East Surrey FHS Virtual Family History Fair

East Surrey FHS is proud to announce that it will again be hosting The Fabulous Virtual Family History Fair, using Zoom, on Saturday January 27 2024. Find further information and the links to register on our website at https://www.eastsurreyfhs.org.uk/

If you’ve not visited us before, we host 2 sessions on Zoom, morning and afternoon. We invite lots of other family history societies to join us and put each society into its own breakout room. This is a method of holding lots of little simultaneous meetings using Zoom.  We set up the meeting so you can take yourself around the different societies, just as if you were at a real fair. We even have a virtual pub where you can meet like-minded people to put the family history world to rights as well as a temperance café and the workhouse if you want to park yourself somewhere quiet to consider your next move. We have a designated room for the hard of hearing where we bring helpers to you so you don’t have to keep explaining your needs and you are in a one-to-one situation with no noisy background.

And for the first time we will be joined by staff from the Surrey History Centre.

We run training sessions beforehand so you can practise moving yourself around and we also teach you to screen share so you can produce your own documents for advice or maybe look at a map – in fact we try to do anything that can help you to get the best experience from your visit to our fair.

At our last fair we had societies from Scotland, east Anglia, the south west, home counties, the north west and others. Our most successful customer visited 6 different societies in one session and obtained answers to all her questions. Why not try to beat her record?