Sussex Societies

Family history societies often publish helpful journals, transcripts, compiled genealogies and host helpful websites. They may have ongoing projects to transcribe records and create indexes. Most societies publish queries in their journals and maintain lists of members’ research interests that may be helpful to you. You may want to join one of these societies, reap the benefits of their expertise and resources, or support its efforts.

Addresses of the societies are for the most part where their meetings are held as they are by-and-large not brick-and-mortar institutions.

Ardingly History Society Hapstead Hall High St Ardingly Haywards Heath, Sussex RH17 6TD UK Email: [mailto:joy.broughton@btinternet.com joy.broughton@btinternet.com] Website: Ardingly History Society


 * The aims of the Society are to stimulate interest in the history of Ardingly: to seek out material of historic interest and to persuade owners of the need to take steps to ensure its presentation: to arrange meetings lectures and other activities to foster interest in the history of the village.

Ashurst Wood Historians St Dunstan’s Hall Hammerwood Road Ashurst Wood, West Sussex RH19 3QU UK Telephone: 01342 323880 Email: [mailto:wendy@keithandwendy.net wendy@keithandwendy.net] Website: Ashurst Wood Historians


 * Ashurst Wood Historians was founded in 1979…“to research and record the history of our village, its landscape, dwellings and the lives of its people through the stories of our residents, past and present.”

Family Roots Family History Society for Eastbourne & District Telephone: 01323 502432 Email: [mailto:secretary@eastbournefhs.org.uk secretary@eastbournefhs.org.uk] Website: Family Roots Family History Society


 * Genealogy is a fascinating, but sometimes frustrating pastime, but you may just find the name that has eluded you for ages here. Our aim is to promote and encourage the public study of family history and genealogy with particular reference to persons living in or associated with the Eastbourne area and the preservation.

Hastings and Rother Family History Society Ore Community Centre Old London Road Ore Village Hastings, East Sussex TN35 5BH UK Telephone: 01424 437493 Email: [mailto:hrfhsenquiries@btinternet.com hrfhsenquiries@btinternet.com] Website: Hastings and Rother Family History Society


 * We are here to help with family research and we believe that means genealogy in its widest sense. We are not only about births, marriages and deaths but also the lives our ancestors lived, the times they lived in and the places they frequented. To this end, we gather together as many resources as possible to find the people and tell those stories.

Sussex Archaeological Society Barbican House Museum 169 High Street Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YE UK Telephone: 01273 486290 Email: [mailto:castle@sussexpast.co.uk castle@sussexpast.co.uk] Website: Sussex Archaeological Society


 * The Sussex Archaeological Collections has been produced by the Society since its inception in 1846, and is a major scholarly contribution to the study of local archaeology and history. The Collections are the first port of call for anyone researching the past of Sussex.  The Society has over 150 volumes completed to date.

Sussex Family History Group Clair Hall Perrymount Rd Haywards Heath, Sussex RH16 3DN UK Email: [mailto:secretary@sfhg.org.uk secretary@sfhg.org.uk] Website: Sussex Family History Group


 * The Sussex Family History Group was founded in 1972. It has about four thousand members in Sussex, the rest of the UK, and around the world. There are five meeting centres in the County at Brighton & Hove, Chichester, Horsham, Uckfield and Worthing. The SFHG has designed and built databases of Sussex Information, Monumental Inscriptions, Marriage Indexes, Census Returns, Parish Records (baptisms, marriages, and burials), strays, members interests, Wills, members own family research and other genealogical information as it becomes available and effort permits. Much of this data is gradually being placed online in our Data Archive, with free access to members.


 * It can therefore be said that the aims of the SFHG include promoting the study of genealogy and family history, and encouraging the preservation, transcription and publication of relevant documents and records.

Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society West Blatchington Windmill Hove, Sussex BN3 7LF UK Telephone: 01903 208975 Email: [mailto:martin@pastfinder.uk martin@pastfinder.uk] Website: Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society


 * Industrial Archaeology is the study of the working life of past generations through the physical and documentary evidence that they left. Industrial Archaeology shades into 'mainstream' archaeology as it goes back through the ages.  It is also bound up with local history, economic history and the history of technology.

Sussex Mills Group Bridge Cottage High St Uckfield, Sussex TN22 1AZ UK Email: [mailto:sussexmillsgroup@btinternet.com sussexmillsgroup@btinternet.com] Website: Sussex Mills Group


 * Sussex Mills Group promotes the study and the restoration of mills and associated artifacts within the counties of East and West Sussex in the United Kingdom.

Sussex Records Society Barbican House 169 High Street Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1YE UK Email: [mailto:richard.martin2083@ntlworld.com richard.martin2083@ntlworld.com] Website: Sussex Records Society


 * The Society commissions research by individuals who are experts in their field to produce historical records in the selected area of research of the County of Sussex in the United Kingdom. The research is published in book form with the help of the Society’s historical, literature, technical, publishing and financial help provided by the members of the Society. Over the last 100 years the Society has published over 90 volumes of detailed historical research into the County of Sussex from 1066 to World War I. This research has also led to the creation of databases, records, images and texts covering many aspects of historical Sussex which are presented as Online Records.

West Sussex Archives Society Pagham Village Hall Pagham Road Pagham, Sussex PO21 4NJ UK Email: [mailto:wsascom@btinternet.com wsascom@btinternet.com] Website: West Sussex Archives Society


 * The Society comprises the Friends of the West Sussex Record Office. The Friends are people who use the Record Office or who wish to help and support in its work of preserving the wonderful archival heritage of West Sussex.