Visit to the Society of Genealogists’ Library [Event Ref. No. TG4V/SOG]

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This visit is an opportunity for research and information professionals to view Britain’s premier family history society. The Society of Genealogists (SoG) maintains a splendid genealogical library and education centre in Clerkenwell in London.

The Society’s collections are particularly valuable for research before the start of civil registration of births marriages and deaths in 1837.  The Society has many unique unpublished manuscript notes and printed and unpublished family histories. Its library contains Britain’s largest collection of parish register copies, nonconformist registers, local histories, copies of churchyard gravestone inscriptions, poll books, trade directories, census indexes and a wealth of information about the parishes where our ancestors lived.

Address:

14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA

Meeting instructions:

Come to Reception where you will be ask to store coats and bags into free lockers.  The tour will start from the Common Room.

This visit is free of charge, however there is a small charge for those wishing to use the SoG library resources after the visit. We have agreed a discounted rate of £4 for 2 hours, or £8 for 4 hours. If you wish to access the library after the visit, please indicate this in your booking, and provide a PO number (if applicable) to the cpd25 administrator.

Please note that there are limited places available for this visit.

To reserve a space please use our online booking form or email the administrator via cpd25@london.ac.uk

If, subsequent to booking a place on a cpd25 visit, you find that you are unable to attend, we ask that you let us know this as soon as possible. We invariably have a long waiting list of people for each visit and this means that we can then offer your place to one of them.