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Anglo Italian Family History Society

Did your Italian-born ancestors live in or pass through England, Scotland, Wales or Ireland after moving from Italy? Our Society, run by volunteers, aims to guide you in their footsteps and in those of their descendants as they move between places of origin and settlement. Content, is regularly updated and it will also help you learn about your ancestors' place within the global Italian diaspora.

Anglo-Italian Family History Society

Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Archives

The Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA) is the professional organisation promoting high professional standards in the field of genealogy and historical research in England and Wales. AGRA is also prominent as a representative voice in matters relating to genealogy. All Members and Associates agree to abide by a stringent Code of Practice.

BIGWILL - British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois

An organization of individuals (mostly from Wisconsin and Illinois) who are interested in British Isles ancestry and genealogical research in the British Isles.

British Agricultural History Society

British Association for Local History

British Association of Paper Historians

British Isles Family History Society - U.S.A.

Los Angeles, California. Promotes an interest in family history particularly relating to British Isles ancestry including those from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, & the Isle of Man.

Canterbury and York Society

For over a hundred years the Canterbury and York Society has been pre-eminent in the publication of editions of English medieval ecclesiastical records. Since 1904 the Society has been producing volumes which are lasting works of scholarship, used and enjoyed by both amateur and professional historians.

Caribbean Family History Group - Solihull & Birmingham

Catholic Family History Society

United Kingdom.

Catholic Record Society

The Catholic Record Society was founded in 1904 to make available the material necessary for the study of the Roman Catholic history of England and Wales since Reformation.

Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain (The Royal Bastards)

Federation of Family History Societies

Located in the United Kingdom. Supports, informs and advises membership, which consists of family history societies and similar bodies across the world.

Guild of One-Name Studies

Located in London, England, U.K. The world's leading organisation for one-name studies. A one-name study is a project researching facts about a surname and all the people who have held it, as opposed to a particular pedigree (the ancestors of one person) or descendancy (the descendants of one person or couple).

Indian Military Historical Society

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

Provincial Grand Lodges of England

Links to the individual web sites of the Masonic Provincial Grand Lodges.

Quaker Family History Society

For family historians with Quaker ancestors from the British Isles.

Railway & Canal Historical Society

Founded in 1954 to bring together all those interested in the history of transport, with particular reference to railways and waterways in Britain, its main objects are to promote historical research and to raise the standard of published history.