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Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS)
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Kent Family History Society

KFHS - your local society for Kentish genealogy (Please note new site address).

Live in the Deal/Dover area? Why not come along to the new Deal and District Branch of the KFHS and see what the society has to offer. Please e-mail us at bill<at>eastkent.freeuk.com for more details.

Check out what's happening at the Medway Branch.

Visit the Canterbury Branch site.

Existing KFHS members only - join the Global Branch (e-mail group) by sending your name, membership number and e-mail address, with a request to "subscribe", to kfhs-subscribe<at>maillist.ox.ac.uk. Remember, this service is for existing KFHS members ONLY! If you are researching in Kent, why not join the Society and enjoy the benefits that membership can bring? more details ...

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Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS)

79-82 Northgate, Canterbury, Kent. CT1 1BA

Telephone : 01227 768664
Fax : 01227 765617
e-mail : librarian<at>ihgs.ac.uk
website : http://www.ihgs.ac.uk

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Ancestors of Dover

www.ancestors.co.uk - Genealogy, heraldry, pewter and other products, based in the old Belgrave Road Methodist Chapel, off Folkestone Road, Dover.

Canterbury Cathederal Archives

Telephone : 01227 865330
E-mail : archives<at>canterbury-cathederal.org

Dover Public Library

Maison Dieu House, Biggin Street, Dover. CT16 1DW

Telephone : 01304 204241

Deal Public Library

Broad Street, Deal. CT14 6ER

Telephone : 01304 374726

Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages

The Family Records Centre

1 Middleton Street, London, EC1R 1UW

This service, provided by the Office for National Statistics and the Public Record Office, is the main facility for personal visitors, and can provide help and advice to family historians on the use of their extensive collection of genealogical records. Copies of certificates of birth, death and marriage may be purchased for any entry in the indexes, which date from 1837 and cover England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own record offices).

For full information on the facilities provided by the PRO, including details of how to obtain certificates if you cannot visit the FRC, see http://www.pro.gov.uk/genealogy/certificates.htm

See our registration page for more information on civil registration and where to find the records.

District Offices for East Kent

Please note: district offices are very busy and do not have the staff to cope with the demands of genealogists - wherever possible, requests for certificates should be made to the central office (see PRO website). Local offices no longer supply copies of certificates.

Thanet District (covers Dover, Deal, Eastry, etc., and Thanet)

68 Ellington Street, Ramsgate.

Telephone : 01843 591417

Ashford District (covers Folkestone, Shepway, etc., and Ashford area)

Elwick House, Elwick Road, Ashford.

Telephone : 01233 624666

Other useful sites

Bygone Kent is a monthly magazine founded in 1979. Besides an index to back issues the web site has the largest listing of Kent local and family history books on the web and a very useful links page to Kent village sites and many others. (awaiting new website address)

RootsChat is an on-line discussion group with separate message boards for each county.
Useful Links to Kent Genealogy

GENUKI - the first place to visit for information for the UK and Ireland

Web Site on Genealogy Sources for Kent, maintained by Maureen Rawson

The Kent Street Directory Website, maintained by Steve Dadd - also contains a page on mining in Kent

Visit the Ancestry Hometown for loads of goodies

Genealogy Gateway links to hundreds of genealogy sites and personal web pages

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet

Name indexes on the Faculty Office Licences and Vicar General's Marriage Licences

Find your Down Under relatives in the Australian White Pages

Find out what your ancestors died from in this short dictionary of archaic medical terms

For information about life in Victorian England, try this site

Acadian Genealogy Home Page

Canada GenWeb Project

Canadian Genealogy and History)

Government of Canada - with links to Provincial and Territorial primary web sites

Government Information in Canada

Province of British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid

Province of Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid

Lost an ancestor in WW1 or WW2?

Find out about life in the trenches of World War 1 or download a picture from the WW1 collection at Swedish University

Find out where and when your ancestors died and where they are buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. By providing the surname (or part thereof - minimum required for search), initial, war or year in which they died, service and country of origin, you can obtain a list of matching names from the register with details of regiment and date of death. For any individual on this list you can obtain details of where and when they died and where they are buried, along with any other information that is available on the register. You can also print out a memorial certificate. Be prepared for a long loading time on this site, as the pages contain some fairly large pictures.

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Personal Genealogy sites

If you would like us to put a link to your Genealogy site here, please e-mail us with your home page URL. A reciprocal link to our home page from your site would be appreciated - simply copy and paste the following HTML code into your page:

<p>Check out <a href="http://www.eastkent.freeuk.com"> Bill & June Beer's Genealogy and Local History Pages </a></p>

Mike Young (KFHS Member) - includes a new gallery of photos of Kent submitted by KFHS members

Bill Marsh (Canada) - researching the MARSH family in KENT - please note: this site has moved!

Chris Ashman (Kent) researching various names in Kent, including ASHMAN, BEER and MARSH

Ken Elks (Kent) - researching ELKS and related lines including MARSH

Kit Withers - researching various names including MARSH - site no longer available

Colin Penney (Kent) - please note: this site has moved!

Lin Johnson (Kent) - site no longer available

Ken Sparnon (Tyne & Wear) - researching SPARNON and related lines

Russ.Merredew - Kentish Russell, Reeves, Thomas, Trowell [West] & Read, Gibbs, Worthington [East]

Helen and Mark Bishop - Helen and Mark's Genealogy Home Page including some Kent families

This attractive new site on the history of Dover was produced by Dubris Design - please note: this site has moved!

HOLMANS family, maintained by Les Holmans

Kevin Jennings' family has links to High Halden, Biddenden, Deptford, Blackheath and elsewhere in Kent.

Barry White has created a very useful site including many East Kent parish register transcriptions in downloadable form - site no longer available

Underground Kent

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Miscellaneous Sites (non family history)

Royal Marines - site dedicated to ex-bandsmen

The Victorian Web - for information about the Victorian age.

For an independent view of the area from a local resident, visit Paul Turvey's Dover pages.

News and views of Wingham, Kent.

Staple (Kent) - maintained by John Kirk

Wisdom Solutions (web design and other services)

Archie's Place - a database of ex UK coal miners worldwide, maintained by Alan Andrews

Reciprocal Links (commercial)

Folkestone to Calais - Just visit eurotunnel.com and you'll be saving money as well as time. It's so simple.

Doverweb - "The aim of this site is to promote Dover's business community and raise awareness of Dover as an important historical town and tourist destination." Well worth a look.

Cinque Ports Music, Walmer

Marathon Microfilming Ltd - for microform readers and supplies

Andrew Baker - UK family history researcher

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Last updated Tuesday December 29, 2009