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Crimean War Research Society

Descendants of the Knights of the Bath

Ecclesiological Society

Family & Community Historical Research Society

To promote and communicate research in family & community history within a scholarly framework, with particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based and micro studies.

Friends of Friendless Churches

Friends of Gibraltar Heritage

Guild of One-Name Studies

Located in London, England, U.K. The world's leading organisation for one-name studies. A one-name study is a project researching facts about a surname and all the people who have held it, as opposed to a particular pedigree (the ancestors of one person) or descendancy (the descendants of one person or couple).

Heritage Railways Association

The Heritage Railway Association represents the majority of Heritage and Tourist railways and Railway Preservation Groups within both the U.K., and Ireland.

Historic Chapels Trust

International Society for British Genealogy and Family History

Westminster, Colorado. ISBGFH exists for anyone who is researching British ancestry and to help unravel the mysteries of research overseas, and to share research available on a worldwide basis.

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

Kindertransport Association

Organization of child holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.

Manorial Society of Great Britain

Mills Research Group

Research into aspecta of traditional milling, whether it be by wind, water or muscle power.

National Association of Memorial Masons

Trade organization of British monumental masons.

National Council on Archives

National Federation of Cemetery Friends

Groups of volunteers dedicated to preserving their local cemeteries.

National Railway Historical Society, UK Chapter

Police History Society

The Police History Society was founded in 1985 and now has over 350 members world-wide, although most are in the U.K. They include serving and retired members of police forces, academics, librarians, writers, police forces and police related museums and people from many occupations who have an interest in police history.

Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War Two

Project Roots is a voluntary agency based in the Netherlands which reunites Canadian Veterans with the British and European War Children they left behind at the end of World War Two.