Discover how to use maps as a key part of your family history research to plot where your ancestors lived and worked, to discover crucial clues and to make so much more sense of your family history findings. https://f.mtr.cool/whrgnukzzv

Join us 18:30pm tonight (GMT) as Chris Paton show us how to dig deeper into your family history in Ireland, using knowledge about the lay of the land and the historic records. This webinar is available as a part of your FamilyTree Plus membership

Have you got your ticket yet? All AGRA Members and Associates can book via the Eventbrite link in the email. We have a great lineup of speakers including: @davelifelines.bsky.social, Gill Blanchard, @chronicology.bsky.social, and the team from Cambridgeshire Archives. See you there. #Genealogy

Getting to know Your Military Ancestors from the 1850s to the 1920s with speaker Graham Bandy - Zoom Talk: 9 April 7.30pm Graham will show you how to use your military family photos and memorabilia to enhance your family tree. #NWKFHS To Get the Zoom Link

8 April 7.30pm Zoom Discussion Group with Laura Lincoln: Let's Talk Family History www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

8 April 10.30am Library DNA & General Family History Discussion Group with Pam Goddard www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Take a look at our website to see our extensive programme of events - dozens of in-person and Zoom talks, discussion groups, and workshops running through to the end of 2026. www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Dartford Branch Talk 4 April Dartford Rural Rides, Part 2, West Kingsdown to Southfleet with Christoph Bull Doors open 9.45am meeting starts at 10.30am #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy No booking, just turn up.

Have you seen the line-up for the forthcoming series of Who Do You Think You Are? Let us know what you think in the comments and read the full details over on the website:

Next lunchtime talk: Monday 13th April, 1-2pm '"The past is a foreign country": schooling and writing in early nineteenth century Kent' presented by Tony Fairman – Independent scholar Book your free seat today: 📧 [email protected] ☎️ 03000 420 673 #Education #History #Kent

The 48th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the NORTH WEST KENT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY will be held at DARTFORD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE, Heath Lane, Dartford, Kent DA1 2LY ON SATURDAY 4TH JULY 2026 at 10:30 #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/member... Did you know you can join the North West Kent Family History Society for as little as £10 a year? Membership offers a wide range of benefits, including online and in-person talks and meetings, a quarterly journal, plus a whole lot more #NWKFHS #Genealogy #Kent

1 April 10.30am Zoom Discussion Group with Ann Clarke: Names which made you wonder what inspired the parents to burden their children with such choices www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Sevenoaks Branch Talk 28 March How to survive in Anglo Saxon England with Toni Mount Doors open 10.45am meeting starts 11am - No booking, just turn up. #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Can you help run our Society? We urgently need to fill a number of volunteer roles within the Society including a Chair, further details can be found on what’s involved below. Please feel free to contact the Society if you are able to help in any way #NWKFHS

I is for… #IronGallInk Made from oak gall tannic acid and iron salts, this ink was favoured by European scribes for over 1400 years owing to its permanence and ease of manufacture. Over time it can deteriorate, causing a type of substrate loss known as lacing. #KAconservationAtoZ

Sevenoaks Branch Talk 28 March How to survive in Anglo Saxon England with Toni Mount Doors open 10.45am meeting starts 11am - No booking, just turn up. #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

25 March10.30am Zoom Workshop - Education during the 19th and 20th centuries with Linda Crisp www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Norah Mary HANIGAN and the Drumcollogher, Limerick Cinema Fire of 1926 Can you help? We are in contact with someone who is researching a cinema fire in 1926 in Dromcollogher, Limerick which resulted in multiple deaths. Does anyone have any information about the location of the memorial? #NWKFHS

🌳🎧 On this week's podcast Nathan shares the research steps he’s taken to unearth the last surname he needed to finally complete his 3× great-grandparents. Also, Helen reminds us all about the Genealogical Proof Standard and talks about the benefits of GEDCOM files. 🔗👇

Join us 16 March and ensure you are best-prepared to make the most of the forthcoming 1926 Ireland Census. Available as a part of your Family Tree Plus membership, or sign up here https://f.mtr.cool/hmerisxgkv

The Tenterden & District Local History Society welcomes anyone interested in Tenterden’s past. We host coffee mornings, talks, newsletters, summer visits & maintain a research library at Tenterden Museum. Visitors welcome—join at an event or online: tenterdenhistory.co.uk #KASSpotlight #KentHistory

18 March 10.30am Zoom DNA Discussion Group with Laura Lincoln www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Save over 30% on AncestryDNA* This Mother’s Day, explore the shared heritage in your family, passed through generations of women, with over 30% off AncestryDNA. *T&Cs apply www.ancestry.co.uk/c/dna/of...

We've been asked if anyone knows of creative writing groups in Sandwich or Deal. Please get in touch if that's you!

