workhouse
January 16-20 Auckland, NZ 12th Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Heraldry
January 17 Barking, ESS Family History Fair
January 17 SoG, LND Scottish Records before 1707
January 17 SoG, LND Upstairs - Downstairs: Domestic Service
January 20 Brixham, DEV Start to Become a Family History Detective (weekly, Mon 1-3pm)
January 21 SoG, LND Tracing London Dockland Ancestors
January 24 SoG, LND Caring for your Family History Collection
January 24 SoG, LND My Ancestor came from Yorkshire
January 25 Bracknell, BRK The Bracknell Family History Fair
January 28 SoG, LND Barking up the Wrong Family Tree: a Cautionary Tale with Examples
January 31 SoG, LND Two Twentieth-Century Records for Family Historians
January 31 SoG, LND Writing your Family History
 
February 4 SoG, LND A Death in the Family
February 6 SoG, LND Visit: The National Archives
February 7 SoG, LND News about LDS Online Sources
February 7 SoG, LND Tracing London Ancestors Online
February 8 Crawley, SSX The Sussex & South London Family History Fair
February 11 SoG, LND Where your Ancestors went and Why
February 12 SoG, LND English Records for Irish Research
February 12 Poole, DOR Beginners Course 1st Day (2nd Day 19th Feb)
February 14 SoG, LND Marriages Lost & Found
February 14 SoG, LND Land Records & Deeds
February 16 SoG, LND Genealogy from your Armchair - What's Free Online
February 18 SoG, LND Hand-Held Genealogy
February 19 Poole, DOR Beginners Course 2nd Day (1st Day 12th February)
February 20 Poole, DOR Intermediate Course 1st day (2nd day 6th March)
February 21 London, LND Guild Poster Seminar: London University Garden Halls
February 21 Canterbury, KEN The Professional Approach Day School
February 21 Northwich, CHS Tenth Annual Cheshire Family History Day
February 21 Sherborne, SOM Winter Workshop - Public Utilities
February 21 SoG, LND The Genealogists' Internet
February 21 SoG, LND Scanning and Enhancing Documents & Photos
Feb 27-1 Mar Olympia, LND Who Do You Think You Are? live 2009
Feb 27-1 Mar Olympia, LND Who Do You Think You Are? Live! Family History Show
 
March 1 Kidlington, OXF The Oxfordshire & Bucks Family History Fair
March 1-31 Nottingham, NTT Talk & Tours @ Galleries of Justice: The Development of Prisons from Punishment to Reform
March 2-30 Maidstone, KEN Starting Out In Family History
March 4 SoG, LND Scottish Family History Online
March 5 SoG, LND Evening Skills Course Advanced 18 weeks
March 6 Poole, DOR Intermediate Course 2nd Day (1st day 20th Feb )
March 7 Canterbury, KEN Reading Old Documents - Day School
March 7 Surrey, BC, CAN Megan SMOLENYAK SMOLENYAK Seminar
March 7 SoG, LND My Ancestor went to America
March 8 Port Sunlight, CHS The Merseyside & Cheshire Family History Fair
March 9 SoG, LND Using Pay-per-View Websites for Family History
March 11 SoG, LND Military History on the Internet
March 12 SoG, LND Visit: St. Johns Gate Grand Priory Church & Museum
March 14 Brompton by Northallerton, NRY Brompton Heritage & Family History Day
March 14 SoG, LND I'm Stuck
March 18 SoG, LND Family History Resources at the Oxfordshire Record Office
March 19 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Advanced users
March 21 York, YKS Family History Fair
March 21 Sherborne, SOM Winter Workshop - Computers
March 25 SoG, LND My Ancestor was from Eastern Europe
March 26 SoG, LND Visit: British Library Newspapers
March 27 Poole, DOR Workshop - Life in the "Big House" - Upstairs and Downstairs
March 28 Kew, SRY Federation of Family History Societies AGM / GM
March 28 Haywards Heath, WSX Conference and AGM
March 28 SoG, LND Open Day with Beginner's Lectures - FREE
March 29 Norwich, NFK The East Anglia Family History Fair
 
