Our Aims

Medway Branch of KFHS aims to help members discover and compile their family history. We actively welcome new members to join the fifty or so who regularly attend our meetings. Invariably there will be someone at a branch meeting who will have the answer to your brick wall, or ways and means of surmounting it.

What the Branch does

Medway branch of KFHS holds regular monthly meetings with speakers on a variety of Family and Local History subjects on the last Thursday of the month at 1:30pm for 2:00pm start at the Library, Bryant Road, Strood.

We run beginners courses in conjunction with the Medway Archives & Local Studies Centre. (MALSC

On Tuesdays and Thursdays between 09:30am-12:00noon we provide a rota of volunteers at MALSC to help with family history queries.

We organise coach trips to The National Archives at Kew, SOG etc

We work with Medway Register Office to index old birth, marriage and death registers

We work with Medway Crematorium to index burial and cremation records.

We help man KFHS stands at local and national family history fairs and shows.

Brenda Paternoster indexing a nineteenth century birth register.

This photo was taken at the old Register Office in Maidstone Road. Medway Register Office has since relocated to Rochester - and we have a more up to date computer to work with.