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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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February 11 SoG, LND Visit: Lambeth Palace
February 13 Stafford, STS Local and Family History Fair, Ancient High House
February 13 SoG, LND Researching Brewery & Publican Ancestors
February 13 SoG, LND Some Under-used Sources for English Genealogy
February 14 Crawley, SSX The Sussex & South London Family History Fair
February 20 Cheltenham, GLS Guild - DNA Seminar: National Star College, Ullenwood
February 20 Sherborne, DOR Winter Lecture: What else is out there? The nature & range of local record repositories.
February 20 Canterbury, KEN The Professional Approach Day School
February 20 Northwich, CHS FHS of Cheshire - Annual Fair
February 20 SoG, LND The Dos & Don'ts of Storage for Conservation of your Photos & Original Documents
February 20 SoG, LND Repairing & Restoring your Old Photographs using Photoshop
February 20 TNA, Kew Pub History Society Conference
February 21 Kidlington, OXF The Oxfordshire & Bucks Family History Fair
February 26-28 London, LND Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2010
 
March 4 SoG, LND Evening Skills Course 18 weeks - Intermediate -
March 6 Llanfyllin, MGY Montgomeryshire GS Open Event (with various local society stands)
March 6 SoG, LND Scottish Poor Law
March 7 Port Sunlight, CHS The Merseyside & Cheshire Family History Fair
March 10 SoG, LND My Ancestor was an Artist
March 13 Northallerton, NYK Record Office Open Day + family/local history display event
March 13 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Beginners
March 17 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Irish
March 19 Canterbury, KEN Exam Techniques Afternoon School
March 19 SoG, LND Using Pay-per-View Websites for Family HIstory
March 20 Sherborne, DOR Winter Lecture: Spring 1911- Where do you think they were?
March 20 Haywards Heath, SXW Conference and AGM
March 20 Brompton Northallerton, NRY Brompton Heritage & Family History Day
March 20 Northallerton, YKS Family History Skills Day
March 20 Gateshead, TWR Irish Ancestry day
March 24 SoG, LND Getting the Most from the Society
March 27 York, YKS Family History Fair
March 27 SoG, LND Open Day with Free Lectures for Beginners
March 27 Plymouth, DEV Plymouth History and Archives Day Conference
March 28 Norwich, NFK The East Anglia Family History Fair
March 31 SoG, LND Child Migrants
March 31 SoG, LND Visit: Wesley's Chapel
 
April 7 SoG, LND Using the findmypast.co.uk Website
April 7 SoG, LND Every Journey has Two Ends: Getting the Most out of Passenger Lists
April 7 SoG, LND Lunatic Asylums & their Records
April 9-11 Thame, OXF 31st Guild Conference and AGM
April 10 Pudsey, WYK Pudsey Family and Local History Fair
April 10 SoG, LND Tracing Family who went to Australia
April 11 Stockport, CHS The Stockport Town Hall Family History Fair
April 17 Gloucester, GLS Gloucestershire FHS Open Day & Family History Fair
April 17 Birmingham, WAR First Steps - Beginner's one day course
April 17 SoG, LND Family Tree Maker Software for Beginners
April 17 SoG, LND Family Tree Maker Software for Advanced users
April 21 SoG, LND Using the Society Catalogue
April 21 SoG, LND Researching Yeoman Farmers
April 24 Chatham, KEN My Victorian Ancestor
April 24 Sheffield, YKS Sheffield & District Family History Socety Fair
April 24 SoG, LND My Ancestor came from Lancashire
April 24 SoG, LND The Master Genealogist Software - Advanced
April 25 Worthing, SSX The South Coast Family History Fair
April 28 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Advanced Users
 
May 1 SoG, LND Tracing the History of a Business
May 1 SoG, LND Berkshire & Thames Valley Family History
May 5 SoG, LND Tracing Female Ancestors
May 6 Canterbury, KEN Family Roots, weekly evening course
May 8 SoG, LND Organisation of the Parish & Records Created 1550-1840
May 8 SoG, LND Marriage Law & Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century
May 12 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Catholic
May 15 Chester, CHS Guild Maps and Mapping Seminar
May 15 SoG, LND Family History for Beginners
May 19 SoG, LND Visit: Carlyle's House
May 19 SoG, LND Child Evacuees of World War II
May 22 SoG, LND News about LDS Online Sources & Understanding IGI Sources
May 22 SoG, LND My Ancestors came from Devon
May 26 SoG, LND Visit: Museum of London Archaeological Archive
May 27 SoG, LND Visit: St. Martin-in-the-Fields Parish Church
May 29 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Londoner
 
June 2 SoG, LND London Cemeteries & Burial Grounds
June 4 SoG, LND Genealogy from your Armchair: What's Free Online
June 5 Sunderland, TWR Sunderland History Fair
June 5 Shrewsbury, SAL Shropshire FHS Open Day
June 5 SoG, LND Blogging for Family History
June 5 SoG, LND Drawing up a Family Tree
June 6 Maidstone, KEN The Kent Family History Fair
June 6-8 Scarborough, NYKS Cancelled - Discovering and Detecting - A Family History Residential
June 9 SoG, LND A Historical Walk around Wapping
June 12-13 Tenterden, KEN WITHERIDGE FHS AGM & Family Reunion
June 12 SoG, LND DNA Tests & Heredity
June 12 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Shopkeeper
June 12 Torquay, DEV Devon Craftsmen - Disappearing Traditions
June 16 SoG, LND Great Ormond Street Hospital Archive: Patient Historic Database
June 19 Salisbury, WIL Wiltshire FHS Open Day
June 19 SoG, LND Walk: London Cemeteries & Lost Burial Grounds
June 23 SoG, LND Stuck in London
June 26 York, NYKS Yorkshire Family History Fair
June 26 SoG, LND The Workhouse and Settlement & Removal Issues
June 26 SoG, LND Computers for Family History: An Introduction
June 30 SoG, LND Family History Resources at the Parliamentary Archives
 
