The Waltham Forest Family History Society was founded in 1978 to bring together and to encourage people with an interest in family history and genealogy. We are a small but friendly society that caters for all those with South West Essex ancestry who might live at a distance, and for those who live locally but whose ancestors came from elsewhere.

The Society has

  • regular talks on family and local history
  • workshops to discuss particular topics
  • visits to archives and museums
  • twice-yearly journal Roots in the Forest
  • collection of magazines and local records
  • projects to transcribe MIs and local records
  • FMP discount

Our next meeting, on 11th March will be a workshop on making sense of BMD certificates. This meeting will take place in the church hall at 8pm.

You can search our records on-line at records.wffhs.org.uk
August update: Transcriptions of the St Andrew's, Higham Hill marriage registers up to 1943 to the database. Waltham Abbey marriages 1933 to 1943 have also been added.