North West Kent Family History Society
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North West Kent Family History Society
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We are one of Kent's and the UK's premier Family History Societies - if you want to find out more why not take a look at our website:
https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk
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Can you help run our Society? We urgently need to fill a number of volunteer roles within the Society including a Chair, further details can be found on what’s involved below. Please feel free to contact the Society if you are able to help in any way #NWKFHS
If you are not a Society member now is a brilliant time to join - because joining now gives you membership until 31 Dec 2026. It is still only £10 to join.

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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Here's a handy guide (Ancestry take note):

1660-1822 The original church on Pancras Road = St Pancras parish church
1822-today The new church on Euston Road = St Pancras parish church
1848-today The original church restored and named Old St Pancras church (no marriages solemnised there until 1859).
November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Having just read a refence to a marriage taking place at "St
Pancras’ Old Church in 1854" in an otherwise excellent article about a case of bigamy, I thought it might be worth revisiting my blog about the St Pancras churches.

It's easy; the 'old' church is (kind of) the newer of the two...
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got…
I realise that I’m running the risk of sounding like a broken record here but it seems like there’s always something else to say when it comes to assessing the work of the major commercial genealog…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Kent Archives will be closed from Monday 1st - Sunday 14th December whilst we conduct essential collections work.

During this time, our Search Room will be closed to the public and we will not be accepting enquiries.

Normal service will resume on Monday 15th December.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
13 November Zoom Talk: Artificial Intelligence and Family History with speaker Andrew Redfern

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This talk is for everyone who is interested in exploring the exciting possibilities of AI in the realm of family history research.
#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
Zoom Talk: Artificial Intelligence and Family History with speaker Andrew Redfern
This talk is for everyone, beginner and experienced genealogist alike, who is interested in exploring the exciting possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in the realm of family history research,...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Remembrance Day, a day to remember all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. So take a moment to pause, reflect and honour those who served and continue to serve our country.
We will remember them. Lest we forget #LestWeForget #PoppyDay #RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
12 November 10.30am Zoom Talk Migration Throughout the UK with speaker Debbie Bradley
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#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.’
‘All Gave Some, Some Gave All - We Will Remember Them”
#RemembranceDay #RemembranceDay2025 #PoppyDay
A day of reflection, remembrance and gratitude
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
12 November 10.30am Library DNA and General Family History Discussion Group with Pam Goddard
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#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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During the summer of 2025 I visited the WW1 battlefields and I made a promise. At every cemetery I visited, I would choose one individual, not known to me, and tell their story. This is the first of those stories.
#WW1 #RemembranceSunday #Military #Genealogy

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The Story of Second Lieutenant Clement John Byron, Honourable Artillery Company
One of the unknown soldiers I promised to honour……. During the summer of 2025, I had the privilege of visiting the battlefields of the Western Front to honour and remember three members…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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From a 'flight of fiery whirlwinds' to a 'perfect umbrella of fire', this programme from November 1883 suggests that C. T. Brock and Co's fireworks display in #Ramsgate was a feast for the eyes – and a health and safety nightmare, no doubt!

Happy #BonfireNight 🔥
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November 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Fright-seeking residents of Kent need not travel far this #Halloween. Allegedly home to over twelve spectres, the village of #Pluckley near #Ashford is said to be the most haunted in England. Visit at your own peril…

To learn more, click ALT ☟

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October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Announcing our final lunchtime talk of 2025!
Monday 10th November, 1-2pm
📍 Kent History & Library Centre, #Maidstone

'Recreation, health and competition: Sport in Victorian Kent' presented by Dr Catherine Budd.

Book your free seat today:
📧 archives@kent.gov.uk
☎️ 03000 420 673
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Sevenoaks Branch 8 November The life of Helen Thomas and Otford in the 1920s with Alan Williams
Doors open 10.45am meeting starts 11am

Otford Village Memorial Hall 28A High Street, Otford, Kent TN14 5PQ

www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv...
#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Effective 17 November 2025, the fee charged by the Government Find a Will Service
[ www.gov.uk/search-will-... ] will increase from £1.50 to £16 per document.

I suggest that you use the next week to order any wills you know you want before the price hike!
Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales)
Search online for a will, grant of representation or probate document for a death in or after 1858
www.gov.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
5 November 10.30am Zoom Discussion Group with Ann Clarke: Did you have unusual occupations in your family?

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#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
FindMyPast are offering FREE ACCESS to millions of military records for the weekend of 7-9th November

#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Dartford Branch 1 November AGM and Family History Day

See the Journal or the website for the full day AGM and speakers' programme: www.nwkfhs.org.uk/events/overv...

AGM is 10.30am
Dartford Science and Technology College, Heath Lane, Dartford Kent DA1 2LY
#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
Annual General Meeting and Family History Day at Dartford Branch Venue
The AGM combined Notice, programme and booking form was enclosed in the June Journal. If you are coming please book so we know how many chairs to put out. If you want lunch, booking is essential....
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October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Final local group spotlight for October is the Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society!

The objective of the Local History Group is to encourage the study of Tunbridge Wells and its past. For more information visit: www.thecivicsociety.org
The Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society
The Royal Tunbridge Wells Civic Society
www.thecivicsociety.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Just a few more hours until the society's latest online lecture!

Medieval and historic graffiti at Rochester Cathedral
Jacob Scott will be revealing 900 years of history as told through the inscriptions, scratches and marks on the walls and piers Rochester Cathedral.
Medieval and historic graffiti at Rochester Cathedral
The next in a series of online talks hosted by the KAS, Jacob will be revealing 900 years of history as told through the inscriptions, scratches and marks on the walls and piers of Rochester Cathedral and the ruins of the cathedral Priory of Saint Andrew.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Can you help run our Society? We urgently need to fill a number of volunteer roles within the Society including a Chair, further details can be found on what’s involved below. Please feel free to contact the Society if you are able to help in any way #NWKFHS
June 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Over two million service records of those who served in the British Army infantry division during the Second World War are now available online via Ancestry and will be freely available to view in the lead-up to Remembrance Day.
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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#31DaysOfGraves #27 Trees

This is the gravestone commemorating my wife's 2x Great Grandfather, Hermann Hirsch in the Jewish Cemetery in Waibstadt, Baden-Württemberg.

The question is, is the tree attacking the stone or supporting it?
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Is it just me or does anyone else see an inheritent design flaw with Friers Bridge?

Map: The county of Suffolk, surveyed by Joseph Hodskinson, 1783

@natlibscot.bsky.social maps.nls.uk/view/262718411
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM