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.

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 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.

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 Industrial Archaeology Society Website: Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society

Family Roots Family History Society (Eastbourne & District) Website: Family Roots Family History Society

Hastings and Rother Family History Society Website: Hastings and Rother Family History Society