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

The Society will have a stall at the Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library on the Saturdays or the North Chingford Heritage Festival

Our next meeting, on 8th July will be a workshop on records for family history research in other parts of the British Isles. This meeting will take place in the church hall at 8pm.

You can search our records on-line at records.wffhs.org.uk
St John's, Leytonstone marriage registers up to 1935 have been added to the database.
Two registers of St Mary's, Walthamstow marriages 1905 to 1909 have also been added.