Family History Work Book

York Family History Society Family History Work Book

A Family History work book to enable you to record all your family history details in an easy to carry A4 booklet.  Contains a central family tree chart and individual pages for each family where you can record births, deaths and marriages as well as children and census details.  Also has a relationship chart so [...]

Report on the Family History Fair 2013

York Family History Fair 13th April 2013

The 2013 City of York and District Family History Society fair was held last weekend and was a roaring success! The new venue gave us much more space  for the exhibitors’ stands and allowed visitors to easily browse round the fair without it seeming overcrowded. The venue was easily accessible from the York by-pass and [...]

New CD – York & Ainsty Burials 1750 – 1779

York & Ainsty Burials 1750 - 1779 CD

York & Ainsty Burials 1750 – 1779 Contains over 16000 burials for the 23 city of York churches and all the parishes in the Ainsty.

Sutton on the Forest Monumental Inscriptions – NEW today

Sutton on the Forest MIs CD

New CD for Sutton on the Forest Monumental Inscriptions has been added to our shop today. The CD includes the monuments in the church interior, all the gravestones in the churchyard and also the cemetery on Huby Road. The cemetery includes graves for the burials of many of the Polish refugees who lived at East [...]

New Web Site for York & District Family History Society

York & District Family History Society Web Site

Welcome to our new web site which has been some months in the making. We’ve moved all the content that was on the old web site on to this new one and made sure any links to the site still work so you should still find what you are looking for. There are some new [...]

York & District Family History Society Fair 2013

York & District Family History Fair 2013

Saturday 13th April 2013 – 10am to 4pm. We have a new venue this year: Manor CE Academy, Millfield Lane, Nether Poppleton, York YO26 6PA. Access by car is via the A1237 York Outer Ring Road. Free parking and wheelchair user friendly. Refreshments available. Come and see us, chat over a coffee, browse the many, many family history [...]

Memorial Inscription Recording Project

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Our Society is involved in recording the inscriptions on gravestones and memorials within the Diocese of York. The year 2012 has been our best year ever for number of recordings completed, Our recent completions Stockton on Forest, Sand Hutton, Crayke, Murton with Osbaldwick, Warthill with Holtby and Huntington. are all available on CD from the [...]