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Family history resources
Need help?
Are you interested in researching your family tree or the
history of your house? Medw
ay
Archives and Local Studies Centre (MALSC) can help you.
Staff at the Studies Centre are always happy to help you but if
you are just getting started on building your family tree or need
advice on how to progress further then additional help is
available. Volunteer members of the Medway branch of the Kent
Family History Society (www.kfhs-medway.org.uk/) are
on hand at the Studies Centre every Tuesday and Thursday morning
from 9.30am to 12noon. Come along and they will be pleased to offer
you advice and support. They also run occasional courses on
researching your family history. Please ask MALSC staff for the
dates of future courses.
MALSC resources
The following resources of particular 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
AncestryLibrary.com. The latter is also now available at all
branches of Medway Libraries.
- 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;
- photograph collections including MedwayImages
online.
Visiting MALSC
Visit us at Clock Tower Building, Former
Civic Centre Site, Strood, Kent, ME2 4AU.
Please phone the Studies Centre in advance of a visit as
some of these resources a
re available online or in microform only
and you will need to book a computer or microform reader in
advance. Telephone: 01634 332714
If you cannot visit the centre, then our enquiry service may be able to help you.
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