Welcome to GENEVA

An online calendar of GENealogical EVents and Activities

This calendar is being run jointly on behalf of GENUKI and the Federation of Family History Societies.
Please note that this calendar depends on your Family History Society submitting its events as well as you reading it. If your society's events are not listed, please complain to them rather than to me. If the calendar does not link to any further details, please don't ask me for further information - because I don't have any.
Event organisers should see: how to submit events to GENEVA.

The venue area codes are (mostly) the usual Chapman County Codes. The Rootsweb Helpdesk has a useful list with codes covering the rest of the world. Where it seems more helpful, London postcode prefixes and other variants may be used.
   –   Events prefixed with      have restricted access and are listed primarily for the benefit of other event organisers.

At the end of this page you'll find some other groups' event lists.   2013 2013 2013 Skip to: Jun   Jul   Aug   Sep   Oct   Nov   Dec   2014 May 22 Ilkley, WYK Sources and Research Skills for budding Family Historians May 22 Leeds, WYK Introduction to West Yorkshire Archive Service May 23 SoG, LND Stage 2 Evening Skills Course May 25 SoG, LND Walk: Covent Garden - From Aristocratic Quarter to Brothels & Beerhouses May 25 London, LND FIBIS Spring Open Lecture Meeting May 25&26 St Helier, CHI 35th Anniversary Exhibition May 29 SoG, LND Visit: British Library & India Office Collections May 29 Leeds, WYK Family Tree Maker - Users' Get Together   June 1 Sheffield, SYK Sheffield & District Family History Society Fair June 1 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Welsh June 1 SoG, LND Care & Conservation of your Family History Collection June 1 Shrewsbury, SAL Shropshire Family History 'Open Day'. June 5 SoG, LND A Brief Introduction to Rootsmagic Software v.5 June 8 SoG, LND A Look at Cloud Computing: One Researcher's View of Computing in the Cloud June 8 SoG, LND The Work of the Heir Hunter June 8 Newport, GNT Gwent Family History Society Family History Fair June 12 SoG, LND Walk: Around Ratcliff & Shadwell June 12 SoG, LND Tracing Family in Australia June 15 Bideford, DEV Devon FHS's Summer Special June 15 Wilton, WIL Wiltshire FHS - Southern Family History Day June 16-21 Toronto, ON, CAN Genealogy "Summer Camp" June 19 SoG, LND Walk: St. Lukes with Old Maps June 19 SoG, LND Getting the Most from the Society of Genealogists June 22 SoG, LND Making the Best of the TNA Website June 22 SoG, LND Manorial Records for Family History Research June 22 Churchstoke, MGY Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society Open Morning 10AM-1PM June 25 SoG, LND Annual General Meeting June 26 SoG, LND Visit: Royal Courts of Justice June 28- 29 Sutton Coldfield, B76 Family History Event June 29 York, NRY Yorkshire Family History Fair June 29 SoG, LND My Ancestor Came From Bedfordshire June 29 SoG, LND Nonconformist Ancestors - including 19th Century Sects   July 5 SoG, LND Visit: Waterman's Hall July 6 SoG, LND Drawing up a Family Tree July 6 Tilehurst, BRK Reading FHC Open Day July 6 Leeds, WYK Annual Lecture Day July 7 Elstree, HRT JGSGB 1st Family History Fair July 10 SoG, LND Upstairs, Downstairs: My Ancestors Were in Service July 12 SoG, LND Walk: Nonconformist Cemeteries & Burial Grounds July 13 SoG, LND Sources for Tracing Female Ancestors & Population and Birth Control July 17 SoG, LND Battle of Britain Bunker - Operations Room at RAF Uxbridge July 20 SoG, LND Family Historian Software Practical (intermediate to advanced users) July 20 SoG, LND My Ancestor Came From Westminster July 24 SoG, LND Walk: Bethnal Green with Old Maps July 25 Pool in Wharfedale, WYK Experiencing 15th and 16th Century Palaeography July 25-28 Castleisland, KER East Kerry Roots Festival July 27 Aylesbury, BKM Buckinghamshire Family History Society Open Day July 27 SoG, LND Family Tree Maker Software Essentials - for Beginners & Refreshers June 30-7 July Cork City , COR Ancestral Connections: Names, Places & Spaces July 31 SoG, LND Visit: Tower Hamlets Cemetery July 31 Leeds, WYK Scrapbooking - with Family History in mind? (5 sessions)   August 2-4 Auckland, NZL NZ's Family History Fair 2013 August 3 SoG, LND Researching Publican & Brewery Ancestors August 3 SoG, LND My Ancestor Came from Somerset: Those That Stayed and Those That Went August 3 Chorley, LAN Chorley Branch Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society "Celebration of Family History" August 6 SoG, LND Visit: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Parish Church August 10 SoG, LND Visit: Whitechapel Bell Foundry August 10 SoG, LND Suicide in the Family & Coroners Inquests August 10 SoG, LND Death & Burial in London August 14 SoG, LND Walk: Historic Camberwell August 15 Leeds, WYK Family Historian Review Days (Two sessions) August 17 SoG, LND Latin for Beginners August 17 Pickering, NRY Ryedale Family History Fair