You know you are hooked on Family History when:-






CEMETERIES
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• your 5 year old daughter points out cemeteries whenever we're in the car and asks if we've got any dead people in each cemetery. ~ you are on vacation and your children yell "Speed up Dad" when they see a cemetery in the distance.
  
  
• you hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery.
  
  
• you'd rather browse in a cemetery than a shopping mall.
  
  
• most of your holiday pictures were taken in a cemetery.
  your only outdoors activity is traipsing through cemeteries.
  
  
• you send Christmas cards with a picture of a cemetery on it
  
  
• you are at your father's funeral and you ask people you have never met, "And your parents are who?"
  
  
• you have to update your genealogy files BEFORE you attend the funeral of a family member.
  
  
• you drive through the county of your family's origin and the car keeps breaking at each cemetery regardless of who is buried there.
  
  
• you open the trunk of your car to place the groceries and always you have to explain to the policeman that you didn't see his blue lights or hear his siren because you were busy looking at directions to the lost cemetery. 

Have you spotted that our Leaflet and Pamphlet collection is growing?

We now have:-
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Each pamphlet can be read on the screen or downloaded and printed as a tri-fold like this one below.​

​Check out the Speaker pages on our Virtual Branch

Have you visited our LFHHS Chorley Virtual Branch yet?
 
Our speaker is the centerpiece of our Branch meeting where we learn about Family History, Social History our Local History from a range of experts
 
Here on our Virtual Branch, we use videos, articles, and pamphlets to build up our knowledge

Go and see for yourself at http://www.lfhhschorleybranch.com/speakers.html

Speakers
 
 





These pages take the place of our speakers in our virtual world


Videos - A collection of videos, both homegrown and from the internet
 
 
Top Tips for Beginning English Family History Research
​ | Ancestry

DNA and Family Tree Research

FamilySearch.org: 5 Tips for Free Genealogy Research (2020)

​1939 Register: The Perfect Place to Start Your Family History | Findmypast
 
Many more to follow


Articles - A collection of articles on a range of topics 
 
Collections of Articles
GenealogyInTime Magazine
Family History Daily
Family Tree Magazine

Individual Articles
Archives
Catholic Research
DNA
Documentation and Preservation
Events in History
Irish Research
Newspapers
Photographs
Reform and Suffrage
Starting Family History
War and Military


We are constantly adding to our stock of articles 

Pamphlets - A collection of pamphlets on a range of topics
 
Stuart Clewlow Pamphlets
Stuart is a local Chorley Historian

Bolton to Blackpool Dance Trains
Chorley Terriers
Euxton Remembers
WW2 Air Crashes
Euxton Then and Now
WW2 HMS Ursula
WW2 Local Air Raids
WW2 Local Fundraising
WW2 Local Summary
 
A range of pamphlets from LFHHS Chorley Branch and
LFHHS Chorley Family History Research Centre

Beginners
Census

This is work in progress – many more in the pipeline

Visit http://www.lfhhschorleybranch.com/speakers.html

Findmypast have added over 116 million new records to their exclusive collection of english and welsh electoral registers says Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Leading family history website Findmypast have announced the online publication of over 116 million records of English and Welsh voters in association with The British Library. 

This vast update forms the second phase of Findmypast’s exclusive England and Wales Electoral Registers 1832-1932 collection and is the largest single release published by Findmypast this year. 

​Read more

Our 'Chat' pages provide us with a range of different ways we can keep in touch and chat 


Blog
Our Chorley Branch Blog - we will use this to keep passing you information.  This also feeds to our Facebook page and to twitter

Email Group
Our Email group in which you can send an email to it and everybody in the group can see and respond. 

Video Conferencing
A page which will explain how we will use video conferencing for committee meetings, one to ones and for virtual talks.
Be patient - this is all new to us!!! 

Facebook
Our Chorley Branch Facebook page

Email Forum
Our Society Email Forum to keep in touch with the rest of the Society –
Members Only
 

Have you visited our LFHHS Chorley Virtual Branch yet?
 
Every Branch meeting wouldn’t be complete without our Help Desk where you can ask questions and seek advice.
 
Here on our Virtual Branch we have recreated the same functions
 
Go and see for yourself at http://www.lfhhschorleybranch.com/help-desk.html
 
Help Desk
 
Our virtual Help Desk is here to help you with your research
 
Queries
​If you have any queries or need any help with research, send us an email and we will see if we can help
 
Hints and Tips
Little nuggets of information to help you with your research
 
CFHRC Online
Chorley Family History Research Centre has an online function
 
Look Ups
In association with the LFHHS Chorley Family History Research Centre, we are offering lookups of our Frank Hough Mining Archive, Chorley and Adlington Burial Records, Military articles in the Chorley Guardian
 
Useful Websites
A link to the Chorley Family History Research Centre's Website Hub and a list of websites submitted by members
 
LFHHS Name search
​Over the last forty years, LFHHS members have transcribed millions of records which have then been published on microfiche, in booklets, on websites and on CDs.
This list will become the central index to find where a given name can be found and then to provide details of how the record can be accessed whether on fiche, CD, book or website.
It does not replace the existing record but it will provide a lead to what records we have for a given name and where the information can be found.
As a first step, we are adding our CDs then other sources will follow. We expect it will be a work in progress for several years.
 
Certificate Search
Our Certificate search provides details of certificate donated to the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society, which are available to purchase. Once you find a certificate you will have the option to submit a request to purchase the certificate.
 
Surname Index Search
​Our Surname Interest search provides details of surnames being researched by members of the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society, usually specifying a particular period and county, and often a locality within the county.
Once you find a surname you will have the option to submit a request to the researching member for collaboration.
 
Access to Pedigrees
​This service is only available to current members of the society.

Check out our Help Desk at 
http://www.lfhhschorleybranch.com/help-desk.html