AGM 2026
WILTSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
Registered Charity No. 290284
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General Meeting of Wiltshire Family History Society will be held on Saturday 19 September 2026 at the Nursteed Centre, Nursteed Road, Devizes, SN10 3AH commencing at 3.15pm.
The business of the meeting will be to receive the annual report of the Executive Committee as Trustees, to receive the accounts of the Society for 2025/26, to elect the members of the Executive Committee other than the Branch Representatives for the ensuing year, to re-elect or elect where necessary the President and Vice-Presidents of the Society for terms of six years, and to transact any other business on the agenda to be circulated at the meeting.
Proceedings and election of officers will be in accordance with the Constitution.
A copy of the agenda is available here
Family History Federation - Really Useful Bulletin No 71
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July 2026 Journal
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January
Family History Federation - Really Useful Bulletin No 70
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It is provided free of charge to registered subscribers.
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Family History Federation - Really Useful Bulletin No 69
The Really Use Bulletin is Published by the Family History Federation.
It is provided free of charge to registered subscribers.
Register at www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/#newsletter
2026 Family History Day - Bromham
Wiltshire Family History Society - Family History Day at Bromham June 27th
April 2026 Journal
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January
WFHS WEBSITE NEWS FEBRUARY 2026
BIG NEWS
In 2025, our WFHS President Steve Hobbs found some unattributed sheets of
Bishops’ Transcripts at the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre.
Our Publications Co-ordinator David Chilton has just completed adding these new
parish baptism and burial records to the relevant Parish Registers. He has also
added the new data to the appropriate CMB (baptisms, marriages and burials) files.
The parishes concerned are Biddlestone, Bradford on Avon, Calstone Wellington,
Little Bedwyn, Ogbourne St. George, Shalbourne, Wilsford cum Lake, Winterbourne
Bassett and Woodford. These additional records are available to view as a free
download from the Free Name Indexes page of our website. This will be of interest
to those who have bought one of the Parish Records or appropriate CMB in the past.
Go to the Publications section of our website then Free Surname Index then.
Look for Wiltshire Fragments.
David has also completed a wonderful new facility for those researching their
Wiltshire ancestry. He has now created a single county-wide surname index to over 2
million parish records that appear within our CMB series. This index is freely
available to download from the Publications Index Page on our website.
Look for the Free Wiltshire Surname Index page.
This index will tell you where your surname interests are in the CMB series. This will
be so much quicker than searching all 37 CMB files. You will need to then check the
appropriate CMB files name indexes to complete your search.
Wiltshire Addenda With so much material to transcribe, it has been inevitable that
there have been errors and omissions. The Wiltshire Addenda document will be
updated with any that are reported to us and confirmed. They will not be added to the
already published transcriptions. Do help by reporting and errors or omissions in our
transcripts by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Any of our publications and CMB files can be ordered via the GENFAIR link which is
on the first page of our website.
Good hunting!
Family Tree Maker Tour 2026 Dorset
The Rifles Berkshire & Wiltshire Museum Talk
On the 4th March, The Rifles Berkshire & Wiltshire Museum will be hosting an evening talk by Ian Smith, author of 'War on The Veldt' and a member of the Wiltshire Family History Society. Ian will be talking all about his family history and the research that went into the writing of his book, whilst also reflecting on the Anglo-Boer War on the whole.
This will be held in the 'Regimental Room' between 7pm-8pm (doors open from 6:30pm) and more info can be found on The Rifles Berkshire & Wiltshire Museum website
Evening Talk at The Wardrobe: 'War on the Veldt: The Anglo-Boer War Experiences of the Wiltshire Regiment' - The Wardrobe, Salisbury
Contact
Ross Keel - Assistant Curator & Marketing Officer The Rifles Berkshire & Wiltshire Museum
