Chronicology

10/09/2025

Save the date for an exciting event! Registration for RootsTech 2026 opens on September 24! Whether you’re newly curious about family history or an expert genealogist, this global conference is for you. Don’t miss out—mark your calendars now!

https://www.addevent.com/event/wT26276552

10/09/2025

Our next online research surgery is tomorrow Thursday 11th September where we will be covering parishes of Benwick, Chatteris, Doddington, Manea, March, Welches Dam, Welney and Wimblington. Our March Branch rep and expert on all things March and Doddington, Dave Edwards, will be there to answer your questions as well as Sue and Andrew from the Chatteris Museum . Book your place now!
https://www.chfhs.org.uk/march-chatteris-area-online-research-surgery-508

10/09/2025

AGRA is an organisation representing professional genealogists and archival researchers in England and Wales. https://www.agra.org.uk/about

04/09/2025

Well slap me happy, I've just received my ratified marks back and I can now announce that I have qualified for the MSc in Genealogical, Palaeographic and Heraldic Studies with Distinction at the University of Strathclyde!

5 years ago, I started this course on a part time basis to eventually qualify and become a professional genealogist after a period of change where I knew I needed to be doing something which gave me joy. I was unhappy in Corporate life, but knew the change would be a steep learning curve, not only in subject, but also in the changes this would bring to my work practices, finances and situation. Family History brings me that joy.

In May 2022, I set up my first ever business and have been writing professional client reports for over 3 years - over 80 completed so far whilst studying! I could not be happier and I'm looking forward to what the future brings 🥰🥰

Roll on Graduation in November!

07/08/2025

From parish pews to pixels – discover Suffolk’s past like never before thanks to our partnership with Ancestry

Historic records from the Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich will be available to search online for the first time from 8 August.

Find out more https://orlo.uk/xijdK

07/08/2025

I had the pleasure of joining a tour of the Curious Cures: Medicine in the medieval world exhibition at Cambridge University Library with members of the Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Family History Society, provided by the curator James Freeman. What an absolutely fascinating collection highlighting changes and ideologies around how to heal people over the centuries. Some of these manuscripts dated back to the 11th century. There was even a place for women in medicine and some crackers ideas on how the body functioned as well as some insightful considerations.

07/08/2025

We are taking a break in August, so there will be no online or in person talks. The new talk programme is now available to view and book on our website, so head over and secure your place. Coming up: Tracking down photographs of your ancestors, The Pye Story, An introduction to the records available at Cambridge University Library and Victorian Entertainment
If you are in the area, our in-person talks are held at March Library: Women in Medicine, Freedom of Information for Genealogists, From Home to the Western Front and Station Road March Cemetery.

05/08/2025

MyHeritage no longer supports DNA file uploads.

In the past, it has been possible to upload DNA files from other sites such as Ancestry, 23andME and other into MyHeritage for free in order to double your DNA matches and support further DNA analysis.

MyHeritage have now announced that this will no longer be possible and people will have to purchase their own kit. They do have a deal right now where you can purchase a DNA kit for £29.

For Cypriot research, I would still recommend doing both Ancestry and MyHeritage tests to support family history research. With a lack of records in the public domain, both of these sites do house a large number of the Cypriot community who have done their own tests and the more testers with their own trees, the more likely it will be that others now and in the future and explore their own heritage.

01/08/2025

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01/08/2025

The Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Parish Registers have been available on Ancestry for a couple of weeks now and I hope you have made some new discoveries!

Here is some information to help you make the most of this new record set.

You may have noticed that some parishes or years are missing. Ancestry scanned all registers held at the archives - if parishes or later registers are missing this means that the register is held elsewhere, either at the parish church or a different archive, or it was deposited after Ancestry had completed scanning.

Ancestry scanned up to 1932 for baptisms, 1957 for marriages and 1997 for burials.

We know that the following registers were NOT scanned:
Swavesey (still held by the church)
Toft (still held by the church)
Coates & Eastrea (still held by the church)
Hamerton (at the archive but deposited after Ancestry finished scanning)

Coldham
Elm
Friday Bridge
Gorefield
Guyhirn with Rings End
Leverington
Murrow with Southea
Newton in the Isle
Parson Drove
Tydd St Giles
Upwell
Wisbech
have all been deposited at the Wisbech Museum. They have been digitised and are available to members of CHFHS.

The "Not Stated" you can see when you browse the collection is Burrough Green.

Caldecote, Chesterton and Conington have not been separated into the Hunts and Cambs villages so be aware!

18/07/2025

17/07/2025

🚨🚨Ancestry related Klaxon!! 🚨🚨🔍🔍🔍

Ancestry has just released over 4 million entries relating to Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire!

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/catalog?searchOrigin=navigation_header