April 1 SoG, LND The Parish Chest
April 3 SoG, LND Visit: Lambeth Palace
April 4 Pudsey, WYK Pudsey Family & Local History Fair
April 4 SoG, LND Walk: Stepney to Mile End Old Town
April 4 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Beginners
April 5 Stockport, CHS The Stockport Town Hall Family History Fair
April 6 SoG, LND Genealogy from your Armchair - What's Free Online
April 8 SoG, LND Using Regional Newspapers
April 15 SoG, LND Women in the 1800's: Widowhood
April 17-19 Peterborough, NTH 30th Anniversary Conference and AGM
April 18 Gloucester, GLS Gloucestershire FHS Open Day & Fair
April 18 Woodford, CHS North West Group of Family History Societies Annual Conference
April 18 SoG, LND Family History for Beginners Full Day
April 18 ... Norwich, NFK to Sept 2009 Research Module for Family History & Genealogy
April 22 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Dutch
April 23 SoG, LND Old & New Poor Law
April 25 Aberdeen, ABD Scottish Family History Fair
April 25 Keighley, WYK Family History Fair
April 25 Canterbury, KEN Exam Techniques Day School
April 25 SoG, LND Trades, Professions & Guilds
April 25 SoG, LND Off the Beaten Track: Family History Resources for Somerset & Dorset
April 25 Chatham, KEN The Parish, The Poor and the Land
April 29 SoG, LND Tracing Gypsy & Traveller Ancestors
 
May 2 SoG, LND Family History Research in Norfolk
May 2 SoG, LND Finding Burials & Wills
May 3 Barbican Exhibition Centre, LND The 2009 Family History Event
May 6 SoG, LND 1911 Census Online Explained
May 6 SoG, LND Finding Foundlings
May 9 SoG, LND In & Out of the Workhouse
May 9 SoG, LND Drawing up a Family Tree
May 11 SoG, LND Visit: Fishmongers' Hall
May 13 SoG, LND Getting the Most from the Library Catalogue (SOGCAT) - Free
May 13 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Coalminer
May 16 Harrogate, NRY Guild Non-UK Sources Seminar: Hampsthwaite, Harrogate
May 16 Sherborne, SOM Open Day. Theme - Past Occupations
May 16 Canterbury, KEN The Parish & The Poor - Day School
May 16 SoG, LND Introduction to Title Deeds Workshop
May 16 SoG, LND Introduction to Manorial Records Workshop
May 20 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Photographer
May 21 SoG, LND Visit: Hackney Archives
May 23 SoG, LND Family Tree Maker Software for Beginners
May 23 SoG, LND Family Tree Maker Software - Advanced users
May 27 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Weaver
May 27 SoG, LND British Civillian POWs at Ruhleben
May 30 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Scottish
 
June 1-30 Nottingham, NTT Talk & Tours @ Galleries of Justice - Behind Bars: Stories from the County Gaol
June 3 SoG, LND Westminster City Archives for Family History Research
June 4 SoG, LND Bright Lights, Big City: Rural to Urban Migration
June 6 Shrewsbury, SAL Shropshire Family History Society's Open Day
June 6 SoG, LND Family Historian Software - Practical
June 6 SoG, LND Tracing pre-1841 London Ancestors: Land & Property Records
June 7 Maidstone, KEN The Kent Family History Fair
June 10 SoG, LND My Ancestor was in the Fire Brigade
June 11 SoG, LND Visit: Parliamentary Archives at the House of Lords
June 13 Canterbury, KEN Higher Certificate Examination
June 13 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Welsh
June 13 SoG, LND My Ancestor was in the British Army
June 17 SoG, LND My Ancestor came from Belgium
June 19 SoG, LND Visit: Hyde Park Family History Centre
June 20 Bideford, DEV Devon FHS Summer Special
June 20 Swindon, WIL Family History Open Day
June 20 Canterbury, KEN Diploma in Genealogy Examination
June 20 SoG, LND Walk: London Churchyards
June 22-26 Canterbury, KEN Tracing Your Family History - Residential Course
June 24 SoG, LND New to SoG Orientation Tour
June 24 SoG, LND Genealogy in Early British Censuses 1086-1841
June 27 York, YKS Yorkshire Family History Fair
June 27 SoG, LND Latin for Beginners
 
July 1 SoG, LND Problems in London Ancestry
July 2 SoG, LND Visit: Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives & Museum
July 4 SoG, LND Using Ordinance Survey Maps for Family History Research
July 4 SoG, LND Careers in Genealogy: Successful Writing for Family & Local History Publications
July 11 SoG, LND Tracing Ancestors in Cambridgeshire
July 18 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Irish
July 22 SoG, LND Ecclesiastic Courts
July 25 SoG, LND Transportation: Who Went Where & When
July 25 SoG, LND Careers in Genealogy: The Road to becoming a Member of AGRA & Running a Genealogical Practice
July 25 Aylesbury, BKM Buckinghamshire Family History Society Open Day
 
