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Up to 3 months free membership when you join Kent Family History Society between 1st April and 30th June.

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Do you have ancestors who may have come from, or passed through, Kent?

Kent Family History Society has a long tradition of helping researchers find out more about family, local and social history in Kent.

Our quarterly journal publishes news and articles with Kent connections and explores resources and approaches to research issues.

We have our own Archive and are actively adding to documentation which is made available to our members.

Our online shop sells a variety of Parish Register transcriptions, available on CD or as downloads; Monumental Inscriptions and burials and cremations in municipal cemeteries. We are continually adding to this resource.

Our members are knowledgeable and accessible through an online Forum and email messaging post.

Help is on hand with your research and new members are very welcome!"

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Kent parish registers

We have transcribed over 250 parish registers and census returns from across the county. A range of CDs, with indexes of these records, are available for purchase.

Kent parish registers

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Surname search

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There are 9651 surname interests currently listed by Kent Family History Society members and catalogued in our Society Archive. Are your surnames of interest among them?

Kent parish map

Kent Parish Map

Trying to identify where a Kentish parish is or which parishes border it? Our parish map viewer can help.