Federation of Family History Societies
- Federation of Family History Societies
The Federation of Family History Societies is a United Kingdom-based charitable organisation.
Its stated principal aims are "to co-ordinate and assist the work of societies or other bodies interested in family history, genealogy and heraldry; to foster the spirit of mutual co-operation, by sponsoring projects in these fields".
It represents over 200 family history societies and similar genealogical organisations. It also owns an online genealogy bookshop and over 64,000,000 records searchable online from data supplied by family history societies.
The current administrator is Maggie Loughran.
External links
* [http://www.ffhs.org.uk/ FFHS website]
* [http://www.genfair.com/shop Genealogy Publications]
* [http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/ Family History database] "aka" FamilyHistoryOnline
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