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Welcome to WathamAbbeyGenealogy.co.uk the official web site of Abbey Genealogy Enthusiasts (AGE). Here you will find great information on both the history of Waltham Abbey and Essex family history information. Record Office Contact Information

Welcome to WathamAbbeyGenealogy.co.uk

April Newsletter Now Online

We welcome all those looking to research their family history. Whether you come from Essex or Scotland, you a welcome here. All our members are at different stages of their family history, some have only just started and some have been researching for many years.

About Abbey Genealogy Enthusiasts (A.G.E)

Abbey Genealogy Enthusiasts was launched on the 17th November 2004. Initially the idea began when Garth Gregory found that mobility and finance were becoming a problem and hindrance to researching records. Although more information is available on the Internet, a lot of this is in the form of indexes and a certain amount of travel is still involved. Likewise, the cost of obtaining the actual records can also mount up rapidly.

Realising that there would be other people in the same boat he decided a local group, sharing resources and costs, could do a lot more research than on their own. With the help of Lezley Viller, Garth set out to form a local group with the purpose; "To enable those with difficulties, whether physical or financial, to research their ancestry".

Now Abbey Genealogy Enthusiasts meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at Waltham Abbey Library. We are building up a records section of Census, Parish Records, Directories and BMD material. The census returns for the area are already available on site, however, the collection is being expanded to cover the county and other counties that the members are researching.

Previous Family History Outings

London Metropolitan Archives
With only two Saturdays left of being open our trip to the LMA was well worth it. Not everyone had success, however it is better to know you have looked in an area and not found anything than to not know what in that area.

Essex Records Office
A good time was had by all, thanks once agian David who was on hand to answer our questions and show us around the records office showing us where we can find certain records.

London Metropolitan Archives
This was met with great responce, however we would have liked to have more next time. Everyone got something out of day if nothing else we all learnt how to use and search the LMA, which will prove to be well worth knowing when we go back.
Hope to see you all next time....

Essex Records Office
With thanks to David for helping us out on the day we all had a great time. Remebering that even if you find nothing out on the day, you have still had experience of search for records in a "records office".
Keep searching....

Family Records Centre
Great to see so many of you their, I know many of you had some success with finding ancesters Well Done. Lets hope this success continues...
Happy Hunting...

Waltham Abbey Cemetry
As morbid as it seams we all had a good time over the graveyard recording all the gravestones. Our findings will all be on the website soon.

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