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12th November 2021
FHF Really Useful Family History Show

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The Margaret Russell library is located in the Carlisle Record Office. It is a library of books mainly donated by Margaret to the Society and they can be used for reference work by any visitor to the Record Office. Please follow the link below to the listing of books that are in the library, please note this is ongoing work so books are added and updates made all the time.

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You can visit the Cumbria Country History Trust website for historic details of most towns and villages in Cumbria. Please note that clicking on this link will take you to a website external to this CFHS website.

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This conference will be held from the evening of Friday 5th to lunch time on Sunday 7th November and can be attended on a full residential or non-residential basis or members can choose which presentations/meals they wish to attend. For more details and the flyer and booking form check the September issue of the newsletter or Click Here for the Forum announcement which has a downloadable flyer attached.

The Society has for some time been purchasing documents of local interest in order to preserve them. There was recently an opportunity to purchase some documents in bulk and this was negotiated by the society. These documents are are archive of an old solicitors practice in the Carlisle area and contain a wealth of information in various deeds, wills and other legal documents. The Society has now been able to sort and index the first batch of these documents and this index can be searched by clicking on the bar below. When you find documents you can now buy either a copy or the original.

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The Cumbria Family History Society was founded to help members carry out their genealogy researches and our area of interest is the modern county of Cumbria, which is the old counties of Cumberland and Westmorland and a part of Northern Lancashire and North Yorkshire.

The society produces a quarterly Newsletter, which is sent by post to all members in March, June, September and December. Contributions to the Newsletter are always welcome.

The Publishing programme covers a range of Cumbrian Genealogy topics including the 1851 census for the whole county, Memorial Inscriptions, Carlisle Marriage Bonds, Probate and Burial Indexes, Place names, Strays, and a few Parish Registers transcripts.

Quarterly meetings are held in London for members in the South East. Regular weekend and one day conferences are held in Cumbria. See the activities page or the Notice Board for current details.

The Society is a member of the Federation of Family History Societies, the North West Group of Family History Societies, the Association of Scottish Family History Societies, the Lancashire Parish Register Society, and a founder member of the Friends of Cumbria Archives.

The Society is also a Registered Charity in the United Kingdom, No 518393.

You can join the Society on line at Membership, annual subscriptions run from January to December each year.

Events from the Forum.

12th - 13th November 2021 Really Useful Family History Show

Catholic Burials Database

Sat 7th Aug Janet Few The Ill, the Impoverished ..... [ZOOM]

Sat 16th Oct 2021 Mike Winstanley The Lune Valley-West Indies [ZOOM]

9th September 2021 IHGS Future of family history

September 2021 - Webtember:All Genealogy by MyHeritage

Changes to Cumbria Archive Opening Times from 4th August 2021

4th Sept 2021 Scottish Indexes Conference [ZOOM]

CLHF Annual Convention and AGM 2021

5th - 7th November 2021 Crooklands Weekend Conference

The Society publishes a number of items and the full details can be seen in the Publications section.

We now stock a number of publications from the Furness Region, check the Publications page for details.

The latest publications are given below.

Burial Indexes - Penrith St Andrews Baptisms and Burials 1605-1660

Parish Registers - Penrith St Andrews Baptisms and Burials 1605-1660

Burial Indexes - Barton St Michael Burial Register 1668-1830

Burial Indexes - Bolton All Saints Burial Registers 1663-1809

Monumental Inscriptions - Holme Eden St Pauls and Warwick Bridge St Wilfrid Monumental Inscriptions

Pen and Sword Books - Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records

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All parish data in one convenient location. You can use the parish map to find data for each parish, including a description of the parish and the facility to search the IGI directly using the batch numbers for that parish. Details of records held by the county archive are available. Members have an area to display thier interests for each parish to others and a private area to keep notes about any parish.