The Rossendale Society for Genealogy & Heraldry was established in Bury in April 1973.
A branch at Lancaster was formed as the Lancaster Family History Society on 15th of March 1984 
Since then, members have accumulated a vast amount of local knowledge relating to Genealogy.
Some of our branch projects are to be also produced in the pdf format
we would recommend that you have the latest version of Acrobat reader installed on your computer,
below you will find a clickable icon to download the FREE reader and also a sample file
The sample file will be the memorial inscriptions at the Friends Meeting House, Lancaster.
***Three major events are to be held on Lancaster & Morecambe over the next six months***
Brochures and booking forms are available below to download.
The first is our Family History Awareness weekend on April 17th & 18th
Then our Digital Projects Seminar on June 12th
and finally we are hosting the Societies Annual Dinner on July 4th.
This will be Sunday Lunch at the Midland Hotel Morecambe,
as this event is likely to be over subscribed, we recommend that you reserve your place NOW
Download the booking form and send it to with your remittance to Sheila as as soon as possible
We are very please to place a link on our website to the monthly newsletter from the
Chorley branch. Chorley has, over the years, been at the forefront of
training and education in the field of genealogy,
I feel sure that you will find useful tips and advice in their regular publication by editor: Jenny Cree  

Click for the latest free reader	L F H Weekend April 17 & 18	Digital Seminar June 12th	Lancaster Quakers
	LFH&HS Dinner 4th July	Society publications list	Society Fiche List
	Chorley Newsletter Feb 2010

The branch has transcribed a lot of the Parish registers of this part of North Lancashire,
there can be few grave yards in the area that have not been recorded by our famous 'Dead Club'

All the Lancaster & Morecambe Census returns 1841-1901 have been collated, and, although they can now
be readily accessed on the internet, our own indexes sometime find persons missing on the internet index.
The branch fully transcribed the 1881 census for this area in collaboration with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Today this 1881 census for England, Scotland & Wales is available free of charge on the internet at www.familysearch.org and at Libraries and at our branch thanks to Family History Society
volunteers in the UK. You can still get your own personal set of 24 CD's for the 1881 UK census

Most of the project work that has been undertaken locally in the past 26 years is published by our
Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society, it is in either Book or Microfiche form and now in CD format,
we still have a lot of data that has yet to be published and members can ask for a search of this data. 
The full list of Projects that the society has available are to be found on the
Lancashire Family History & Heraldry main web site www.lfhhs.org.uk
Microfiche can be ordered direct from fiche@lfhhs.co.uk 

The resources held by the branch and its member are too numerous to be listed here
but we do hold a vast Library of Books, Microfiche and CD's that members may borrow.
Most of our Lancashire Society projects that are on microfiche are now housed at
Morecambe reference Library and any researcher,
member or non-member, can have free access to view them.

All members have FREE access to the societies
Resource and Research Centre
2 Straits, Oswaldtwistle, BB5 3LU
(250 yards from Oswaldtwistle Mills)
see: LFH&HS Resource and Research Centre  for more details and bookings