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Please note that the Camberley meetings in January and March have been swapped. Penny Walters will now be talking in March and the Informal meeting has changed to January. Zoom meetings: more detail on Jan workshop is now available and Ian Currie March meeting is 17th not 10th

	Who are we? We are West Surrey Family History Society (Registered Charity No: 278091). We are a member of the Family History Federation. To see the benefits of joining on our Members Area page and to join us see the Membership page. Our Safeguarding policy can be found here and our Data Protection Policy is here.		Where do we cover? We cover the ancient County of Surrey, both Rural Surrey and the Metropolitan Surrey area, i.e. those parts of the old county of Surrey which are now in Greater London. Our meetings are held in the western part of the County. See the Parish Map, which has a link to pictures of some of the Surrey Churches.		What do we do? We transcribe records for Surrey and publish them for sale. See the Publications page for what we have. You can buy them by post or online through Genfair. We also have a number of Research Aids which can be downloaded FREE. Parish Registers indexes to Baptisms, Marriage and Burials are now available through Genfair to download to your own computer, PDF files. More parishes being added all the time.
	Bookstall Our bookstall attends many events throughout the year. See the Events page to see where we will be.		Surrey Family History Fair On the Saturday of the first weekend in November, usually (this year it will be on Saturday 8th November 2025) we hold a Family History Fair where our Reference Library, Memorial Inscriptions and Members' Interests are available to consult by everyone. The Society's Bookstall is always in attendance.		Meetings We have several meetings centres in West Surrey, where we have talks by experts and Members' knowledge sharing meetings. While most are in the evenings, we also have some afternoon meetings, especially during the winter months. See Meetings for the list of Centres and the talks we are giving.
	Educational Events We also have a number of Education events, including visits to The National Archives at Kew and walks in London. See Events for the visits and walks.		Members Benefits We have a number of services that are available to Members only, including electronic copies of other Societies' Exchange Journals and our Monumental Inscriptions index. These are listed on the Members Area page. Non-members may also view this page to see what benefits are available.		Free Resources We also have some resources which are free to all, including 'Unwanted Certificates', 'Family announcements in Camberley News' and the Surrey Index of Names. See the Free Resources page.
	Our Journal Members receive a quarterly magazine 'Root and Branch'. See the Our Journal page to see what is in the magazine and what we have previously included.		Links If you can't find what you want, see our Links page, which has some useful links to other websites.		Family History Federation We are a member of the Family History Federation. They provide many useful services for family history organisations, including Seminars, Family History Shows, Event Calendars, Speakers and information about useful resources.
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