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 meeting on 9th September will be an on-line talk, by Gill Blanchard titled Crime on Record

You can search our records on-line at records.wffhs.org.uk
August update: Transcriptions of registers of St Mary's, Walthamstow marriages 1909 to 1913 have been added to the database.