Welcome To The Shop
Welcome to the Shop! Selecting items through the steps described below will allow you to place items in your shopping basket and then go to the check out. Postage and packing costs, determined according to weight and destination, will be calculated at the check out and displayed before final payment.
RESEARCH AIDS
The Society has developed two modestly priced research aids, one relating to the history of a family, through a tree, and the other relating to the history of a house, building up a picture of the building itself and the families that have lived there.
GENEALOGY BOOKS
We also have third-party books related to the history and genealogy of the HDFHS area. These are very useful for reference materials and also perfect as presents! Various subjects including biographies, local histories, place and name guides and aspects of family history research.
CENSUS RETURNS
A team of society volunteers in the 1990s spent many painstaking hours transcribing information from the 1841 and 1851 censuses and we continue to be grateful for their hard work. Before this work could commence on the 1861 census, subscription websites made it all available online and so it was decided not to continue. Whilst it is sites such as Ancestry and Findmypast that many family historians go to as a first link to the censuses, these transcriptions continue to provide a very useful set of additional records to place family groups in particular areas and to enable the researcher to find possible members of the same family in nearby areas.
The Society has now made these transcriptions available for sale as downloads which may be opened in Microsoft Excel.
We have grouped common areas together, for example the Holme Valley is provided as individual spreadsheets in census township areas within a larger file. The breakdown of locations is as follows:
Batley Dewsbury & Mirfield: Batley, Dewsbury, Mirfield, Foothill, Thornhill
Colne Valley: Golcar, Lingards, Linthwaite, Marsden, Scammonden, Slaithwaite
Denby Dale and Surrounds: Clayton West, Cumberworth with Cumb. Half, Denby Dale, Emley, High Hoyland
Holme Valley: Austonley, Cartworth, Fulstone, Hepworth, Holme, Honley, Meltham, Netherthong, Upperthong, Wooldale
Huddersfield & Surrounds: Almondbury, Dalton, Fixby, Huddersfield, Lindley cum Quarmby, Lockwood, Longwood, South Crosland
Kirkburton and Surrounds: Farnley Tyas, Flockton, Kirkburton, Kirkheaton, Lepton, Shelley, Shepley, Thurstonland, Lower Whitley, Upper Whitley
Spen Valley: Cleckheaton, Gomersal, Hartshead cum Clifton, Heckmondwike, Hunsworth, Liversedge
Please click on the appropriate link below to see the full range of downloads available.
MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS
Memorial Inscriptions are the records written on gravestones and monuments. These can be valuable sources of information for linking together family group members and those who died in infancy or childhood. If you are interested in volunteering to collect more of these records, have a look at the ‘Help Us’ section.
NON-CONFORMIST CHAPELS
Within the Society’s geographical area of interest there was a rapid and strong rise of the non-Anglican, Chapel movement, in various shapes and sizes. These were known as non-conformist establishments and our catalogue can be browsed through the buttons below.
Over a number of years the Society has developed a large collection of transcription booklets, generally available as Booklets sent by mail. In late 2024 the HDFHS Committee moved to replace the hard copy booklets with digital downloads, primarily of the PDF files for the original booklets, but also with an increasing move to Excel downloads with improved content. For non-conformist chapels, the two buttons below direct you to the digital downloads and, on a decreasing scale of availability, the original booklets, which will incur postage costs.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND PARISH RECORDS
As with the non-conformist chapel records, the Society is replacing hard copy parish record booklets with digital downloads, primarily of the PDF files for the original booklets, but also with an increasing move to Excel downloads with improved content. The two buttons below direct you to the digital downloads and, on a decreasing scale of availability, the original booklets, which will incur postage costs.
The list of available files may well be long, so a first useful step with these records is to determine the location of interest. The Anglican, or Church of England, locations are grouped under the name of the then prevailing Ancient Parish, sometimes referred to as the Mother Church, in which they were located. In the section below, click on the Ancient Parish in the list on the left or the map, to see what collections are available. If you have an interest in a specific location but you are not sure in which Ancient Parish it is situated then check our places page for more information.