July 3 SoG, LND Fishing and Fishermen
July 3 SoG, LND Writing Family History part 1: Starting Out
July 7 SoG, LND My Ancestor fought in the Battle of Britian
July 10 Leeds, WRY Event cancelled - Day School
July 10 Canterbury, KEN Grow Your Family Tree residential course
July 10 SoG, LND History & Comparison of Parish Registers, BT's and Other Sources for BMDs
July 17 SoG, LND The 1911 Census Online- Workshop
July 17 SoG, LND Writing Family History part 2: Expanding your Family History Biography
July 24 Aylesbury, BKM Buckinghamshire FHS Open Day
July 24 SoG, LND My Ancestor was in the Coast Guard
July 24 SoG, LND The India Connection
July 31 SoG, LND Finding & Understanding Wills
July 31 SoG, LND Writing Family History part 3: Developing your Writing Further
 
August 4 SoG, LND Visit: Freemason's Hall Museum & Librar
August 7 Epsom, SRY Guild of One-Name Studies Computer Seminar
August 7 SoG, LND Country Poor & Town Poor
August 7 SoG, LND Tracing Scottish Borders Families
August 14 SoG, LND Family Historian Software - Practical
August 14 SoG, LND Publishing your Family History to the Web
August 18 SoG, LND Visit: Bank of England Museum & Talk
August 21 SoG, LND Tracing Royal Bastards
August 21 SoG, LND Why Can't I Find them in the Census?
 
September 1 SoG, LND London Streets for Family Historians
September 2 SoG, LND Evening Skills Course 18 weeks - Advanced
September 4 SoG, LND Palaeography for Beginners
September 8 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Mormon
September 11 Newcastle Upon Tyne, NBL The National Family History Fair
Note change of venue
September 11 SoG, LND Widowhood and the Final Years
September 11 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Doctor
September 15 SoG, LND I'm Stuck
September 17 SoG, LND Walk: Stepney to Mile End Old Town
September 18 Thornbury, GLS Bristol & Avon FHS Open Day
September 22 SoG, LND Getting the Most from the Society
September 25 SoG, LND Records for One-Name Studies
September 29 SoG, LND Welsh Family History on the Internet & Other Sources
 
October 2 Woodstock, OXF Oxfordshire FHS Open Day
October 2 SoG, LND Walk: Westminster & West London
October 2 SoG, LND Careers in Genealogy: The Road to becoming a Member of AGRA & Running a Genealogical Practice
October 2 Exeter, DEV Devon FHS A.G.M. & Conference
October 6 SoG, LND In the High Courts of Justice: Chancery Records for Family Historians
October 8 SoG, LND Genealogy from your Armchair: What's Free Online
October 9 Southport, MSY Annual Conference and AGM
October 9 Llantrisant, GLA Glamorgan FHS Open Day
October 9 Birmingham, WAR Further Steps - Researching records before 1837
October 9 Debenham, SFK The Suffolk Family History Fair
October 9 SoG, LND My Ancestor was an Agricultural Labourer
October 9 SoG, LND The Georgians: Sources for the 18th Century
October 13 SoG, LND Methodists, Baptists & Presbyterians
October 16 Wallasey, CHS FHSC Members' Day and AGM
October 16 Hull, EYK Hull Family & Local History Fair
October 16 SoG, LND Careers in Genealogy: Perfect Powerpoint Presentations
October 16 SoG, LND Learn about your Ancestors from Old Photographs - Workshop
October 20 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Beginners
October 23 SoG, LND Black History Month: London Resources for Black and Asian Collections at the LMA
October 25 SoG, LND Open Day
October 27 SoG, LND Death & Resurrection: The Resurrection Men
October 30 Canterbury, KEN Branching Out: Parish Records
October 30 SoG, LND The National Archives for Family History: Using the Catalogue & Online Collections
October 30 SoG, LND Organising your Electronic Family History Records
 
November 3 SoG, LND My Ancestor was a Policeman
November 6 SoG, LND Was your Ancestor Really Married: Marriage Laws, Records & Customs
November 6 SoG, LND The Plague is Upon Us: Plague, Action & Remedies
November 8 SoG, LND Genealogy for Librarians & Archivists
November 10 SoG, LND Railway Workers
November 12 SoG, LND Using Pay-per-View Websites
November 13 Canterbury, KEN Wills and How to Read Them, day school
November 13 Batley, WYK Family and Local History Fair
November 13 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Advanced Users
November 17 SoG, LND Guidelines & Standards: How to Avoid Mistakes in Genealogy
November 20 Sevenoaks, KEN Guild of One-Name Studies Born Abroad? Seminar
November 24 SoG, LND Creating Family Heirlooms
November 27 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Scottish
 
December 1 SoG, LND Nonconformity & Dr. Williams Library
December 4 SoG, LND Latin for Beginners
December 8 SoG, LND The Oldest Profession
 
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February 12 Taunton, SOM Guild of One-Name Studies Rogues Seminar
May 6 London, SW1 Society of Genealogists Centenary Celebration Dinner at Royal Overseas League
May 7 London, SW1 Society of Genealogists Centenary Conference at the Royal Overseas League
May 21 Woodhorn, NBL Guild Mining Sources Seminar
May 29 Barbican, LND The FH Event
September 10 Venue t.b.a. The National Family History Fair
 
2012 2012 2012
 
September 8 Venue t.b.a. The National Family History Fair
 
2013 2013 2013
 
September 14 Venue t.b.a. The National Family History Fair
 
2014 2014 2014
 
                

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: