Sussex Family History Group

Sussex genealogical organization

Membership

4,000

Official language

English

Main organ

Sussex Family HistorianAffiliationsFederation of Family History SocietiesWebsitehttp://www.sfhg.uk/

Sussex Family History Group (SFHG) is an organisation with a world-wide membership of about 4,000 founded in 1972 to help those interested in researching their family history in East Sussex and West Sussex. The name reflects the fact that historically Sussex was a single county.

SFHG is a member of the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) and a supporter of the Sussex Online Parish Clerks (OPC) project.^[1]

Publications

The society produces a quarterly magazine Sussex Family Historian for members, containing articles, letters and lists of members' interests and a newsletter, Sussex Links.

SFHG runs an online forum and a comprehensive website with both public and members' areas. The site received the FFHS Best Website Award in 2003-4 and 2007.^[2] The Group's Sussex People Index contains 120,000 entries referring to 230,000 people, all from offline verifiable sources.^[3]

Collections

The SFHG Headquarters and Library are at The Keep, near Brighton,^[4] where one-to-one research support is available,^[5] and the Group sells publications in print and digital format concerning a wide range of genealogical topics as well as those specific to Sussex. Indexes and databases maintained by the SFHG include parish resources^[6] such as baptisms, marriages and burials, as well as wills, tombstones, occupations, censuses and strays (people associated with Sussex found in other areas).^[7]

Activities

The Group holds an annual conference and periodical workshops on specific aspects of family history,^[5] as well as regular meetings in various locations in East and West Sussex.^[8]^[9]

References

^ "Sussex Online Parish Clerks". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ "Sussex Family History Group". Retrieved 23 September 2014.
^ "Sussex People Index". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ "The Keep saves East Sussex archive from exile". BBC. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ ^a ^b "The Keep". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ Paton, Chris (2014). Tracing your family history on the internet. Pen and Sword. p. 111. ISBN 9781473833333. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ Sussex Family Historian. SFHG. September 2014. p. 149.
^ "East Sussex County Council - online resources for family history research". Retrieved 18 October 2014.
^ "West Sussex history groups". Retrieved 18 October 2014.