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Catholic Family History Society

United Kingdom.

Catholic Record Society

United Kingdom & Ireland.

Child Migrants Trust

Over 130,000 children had been deported from Britain and shipped off to a new life in distant parts of the Empire. This long history of compulsory migration ended in 1967 when post-war child migration drew to a close. The Trust provides a highly professional, specialised service, reuniting Britain

Crimean War Research Society

Descendants of the Knights of the Bath

Ecclesiological Society

Families in British India Society (FIBIS)

For people researching families and their social history in India from 1600 until the present day. Includes any area covered by the East India Company or was ruled by the India Department: the Republic of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Persia and the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Malaya, etc. Includes a free database of more than a million and a half records of those who went to India from 1650s to partition in 1947 - includes those who lived, worked, were born, married and those who died in India. The database is growing all the time as volunteers transcribe more and more documents.

Family & Community Historical Research Society

To promote and communicate research in family & community history within a scholarly framework, with particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based and micro studies.

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.

Friends of Friendless Churches

Friends of Gibraltar Society

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).

Heritage Railways Association

The Heritage Railway Association represents the majority of Heritage and Tourist railways and Railway Preservation Groups within both the U.K., and Ireland.

Historic Chapels Trust

International Society for British Genealogy and Family History

Westminster, Colorado. ISBGFH exists for anyone who is researching British ancestry and to help unravel the mysteries of research overseas, and to share research available on a worldwide basis.

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

Kindertransport Association

Organization of child holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.

Manorial Society of Great Britain

Mills Research Group

Research into aspecta of traditional milling, whether it be by wind, water or muscle power.

National Association of Memorial Masons

Trade organization of British monumental masons.