Leicestershire 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.

Regional Societies
Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society


 * The Society has an excellent Research Centre situated in Leicester. We have six groups of the Society which are all run by Sub-Committees who organise monthly meetings with talks on a wide range of family history subjects. They are located in Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Rutland, and the Computer Group who meet bi-monthly.

Wigston/Leicester Age UK Oadby & Wigston Hawthorn House 51 Paddock Street Wigston Leicester, Leicestershire LE18 2AN UK Email: [mailto:leicester@lrfhs.org.uk leicester@lrfhs.org.uk]

Loughborough All Saints Church Thorpe Acre Road Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 4LF UK Email: [mailto:loughborough@lrfhs.org.uk loughborough@lrfhs.org.uk]

Hinckley St. John's Church Centre 351 Coventry Road Hinckley, Leicestershire LE10 0NF UK Email: [mailto:hinckley@lrfhs.org.uk hinckley@lrfhs.org.uk]

Rutland The Meeting Room St. Joseph's Catholic Church Station Road Oakham, Rutland LE15 6QU UK Email: [mailto:rutland@lrfhs.org.uk rutland@lrfhs.org.uk]

Market Harborough Roman Way Day Centre Conference Room 36 Roman Way Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16 7PQ UK Email: [mailto:harborough@lrfhs.org.uk harborough@lrfhs.org.uk]

Computer Group Age UK Oadby & Wigston Hawthorn House 51 Paddock Street Wigston Leicester, Leicestershire LE18 2AN UK Email: [mailto:computers@lrfhs.org.uk computers@lrfhs.org.uk]

Research Centre Unit 4B Pilot House King Street Leicester, Leicestershire LE1 6RN UK

General Enquiries Telephone: 0116 2857211 Email: [mailto:secretary@lrfhs.org.uk secretary@lrfhs.org.uk] Website: Leicestershire & Rutland Family History Society

Lincoln Record Society Robert Hardy Building Bishop Grosseteste University College Longdales Road Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN1 3DY UK Email: [mailto:communications@lincoln-record-society.org.uk communications@lincoln-record-society.org.uk] Website: Lincoln Record Society


 * The Society was founded in 1910 to print records and documents relating to the ancient county and diocese of Lincoln. The ancient diocese covered not only Lincolnshire, the second largest county of England, but also the wide area which lay within the medieval diocese: the counties of Lincoln, Leicester, Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham, Huntingdon and northern Hertford. Since 1910 the Society has published ninety nine volumes many of which are still in print.

Wesley Historical Society - East Midlands Website: Wesley Historical Society - East Midlands


 * The aims of the Society laid down in 1893 were to promote the study of the history and literature of early Methodism, research into the Wesley's, and investigation into the beginnings and development of Methodism. Area: Leicestershire, Loughborough, Derby, Nottingham.

Leicestershire Societies
Loughborough Archaeological & Historical Society Email: [mailto:secretary@loughboroughpastandpresent.org secretary@loughboroughpastandpresent.org] Website: Loughborough Archaeological & Historical Society

Tilton & District History Group Website: Tilton & District History Group

Vaughan Archaeological & Historical Society Website: Vaughan Archaeological & Historical Society