August 1 SoG, LND The Master Genealogist Software for Beginners
August 1 SoG, LND Tracing Female Ancestors
August 8 Amersham, BKM Guild New Members Seminar: Amersham Free Church Hall
August 8 SoG, LND The National Archives for Family History: The Catalogue & Online collections
August 8 SoG, LND Writing your Own Life Story: Workshop
August 12 SoG, LND The Census Overseas
August 15 Worcester, WOR The Midlands Family History Fair
August 15 SoG, LND Before Parish Registers
August 15 SoG, LND My Ancestor was German
August 17 SoG, LND Genealogy from your Armchair - Whats Free Online
August 20 SoG, LND Visit & Harpsichord Recital: Handel House
August 22 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Londoner
August 28-31 Birmingham, WMD FFHS Conference has moved to Nottingham ...
August 28-31 Nottingham, NTT Open the Door & Here are the People - Family and Local History Conference hosted by the Halstead Trust
August 29 Nottingham, NTT FFHS General Meeting
August 29 SoG, LND Why Can't I Find Them in the Census? - Workshop
August 29 SoG, LND Prisoners & Policemen
 
September 1-30 Nottingham, NTT Talk & Tours @ Galleries of Justice -  History of Crime in Nottinghamshire: Its Prisons and Police Forces
September 2 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Beginners
September 3 Canterbury, KEN Introduction to Family History - Evenings (weekly) ending 1st October
September 3 SoG, LND Evening Skills Course for Beginners 18 weeks
September 5 SoG, LND Publishing on the Web
September 9 SoG, LND Getting the Most from the Library Catalogue (SOGCAT) - Free
September 9 SoG, LND Irish Land Records
September 10 SoG, LND Visit: Dr. Johnson's House
September 12 Gateshead, NBL The National Family History Fair
September 12 Canterbury, KEN Pre-1837 Sources - Day School
September 12 SoG, LND Social, Civic & Missionary Congregationalism
September 12 SoG, LND Scrapbooking for Family Historians
September 16 SoG, LND Family History Sources in the Essex Record Office
September 18 SoG, LND Visit: Hyde Park Family History Centre
September 19 Bromham, WIL Wiltshire FHS Seminar - It's all on the Internet now, isn't it?
September 19 SoG, LND Records for One Name Studies (Sponsored by the Halsted Trust)
September 23 SoG, LND Tracing Anglican Clergymen
September 26 SoG, LND Walk: Nonconformist Chapels & Burial Grounds
September 30 SoG, LND London Maps for Family Historians
 
October 3 Glenrothes, FIF Home and Away - Scots on the move
October 3 Debenham, SFK The Suffolk Family History Fair
October 3 Exeter, DEV Devon FHS AGM and Conference
October 3 Cardiff, GLA Glamorgan FHS 35th Anniversary Openday
October 3 SoG, LND Chancery & Other Equity Courts
October 7 SoG, LND Creating Family Heirlooms
October 10 Kidlington, OXF Oxfordshire FHS Open Day
October 10 Scarborough, NYK Scarborough Family & Local History Fair
October 10 SoG, LND Victorian Photographs: Their Care & Conservation
October 10 SoG, LND Learn about your Ancestors from Old Photographs Workshop
October 12 SoG, LND Using Pay-per-View Websites for Family History
October 14 SoG, LND Researching Baptist Ancestors
October 17 SoG, LND Off the Beaten Track: Research in the Channel Islands
October 21 SoG, LND My Ancestor was an Apothecary
October 24 Canterbury, KEN How to Trace Your Family History - Day School
October 24 SoG, LND Getting the Best out of the Ancestry Website
October 24 SoG, LND Some Lesser Known Genealogy Sources at TNA at Kew
October 26 SoG, LND Open Day - FREE
October 28 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Miller
October 31 SoG, LND Palaeography for Beginners
 
November 4 SoG, LND 10 Useful Websites
November 5 SoG, LND Using GEVES Software
November 7 Hull, EYK Hull Family & Local History Fair
November 7 SoG, LND Tracing your Medieval Ancestors
November 9 SoG, LND Genealogy for Librarians & Archivists
November 11 SoG, LND DNA: Heredity & Disease
November 14 Canterbury, KEN Heraldry for Family Historians
November 14 SoG, LND Adoption & Fostering circa 1850-1930
November 14 SoG, LND Careers in Genealogy: Pitfalls for Professionals
November 18 SoG, LND Using the Society Library - FREE
November 18 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Tailor
November 20 SoG, LND Visit: The National Archives
November 21 SoG, LND Family Historian Software - Advanced
November 25 SoG, LND Scottish Sources in the SoG Library
November 25 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Brushmaker
 
December 1-31 Nottingham, NTT Talk & Tours @ Galleries of Justice - Skeletons in Closets: Tracing Criminal Ancestors
December 2 SoG, LND My Ancestor Came from Birmingham
December 5 SoG, LND Death in London
December 9 SoG, LND Tracing Living Relatives
December 12 SoG, LND 1911 Census Online & Pre-1841 Censuses Explained
December 12 SoG, LND Researching the Armies in British India
December 16 SoG, LND Chartists & the Labour Movement to 1835
 
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

The Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
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
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Family History Section

Wales

Clwyd FHS
Gwent FHS

Outside the UK & Ireland

Alberta GS
British Columbia (Canada) Genealogical Society
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: