As this site is quite large, this page is devoted to listing all the pages and details of what can be found there.

Home Page

This page is an introduction and tells about the Centre and where it is situated, and details of how we can be contacted. There is also a short history of the Havant area and where we get our name from.

About us

Here you will find who our elected officers are.

Membership

Here are the details of how anyone either locally or many miles away, can be come a member. Many people think that we just concern ourselves with the area around Havant, but this is far from the truth as our interests are those of our members and spread worldwide.

Publications

We publish many publications - another indication of how wide our interests are. We only stock publications that we have produced and these are all listed on the Publications page together with details of how they can be obtained. We have to remind people that we can only accept cheques made out in pounds sterling and we cannot fulfil an order unless the postage and packing is enclosed with the cost of the publication(s) as stated.

CDs Available

We have now started producing our own CDs and this page lists those available. We have a huge project running at the moment to produce CDs for all the major churches in Hampshire which will take a long time to complete, but details of new ones that become available will be listed on this page.

Parish Registers Updates

Here you will be able to see listings of the Hampshire Parish Registers being transcribed by members and ultimately put on to CDs for sale. A listing is also posted to show three levels of how the transcribing is going. As each one is completed it will appear on the CDs section of this website.

The Spring Drop-ins

Details of our new Heritage Centre meetings at the Spring, Havant.

Indexes

This is the page that gives examples of how some of our indexes are laid out when they are published. Many of our indexes are not published because they are very large, not suitable for printing and copyright problems etc. All those listed on the publications page are in stock and available for purchase.

Our Diary

This page contains details of all the places and activities we have planned for the coming year in addition to our regular meetings, talks etc. If you happen to be around when we are in your vicinity, then come over and say "Hello" - we will be very pleased to meet you.

The Link-up Journal

A summary of the contents of the current quarterly Link-up journal.

News, News and more News

This is the page that brings to the forefront any news that has been recently published to do with anything useful in the field of family history research.

Could it be?

The page dedicated to people in history where there is a doubt as to where they met their end.

Searchers

Many of our members are looking for help in the same way as many other people, and all are willing to share information that they have gathered which may be of use to others. It's a kind of 'information exchange' and there are details of the names that several members are researching.

Collections

Being updated

Databases and Records

This page shows examples of databases and records that are in the process of being collected together to be published. At present we are doing a massive checking of all of parish records for Hampshire with a view to publishing a number of them.

World War Two

This section is all about the city of Portsmouth and Gosport in the Second World War and carries the listing of all the citizens who died in Portsmouth on the night of 11th April, 1941. This listing in full and with all the other citizens who died during the war is now published in book form. There is also a companion book which covers Southampton and is also published. Both books are now also on CDs.

The Exploration Game

This section is all about buildings of various kinds that have some significance in the history of Hampshire ranging from follies to the forts in the Solent through to the tunnel shelters built for World War Two.

Record Offices

This page gives full details of the Record Offices in Hampshire, their addresses, opening hours, web sites etc.

Useful Websites

A whole collection of useful websites for the family historian are listed here and as more are created, they will be added to the list.

New at the TNA

This page is updated monthly with the latest news from The National Archives.

Picture Gallery

Some photographs from our recent exploits!

ASWE Apprentices Roll

Page being updated but will contain a list of all the apprentices together with some details who served their training period on the top of Portsdown Hill, north of Portsmouth.

Photograph Copying

Details of how you can take advantage of our new photograph and picture copying service either at exhibitions or by post.