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Next Meeting July 17th - Eric Jackson "The Pontefract Murder"

Pontefract and District Family History Society is an active group of family historians who live in Pontefract and the surrounding area. Most of us have family interests in the region and have good local knowledge. We are happy to help beginners and new members alike and we welcome new subscriptions at any time of the year.
We are always pleased to hear from members or potential members and will do our best to be of assistance.
The Pontefract FHS is run by volunteers. We regret we cannot undertake personal research projects. General enquiries are always welcome and you are welcome to make use of our Search Service and Publications List

As well as Pontefract, which includes the Chapelry of Knottingley the areas of Carleton, East Hardwick and Tanshelf, we also cover the ancient parishes of Castleford, Ackworth, Badsworth, Birkin, Brayton, Brotherton, Darrington, Featherstone, Felkirk, Ferry Fryston, Hemsworth, Kellington, Kippax, Kirk Smeaton, Ledsham, Methley, Monk Fryston, Normanton, Sherburn in Elmet, South Kirkby, Womersley, Wragby and the towns and villages within them.

	Maps showing the area covered by Pontefract and District FHS
	Information about individual parishes

Dates for your Diary

The Society hosts a meeting, usually with a speaker, on the third Thursday of each month, (except August & December) at Micklegate Methodist Church in Pontefract. Meetings are free for members; guests are always welcome a small fee is requested.

We have the 1881 Census on CD Rom for the British Isles, the 1841 - 1871, 1891-1901 census S&N CD ROM's, the National Burial Index, and many books, booklets and maps available for loan from our library at every monthly meeting to Members.

2008 Meetings Programme

BBC Who do you think you are magazine request.... Read on

Links to other websites have been added. These include sites of local interest, national interest and general and/or commercial sites involved in family or local history. Inclusion of a link on this site does not infer endorsement by Pontefract & District FHS, its Officers, Committee or Members.

Other Sites of Family or Local Interest

With a current membership, you get a password that gives you full access to the Members Only website (sent with your membership or membership renewal). More new material is added when available

Contents list of the Member's Only Website

We also now have an interactive message board with news, a section for anyone interested in family history in the Pontefract area and another for Society members only. To post a message, you need to register - its a bit tedious, but you only have to do it once and create a username and password. It's completely FREE.

Check out the PDFHS Message Board

The Society's journal, The Bridge, is published and sent out free to members four times a year. It is packed with articles and snippets, some examples of which can be found in our articles section:

Articles

Members of the Society are very active and we now have over 350 published booklets, with many more in progress. We are always interested to hear your ideas of what publications you would like and are delighted to welcome new transcribers, data inputters or people willing to check typed transcripts.

Our ever growing number of Society publications are available for sale through our bookstall, also at every meeting and at Fairs throughout the year.

Our list of available publications has recently been given a new look, all Parish Register transcripts & indexes are now arranged by Parish to show what is available for each one.

	See our list of Publications Updated June 2008
	Monumental Inscriptions Surname Index NEW (A surname index to our larger MI publication sets)
	News on forthcoming publications Updated 29th June 2008

Current members' interests are published bi-annually in a Members' Interests booklet (2008 edition just out) and in each issue of The Bridge. Some members can be contacted by email from this site:

Members' Surname Interests Updated June 2008

Please note that communications with the Society should include a self-addressed envelope or IRC if from overseas. We will reply as soon as possible. Some things do go astray in the post; in the unlikely event that you do not get a reply within 8 weeks, please contact us to let us know.

Please contact the site maintainer if you find any broken links, have any suggestions or problems.

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