Membership

Membership of the Society is available to anyone with an interest in family history, but is particularly relevant to those who have ancestors who were born in, or who worked in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire.

The advantages of membership are:

1. You can attend meetings and benefit from the talks (see programme) and discus your research problems with other members .
2. You will receive a quarterly magazine, the Bod-Kin.
3. You can submit your research interests and have them published in our Directory of Members' Interests.
4. If you do not live in the Bradford area you can make use of our Link Scheme, whereby a local member will undertake to do limited research on your behalf on an expenses-only basis. Details of the Link Scheme will be sent to you with your New Member's Pack.

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Meetings

The Society has two meetings each month, all held at Shipley Library, 2 Well Croft, Shipley.

One is held on the first Thursday in the month and the other in the evening of the third Monday in the month. They both begin with tea/coffee, the opportunity to talk and discuss research problems. This is usually followed by a speaker.

The balance of topics is basically the same for both meetings.

• Basic sources, e.g. parish registers, census returns, wills, cemetery registers.
• Specialised sources, e.g. maps, quarter sessions, newspapers.
• Religious sources, e.g. Church of England, Methodist, Quaker.
• Background, e.g. textiles, workhouse, domestic service.
• Occupations, e.g. miners, railwaymen, police.
• Organisation and care of family history material, e.g. photographs, documents.
• Local visits, usually in the summer months.
• Open meetings, at which members bring along extracts from their own family tree or problems which they hope other members can help them to solve or collections of memorabilia which may be of interest to members, etc.

Click here to see the year's programme of the above.

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Members' Interests

Society members can submit their own research interests to be published in the Directory of Members' Interests. Supplements containing the interests of members who have recently joined and updates of existing members are published with the quarterly magazine, the Bod-Kin.

If you are already a Member of Bradford FHS, or wish to submit your own Members' Interests with your Application Form, you can download a Members' Interest Form by clicking here.

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Membership Fees

Although the Membership Year runs from January 1 to December 31 members will receive all four issues of the quarterly magazine, the Bod-Kin, whatever time in the year they join.

The annual membership fees are:

All payments, whether by cash, cheque, Postal Order or Money Order MUST be made in Pounds STERLING.

Click here to download and then print the Banker's Form (PDF 88KB) if you wish to set up a Banker's Standing Order to pay your Membership Fees.

Alternatively, you can pay on-line by credit card at the GENfair website.

Membership Application Form

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If, after reading this web site, you still have queries about membership,
please email them to the or write to the address below, but please include a stamped self-addressed envelope or, if writing from overseas, an International Reply Coupon (IRC).

Mrs S Hodgson
Membership Secretary, Bradford F.H.S.
14 Greenville Drive
Low Moor
Bradford
West Yorkshire BD12 0PP
England

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