WELCOME TO THE ONLINE HOME OF THE FAMILY HISTORY SECTION of THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
If the roots of your family tree are planted firmly in Yorkshire, you should find something to interest you here.
Member of The Federation Of Family History Societies.
Registered charity No 224083
Site last updated 2nd August 2020
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SATURDAY LECTURES DURING THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
The lecture programe for the April 2020 onwards meetings at the Swarthmore Education Centre is suspended until further notice.
Refer to this website's "Diary Dates" page (link above).
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THE YORKSHIRE FAMILY HISTORIAN
The Spring/Suumer 2020 issue of the Yorkshire Family Historian is has been delayed until later in August owing to production problems at our printers as a result of the limitations consequent on the Coronavirus pandemic earlier in 2020.
We apologise for this loss of a point of contact for our membership.
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POSTAL AND TELEPHONE CONTACT
The Section's permanent headquarters are at:
Family History Section
Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society
Stringer House
34 Lupton Street
Hunslet
Leeds
LS10 2QW
Telephone (0113) 245 7910
E-Mail: yahs.office@gmail.com
Website: www.yahs.org.uk
Office Hours
Please note
The offices at Stringer House are not open every day and it is strongly advised that you first email (yahs.office@gmail.com) or telephone (0113 245 7910) if you have any queries or are thinking of visiting.
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EXCHANGE JOURNALS
A list of the Societies with whom we exchange our journal now appears on the Journal page of this website (Link above on the right).
Please note that many societies are now only exchanging electronic copies of their publications, usually in PDF format.
Contact the Sections Exchange journals co-ordinator for further information. (yorkshistorian@btinternet.com)
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ACCESS TO THE FORMER CLAREMONT LIBRARY & ARCHIVE MATERIALS
The former Claremont Library materials are now located at the University of Leeds Brotherton Library; some of the more popular items have been relocated at the Leeds City Central Library.
The YAHS's Archived Collections formerly at Claremont are now located at the University of Leeds Library's Special Collections (within the Brotherton Library).
The materials at the University are now accessible online.
A list (not an index) of YAHS archives now in the University
Library's Special
Collections can be searched online (which was not the case when it
was in Claremont). See https://library.leeds.ac.
The YAHS library collection, which hasn't yet been fully
accessioned, will be found on the Brotherton Library catalogue:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/
THE YORKSHIRE FAMILY HISTORIAN
The Section is actively looking at circulating the Section's magazine, The Yorkshire Family Historian, in electronic format (PDF) to those members willing to co-operate in this modern method of distribution. If you are willing to take the Historian by electronic delivery please contact us at the dedicated mailbox: yorkshistorian@btinternet.com
PROJECTS
The Projects page has been updated to cover the on running work being undertaken by Section Members. Please click on the "Projects" tab at the top right of this page.
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