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January 9, 2025

Ridgeway Park Cemetery in 2025

Following our successes last year, we are delighted to be continuing our association with the Friends of Ridgeway Park and Street Goat. Work parties this year will generally be on the 4th Saturday of the month from 11am-1pm. See our events page for the next date. All are welcome!
January 7, 2025

Wills for Family History

A Happy New Year to you all! We invite you to join us for our first members’ meeting of 2025, our 50th anniversary year, when Jackie Depelle will be talking about how Wills can provide many clues and signposts to additional source material when building a family tree. The meeting is on Zoom and starts at 7.30pm – members will be sent the link by email.
December 14, 2024

Taking your genetic genealogy further?

For those of you who were inspired by Donna Rutherford’s talk last Monday, Ancestry DNA is having a special deal offering its kits for £39 each until 16 December – this offer appears to be available via Facebook rather than on the Ancestry site. The other DNA companies are also offering competitive prices at this time – worth a search. For those of you who missed the talk, there is a very similar one on Youtube by Donna which you could watch.
December 11, 2024

Research Room – Christmas opening

This is to advise you that our Research Room is open as usual on Wednesday 11th, Thursday 12th and Saturday 14th Dec but will then be closed until Wednesday 8th January  2025 when normal hours will be resumed.

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About BAFHS

Founded in 1975, we are a well established Family History Society focussing our activities on Bath, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (the former county of Avon 1974 to 1996) and its constituent predecessor and successor counties. We are also frequently referred to by our initials - BAFHS. The hub of our activities is our Research Room where enthusiastic volunteers give their time for the benefit of the Society.

What we do:

  • Encourage the public study of family history with reference to the historic county of Avon and its successor counties.
  • Publish a quarterly Members' Magazine (available in digital or paper format).
  • Transcribe and publish source material of interest to family historians.
  • Hold regular in-person and online meetings with a programme of illustrated talks and lectures.
  • Operate a Research Room where advice and resources are freely available.
  • Operate this website which is dedicated to family history.
  • Organise outings to places of interest.

Members:

Members are at the heart of our Society. By becoming a member, you will be joining a like-minded group of people who support our work. There is also the opportunity to become actively involved with a wide range of activities - you'd be surprised what it takes to run a modern family history society. It is quick and convenient to join online.