Great talk yesterday by curator Andy Ward from Kent Archaeological Society. And they offer FREE student membership - what's not to like? @kentarchsoc.bsky.social www.kentarchaeology.org.uk

Its #WordWednesday Today's Kentish word, taken from our online dictionary is Ampery amp-uri. adj. Weak; unhealthy; beginning to decay, especially applied to cheese. (see also Hampery.) A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms (1888). Pg 3.

Our thanks to Mark Ballard for launching this year's lunchtime talks programme with an insightful presentation on using title deeds to aid historical research. Did you know that we're now selling de-accessioned books at our talks? Have a browse when you next attend 📚👀

I will never cease to be grateful that my job allows me the opportunity to work with things as beautiful as this 1785 map of Essex. Just stop and consider the care and attention to detail here and the pleasure that the cartographer must (surely?) have felt in a job well done... #MappyMonday

Well, that's something you don't often see... The relationships of the witnesses to the bride/groom (in this case, to the bride) given by the clerk.

The subject of the next WikiTree Challenge, beginning on March 26th, is former Society for #OnePlaceStudies Chair Kirsty Gray! WikiTreers will be joining forces to make #genealogy discoveries for Kirsty’s family tree. Follow the link to join in. #OnePlaceWednesday

Take a look at our website to see our extensive programme of events - dozens of in-person and Zoom talks, discussion groups, and workshops running through to the end of 2026. www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Zoom Talk: 12 March The Future of Family History research in the digital age with Nick Barrett In this talk, Nick explores some of the technologies that are changing the way we research, share and create our stories. To Get the Zoom Link www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Great to see ancestral places as the subject for this Zoom Discussion Group for members of the North West #Kent #FamilyHistory Society! Will it spark any new #OnePlaceStudies?

11 March 10.30am Zoom Discussion Group with Steve Maslin: My Ancestors in a Wiltshire Village and the surprises and shocks Steve discovered beyond the paperwork with Steve Maslin www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

11 March 10.30am Library DNA & General Family History Discussion Group with Pam Goddard www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

www.nwkfhs.org.uk/about/member... Did you know you can join the North West Kent Family History Society for as little as £10 a year? Membership offers a wide range of benefits, including online and in-person talks and meetings, a quarterly journal, plus a whole lot more. #NWKFHS #Genealogy #Kent

We are pleased to highlight the forthcoming book by IHGS graduate John Wintrip, LHG. History of Parish Registers in England & Wales: From the Restoration to Civil Registration - Lutterworth Press 26 March 2026. Several chapters are based on his IHGS Licentiate thesis. www.ihgs.ac.uk/2894

Announcing our first lunchtime talk of 2026! Monday 9th March, 1-2pm: 'Using title deeds to research historic buildings, and to trace lost houses' presented by Mark Ballard – Archivist at Kent Archives. Book your free seat today: 📧 [email protected] ☎️ 03000 420 673

Dartford Branch Talk: Family History Research at the Metropolitan Police Museum with the Curator and Archivist, Clare Smith, who will explain how the museum collection can be used in your research. From 10.30am - 12.30pm on 07/02/26 #NWKFHS

Zoom Discussion Group with Ann Clarke: Have you found an interesting property that your family has lived in? Have you researched the property? Event Information Event Date 04-02-2026 10:30 am to 12:30 pm Location Zoom online #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

25 February 7.30pm Zoom Discussion Group: Breaking Down Ancestral Brickwalls with David Cufley www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/branc... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

25 February 10.30am Library Writing Group www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/branc... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

25 February 10.30am Library Writing Group www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/branc... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

25 February 7.30pm Zoom Discussion Group: Breaking Down Ancestral Brickwalls with David Cufley www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/branc... #NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy

Some great accounts for #Genealogy and related things are: @oneplacestudies.bsky.social @sogorg.bsky.social @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social @nwkfhs.bsky.social @chiddickstree.bsky.social @janetfew.bsky.social @allthosebefore.bsky.social

Whoever took scissors to this marriage proposal received by Frances Humphrey of #Seal in 1809 thought they'd snipped the sender from existence — yet remaining clues suggest he was a besotted clergyman named Richard from #Westerham. Poor chap! 💔 ☟ See U1050/C76 #ValentinesDay

Among the UK’s largest country houses, #Knole in #Sevenoaks provided settings for Fennell's adaptation including the harrowing opening scene of gallows day in Gimmerton Town Square (A) and later, the marriage of Heathcliff and Isabella (B). ☟ See C150603044 🎥 #WutheringHeights

Eagle-eyed cinema-goers might have spotted a certain 600-year-old #Kent estate (whose archives are deposited with us) make a cameo in the recently released adaptation of #WutheringHeights, directed by Emerald Fennell. Any guesses? We'll reveal all in our next post! 🍿👀

Only one week left to purchase your tickets for this special talk presented by Dr Barrie Cook – former curator of coins at the #BritishMuseum 🪙 🎟️ £10.00 per ticket 📧 To purchase, email your name & telephone number to [email protected] ℹ️ More details: bit.ly/CoinHoardsEvent