About Us
The Family History Partnership is a small group of family historians who are passionate about ensuring
that family historians have access to publications of high quality that inform
them of the huge amount of records that are available and where they can be
located.
- Bob Boyd (Chairman). Bob is a self-employed publisher and a former Chairman
of the Oxfordshire Family History Society and of the Federation of Family History
Societies (FFHS) Publications Board.
- Terry Walsh (Sales & Distribution Manager and Partnership Secretary). Terry is
well known to many family historians as the former manager of the Federation of
Family History Societies Publications Depot at Bury. He is a familiar face at major
family history fairs and prides himself on providing a first class service to all
customers.
- Jeremy Gibson (Author). Jeremy is one of the most respected local and
family historians in the world. His famous “Guides” have been part of the family
history scene for over 25 years and the FHP is delighted to have his support. Since
the FHP was formed, Jeremy has produced no fewer than five new editions of his guides,
some of which have been out of print for more than 10 years.
- Stuart Raymond (Author). Stuart is one of the best known family history
writers who has produced a prodigious number of books over the past 20 years. He
began his career as Librarian of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society before he
started writing books for local and family historians. His latest bestsellers are
Family History on the Web (2008/9), Irish Family History on
the Web, Netting Your Ancestors and Introducing Family History. He is also a regular contributor to the
National Archives magazine Ancestors
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Jane Starkie (Author/Marketing). Jane has been tracing her family history since
1968. She is a former member of the Federation of Family History Societies Executive
Committee and of its Publications Board. For many years she helped on the FFHS Bookstall
working alongside Terry and was latterly a member of the FFHS Publications Commissioning
Group. Her book about family history for teenagers and
young adults, Hw 2 *t ur Fmly Hstry, was
published in August 2008..
- Brett Langston (Webmaster). Brett is well known in the North West and
works in the Cheshire County Record Office, and was formerly webmaster for the
Family History Society of Cheshire.. He has written several books on family
history including A Handbook to the Civil
Registration Districts of England and Wales and collaborated
with Jeremy Gibson and Brenda Smith in compiling the second edition of Local Newspapers 1750-1920.
- Richard Ratcliffe (Author). Richard is a well known family history lecturer
and former Chairman and Archives Liaison Officer for the FFHS. He is also President
of both the Birmingham & Midland Society for History and Genealogy and of the Lincolnshire
FHS. Although “retired” he is currently working part-time as Archivist at Westminster
Methodist Central Hall. He has written three Basic Facts booklets on
Methodist Records, the Wesleyan Methodist
Historic Roll and Quarter Session Records.
The Family History Partnership was formed in 2007 and is registered at
Companies House as a Limited Liability Partnership. It has already embarked on
an ambitious publishing programme but is keen to receive suggestions for new
publications and draft outlines of books from prospective authors. Proposals
from authors who are interested in self funding suitable publications are
particularly welcome.
We believe that there
should be printed information available at a reasonable price that promotes good
practice
in research and in writing up family histories that will be of great help to
future generations.
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