AGM 2022
WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Registered Charity No. 290284
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General Meeting of Wiltshire Family History Society will be held on Saturday 17 September 2022 at Nursteed Centre, Nursteed Road, Devizes, SN10 3AH commencing at 3.15pm.
The business of the meeting will be to receive the annual report of the Executive Committee as Trustees, to receive the accounts of the Society for 2021/22, to elect the members of the Executive Committee other than the six Branch Representatives for the ensuing year, to re-elect or elect where necessary the President and Vice-Presidents of the Society for terms of six years, and to transact any other business on the agenda to be circulated at the meeting.
Proceedings and election of officers will be in accordance with the Constitution.
Nomination forms for the elections may be obtained from the General Secretary by post or by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. They should be signed by the proposer, the seconder, and the nominee and reach the General Secretary by Saturday 3 September 2022.
A copy of the accounts may be obtained prior to the AGM from the General Secretary at the Resource Centre upon receipt of a stamped addressed envelope after 31 August 2022.
Preceding the AGM, at 2.00pm there will be a talk by Ann King on ‘The Turnpike Roads of Wiltshire’, to which all members are invited.
Wiltshire Local History Month
Wiltshire Local History Month - May 2022.
If you live in or near Wiltshire, see the booklet for talks and exhibitions around the county throughout the month. Plenty there for family historians
1921 Census
Zoom talks hosted by WFHS branches
Talks about the newly-released 1921 Census by FindMypast specialists on Zoom: Devizes (18 Jan), Westbury (27 Jan) and Swindon (10 Feb) branches. Note that places can be limited, so please see their Branch pages for more information about attending this talk and any other Zoom talks they are hosting.
The Genealogy Show - Live (really - now!)
The Genealogy Show Live is online now and until midday 5th December (UK time).
Wiltshire FHS is there to chat to, and there are other organisations and a long list of speakers.
Visiting it gives access to view the talks for a month. Amazing opportunity. Take a look and don't forget to come and chat with us.
Membership as a gift
Have you ever thought a friend or relative would enjoy a year's membership of our Society?
Well, anyone can now buy a membership subscription for someone else. It is available on our GenFair stall.
Perhaps that's a festive gift sorted?
New Free Name Indexes
To compliment two of our recent CDs / downloads free name indexes have been released for them. They are for CD37 Wiltshire Tithe Awards and CD40 Wiltshire Asylums.
New publications - Wiltshire Asylums
Four new publications have recently been released, all concerned with Wiltshire Asylums. They are:
CS130 – Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway) Burials 1852 – 1966
CS131 – Wiltshire Asylum (Roundway) Admissions and Discharges1851 - 1919
CS132 – Fisherton Anger Asylum Admissions and Discharges 1813 - 1913
CS133 – Box, Calne, Fonthill, Laverstock and Market Lavington Admissions and Discharges
More information is on our GenFair stall. There are over 27000 records in the series. Some patients had more than one period in an asylum.
A free name index is available on this website.
The four publications have also been merged into a single CD / download CD40. Also available through GenFair.
Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre website access
You may have noticed that we have left the EU. Does this affect family historians interested in the archives of the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre(WSHC)? Yes it does.
The website address, its url, has changed. If you try to access www.wshc.eu the site will not be found.
It is now www.wshc.org.uk
Even the link through Wiltshire Libraries has not been updated. The links on this website has been updated.
New publication - Alvediston Manor Court records 1633-1887
| The latest in the series of Manor Court Records has been published, as a softback book or as a download. Both versions can be purchased from GenFair or by post from the Publications Officer at Resource Centre |  |
Wiltshire Strays updated
We have recently added over 1900 marriage records to the Strays Index. These are marriages that took place outside Wiltshire, but either the bride or groom was from Wiltshire.
The full data set is available to members who have logged in. A name index to the records is available to all in the 'Free Indexes to our Publications' page, accessed through 'Publications'.
