Ormskirk & District Family History Society.
A friendly, active & progressive family history society, based in Ormskirk, West Lancashire. We are a registered charity and been in existence for 43 years. The area we cover includes Ormskirk, Burscough, Lathom, Rufford, Hesketh with Becconsal, Tarleton, Westhead, Aughton, Lydiate, Halsall, Downholland, Haskayne, Melling, Bickerstaffe, Simonswood and Skelmersdale. The Society is run entirely by volunteers.
Currently with 150 members, we have two websites. The main being https://www.odfhs.website, with a second site specialising in boatfamilies, https://www.boatfamilies.website. We also have a YouTube channel - ODFHSSocialMedia, and a Facebook page - facebook.com/OrmskirkDistrictFamilySociety.
Our aim is to help and encourage people in researching their ancestors - not only who they were, but how they lived, what the area they lived in was like, what was their job etc. To this end we provide 3 magazines per year, monthly meetings, YouTube videos, Zoom chats, monthly e-newsletter, help desk at Ormskirk library, community events and much more.
Over the years we have collected, with community support a large amount of material about West Lancashire, which is housed in our library in Ormskirk and unavailable on commercial heritage websites.
Since the pandemic we have seen an increased membership from far and wide reflecting a growing interest in this subject area and an increased volume of material. We are all passionate about sharing this.