August 17 York, YKS Experiencing 15th and 16th Century Palaeography August 19 SoG, LND Family History Getaway Summer School: Breaking Through Brick Walls August 21 SoG, LND Visit: West Norwood Cemetery August 21 Leeds, WYK DNA - Review and Update August 24 SoG, LND Parish Registers: Traditional & Online August 24 SoG, LND How NOT to do your Family History: Helpful Hints for Beginners & Returners to Genealogical Research August 28 Leeds, WYK Family Tree Maker Users' Meeting August 31 SoG, LND In the Name of God, Amen: Wills Workshop August 31 SoG, LND My Ancestor Came from Yorkshire   September 4 SoG, LND Walk: St Giles with Old Maps September 5 SoG, LND Stage 3 Evening Skills Course September 6-8 Hinckley, LEI Exodus: Movement of the People September 7 Newcastle, TWR The National Family History Fair September 7 SoG, LND Jobs for Girls: Women's Occupations Before the Twentieth Century September 7 SoG, LND Suffer Little Children: The Lives of Poor Victorian Children & Paths to Crime September 14 Date changed ... ... to Sat 7 Sep to avoid a clash with The Great North Run The National Family History Fair September 14 Blackburn, LAN LFHHS 40th Anniversary Family History Fair with the NWGFHS September 11 SoG, LND My Ancestor was Jewish September 14 SoG, LND I'm Stuck September 14 SoG, LND My Ancestor Came from Nottinghamshire September 18 SoG, LND Family History Sources at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archive September 21 Doncaster, YKS The Yorkshire Group Family History Fair September 21 Doncaster, YKS    FFHS General Meeting September 21 SoG, LND Society of Genealogists Open Day Library Tours & Advice September 21 SoG, LND London Problems & Solutions September 21 SoG, LND Marriage & Genealogy September 25 SoG, LND Voice Recognition Software & Genealogy September 28 Wisbech, CAM Family History Day September 29 Horndean, HAM Open Day   October 2 SoG, LND Tracing French Ancestry October 5 Woodstock, OXF Oxfordshire FHS Open Day October 5 SoG, LND Heraldry: It's Language, Grants and Inheritance of Arms October 5 Manchester, GTM National One Day Conference & A.G.M. October 9 SoG, LND Charities & Their Records (at The National Archives) for Family Historians October 5 Exeter, DEV Devon FHS's AGM and Conference October 12 SoG, LND Family Historian Software for Beginners & Refreshers October 12 Birmingham, WMD Further Steps - Researching your ancestors before 1837 October 12 Merthyr Tydfil, GLA Glamorgan FHS Family History Fair October 12 Haywards Heath, SSX 40th Anniversary Social October 16 SoG, LND My Ancestor Was a Hatmaker October 18-20 Dublin, DUB Back to Our Past, the Irish genealogy, family/social history experience October 19 Needham Market, SFK Suffolk Family History Society Fair & AGM October 19 SoG, LND Marriage & Courtship in the 1800's October 19 Leeds, WYK Family Historian Users Get Together October 23 SoG, LND Getting the Most From the Library Catalogue (SOGCAT) October 26 SoG, LND Writing Family History - Part 1 October 26 Cambridge, CAM Cambridgeshire Family History Society open Day & Fair October 30 SoG, LND Tracing your Quaker Ancestors   November 2 SoG, LND Tying Down your Immigrant Ancestor November 2 SoG, LND Adoption: Tracing your Birth Relatives (workshop) November 6 SoG, LND Using SOG Data Online November 9 SoG, LND Writing Family History- Part 2 November 9 Batley, WYK Huddersfield and District FHS: Family and Local History Fair November 11 SoG, LND Genealogy for Librarians & Archivists November 13 SoG, LND My Ancestor Was a Shoemaker November 20 SoG, LND Visit: Parliamentary Archives at the House of Lords November 23 SoG, LND Land Records & Muniments, Deeds, Mortgages & Inquisitions November 27 SoG, LND iPhone & iPad for Family History November 30 SoG, LND Debts, Debtors, Bankrupts & Bigamists November 30 SoG, LND The British Library Oriental & India Collections   December 7 SoG, LND Writing Family History - Part 3   2014 2014 2014   January 26 Bracknell, BRK The Bracknell Family History Fair February 20-22 Olympia, LND Who Do You Think You Are? Live Note: Thu-Sat, not Fri-Sun as previously listed March 2 Port Sunlight, CHS The Merseyside & Cheshire Family History Fair March 15 Poole, DOR Dorset Family History Society Family History Day: WWI Centenary Theme March 15 Harrogate, NYK County Record Office Local and Family History Day March 22 TNA, Kew    FFHS AGM & GM April 12 Haywards Heath, SSX AGM & Conference April 26 Dunfermline, FIF SAFHS 25th Annual Conference 2014 May 1-4 St Catharines, ONT, CA OGS Annual Conference 2014 May 10 Pudsey, Leeds, WYS Family History Fair with Lectures May 17 Aberystwyth, CGN Family History Event June 28 Woodstock, OXF Oxfordshire FHS – with the FFHS and TNA – Day Conference – Records from 1914-1918 August 29-31 Basildon, ESS Family History Weekend Conference September 6 Venue t.b.a. The National Family History Fair September 27 Bristol, GLS B & A FHS Open Day October 18 Theale Green, BRK One-day-conference: EarlyTwentieth Century

