The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society can help you research your Lancashire ancestors. 

The main aims of the Society are:

		To advance  the study of genealogy, heraldry, and family history.
		To find, publish, and make accessible relevant documents and records.
		To promote the preservation of these documents and records, especially by transcribing original sources.
		To collaborate with organisations and bodies who have custody of records.
		To operate an information service and build up a library.

Formed in 1973 as the Rossendale Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (Lancashire), the Society now has twelve centres in Lancashire, together with one in London where members meet regularly. There is also an Irish Ancestry section . The society also has a worldwide community of family historians with roots in Lancashire. Please check out the benefits of membership for yourself.

The site is arranged in seven main sections with links from every page.

Help includes basic information about  how to get started in family history. It also Includes help about using the website. There is also a section showing the pages that have changed or been added in the recent past.

Lancashire deals with information about the County of Lancashire - its area, sub districts and history. It is a County having significantly different boundaries at different times in its history. At present this section is under development, and more pages are to be added.

The Society has information about  branch meetings throughout the County, together with information about joining.This section also covers the resources and premises of the Society.

Shop is one of the most popular areas, and has sections for the sale of microfiche indexes to census,  parish registers, monumental inscriptions and other data compiled by members of the Society. It also has a section on books about family history in Lancashire, and other items available only from the Society. At the present time we are not able to offer live online payment, but credit card payments by mail are accepted.

Download has freebies to help with your research - Chapman County Codes, Famous dates in history, and so on.

Links - a collection of links to other websites of interest to family historians in Lancashire.

Contact - a "who's who" of the society, with email addresses for the people you need to contact.

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