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 8th April will be an on-line talk, on dating old photographs by Steve Gill who specialises in photo restoration and photo dating. Have you got photos you can't identify the subjects of, or don't know where they came from? We will learn what the clue are to look for during this talk.

You can search our records on-line at records.wffhs.org.uk