BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP

Journal

All members receive our free Quarterly Journal with interesting and informative articles on local places and people, a notice board for help wanted and offered, and forthcoming events etc.

Members' Interests

Members receive a free annual edition of Members’ Interests (the surnames our members are researching) to help members share information on common ancestral trees. We offer a choice of a paper copy or an e-mailed pdf copy for viewing on your computer.

Members are encouraged to send in details of people they are researching and these are added to our list of Members' Interests. New Interests and changes are published in each Journal. Members' Interests are also published  in the public area of  this website and are therefore available to the widest possible audience. Click here to search Members' Surname Interests.

Members wishing to advise us of any changes of personal details or surname interests should contact the Membership Secretary.

Meetings

For full details of meetings please see our Meetings page.

Our meeting fee is £2 for members and £3 for guests (a slightly increased fee may be charged for some speaker meetings). These charges are exclusive of any charges made by Nuneaton Library for use of computers and printing. 

At our meetings you will be able to make full use of the society's and the library's resources and purchase society publications. Help and advice is available from experienced genealogists and local historians. We can help you to get started in family history, suggest ways that you can break down brick walls that you might have come up against, tell you about local life at the time your ancestors were living here and put you in touch with others who share your ancestors. There is a great deal of genealogy on the internet nowadays most of which is uncorroborated. We can help you to confirm or refute what you have been told and to put flesh on the bones of your family tree names by showing you how and where to access original records.

Please note that a degree of computer competency is required at our Nuneaton Library research meetings . Our volunteers can help you with your family history but there is not time at these sessions to teach basic computer skills.

Help Desks

We also hold free help-desks on the third Saturday of each month at Atherstone Library 2:00 - 4:00 pm and on the first Monday of each month at Kingsbury Library 10:00 am till 12:00 noon. 

Website

This website has a "members' only" area which all members can access using their log in and password.  The Photos and Pictures Gallery also contains some images, such as those in the 'War Memorials' gallery, which are only accessible to members. The members' only area contains copies of the journal from 2008 onwards plus a number of research and other resources including: a presentation on how to start your family history; a downloadable/ printable booklet to help you begin to record your own family history; information on civil registration and Church of England parish registers for North Warwickshire; a pdf version of our booklet Discovering Your Roots in Nuneaton and North Warwickshire - A Guide for New Researchers; articles on the various towns and villages in our area; transcriptions from a Workhouses Project and our new War Memorials Project. Additional pages are being added regularly.

Publications

Members receive a discount on all purchases of NNWFHS publications.

Microfiche & Reader Hire

Members can hire a microfiche reader and sets of microfiche to carry out their research at home. We have the 1881 census and IGI for a number of counties, the 1851 census for Warwickshire, and a number of memorial inscriptions and parish registers for local churches and municipal cemeteries. For more information click here.

Events & Trips

We organise Open Day events several times each year at which members and the public are welcomed to look at displays of heritage material and members' own work, listen to a speaker and see a photograph show.  We encourage members to send in display material for these open days so non-local members can still be a part of the day.   

We organise occasional trips to local places of interest and to local and national records repositories such as the Family Records Centre in London and the Public Record Office at Kew.

Research Service & Helplines

We offer a limited research service, for members only, of the society’s records and those held by Nuneaton library.  For details please contact  Pat Boucher or Peter Lee our Chairman who also operates telephone, email and snail mail helplines for both general and specific queries on all aspects of family history. 

We encourage reciprocal research amongst our members.  Members are also invited to take part in our current transcribing projects.

Help Wanted & Offered

Members can place requests for help or offers of help in the Help Wanted/ Offered section of our Noticeboard page on this website, or in our quarterly Journal.