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 15th July 2017
STOP PRESS
The 2017-18 Meetings Diary is now online. Go to the "Diary Dates" page on this website.
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The Society moved to its new headquarters at the beginning of March.
Our new home from the 6th March 2017 is at:
Suite 10E
Josephs Well
Hanover Way
Leeds
LS3 1AB
The former Claremont Library materials are now located at the University of Leeds Brotherton Library, some of the more popular items are 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 (in the Brotherton Library).
The materials are now accessible.
THE YORKSHIRE FAMILY HISTORIAN
The Section is actively looking at circulating the Section's magazine, The Yorkshire Family Historian in electronic format 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
The 2017-18 Meetings Diary is now online. Go to the "Diary Dates" page on this website.
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The Society moved to its new headquarters at the beginning of March.
Our new home from the 6th March 2017 is at:
Suite 10E
Josephs Well
Hanover Way
Leeds
LS3 1AB
Contact
Office (0113) 245 7910
Office Hours
PLEASE NOTE
The Joseph's Well Office will be manned on a part-time basis only. Please telephone to check before you visit. ---------------------------------------------------------The former Claremont Library materials are now located at the University of Leeds Brotherton Library, some of the more popular items are 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 (in the Brotherton Library).
The materials are now accessible.
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 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
The Yorkshire Roots website is being slowly upgraded, this
is work in progress at this time. We hope to have a new website up
and working later in 2017.