Some other groups’ event lists:

Guild of One-Name Studies
Society of Genealogists
The National Archives
Archive Awareness Campaign
The Heraldry Society

England

Berkshire FHS
The Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
Cambridgeshire FHS
Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society
Devon FHS
Dorset FHS
Essex Society for Family History
Fenland FHS
Hertfordshire FHS
Huntingdonshire FHS
Kent FHS
Folkestone & District FHS
North West Kent FHS
Oxfordshire FHS
Peterborough & District FHS
London Group of Yorkshire FHSs
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Family History Section

Wales

Clwyd FHS
Gwent FHS

Outside the UK & Ireland

Alberta GS
British Columbia (Canada) Genealogical Society
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (Canada)
British Isles Family History Society - U.S.A.
Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc. (WAGS)

Submitting a GENEVA entry

Items for inclusion in the calendar should be submitted by filling in this web form. If there is need, I (Malcolm Austen) can be contacted by email - geneva@weald.org.uk. The calendar may show an unashamed bias towards events taking place in the UK & Ireland, but don't let that stop you sending me items for inclusion - just as long as they pertain to UK & Irish ancestry.

Event organisers are encouraged to check this calendar when picking a date to avoid clashes with other events in the same area. They are also encouraged to submit an entry for this calendar as soon as a date has been booked so that other organisers know about it and can try to avoid it.

Please note, however, that our policy is:

• not to list regular monthly FHS meetings because they would flood the diary and make those special events much harder to find.
• only to list meetings such as Society AGMs if something more than your normal meetings is taking place such as a fair or conference.
• not to host pages for an event. GENEVA only provides a link to pages already set up by the event organisers.