Archives and local studies

Are you interested in researching your family tree or the history of your house? Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre (MALSC) can help you.

Need help?

If you don't know how to get on with researching your family tree, volunteer members of the Medway branch of the Kent Family History Society (www.kfhsocietymedway.ik.com) are on hand at the Studies Centre every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 9am to 12 noon and also one Saturday morning a month. Come along and they will be pleased to offer you advice and support.

MALSC resources

The following resources of interest to family historians are available at MALSC:

• Medway Ancestors - digitised parish registers of Medway and north-west Kent;
• Census Name Index – a card index of transcriptions of the 1841–1891 censuses of the Medway area;
• free access to online family history resources, including 1841–1901 censuses and birth, marriage and death registrations on www.ancestry.co.uk;
• General Register Office (GRO) Births, Marriages and Deaths Indexes 1837-1960 on microfiche;
• street and trade directories;
• electoral registers;
• local newspapers and an online searchable index to references on the Medway Index to Local Newspapers (MILN) database;
• family history magazines;
• reference books on genealogy;
• building plan registers and building plans.

Visiting MALSC

Please phone the Studies Centre in advance of a visit, as some of these resources are available in microform only and you will need to book a reader in advance.

If you cannot visit the centre, then our enquiry service may be able to help you.

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