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Somerset & Dorset
Family History Society
Family History Society
The Society’s Bookshop is based at the Family History Centre in Yeovil and has a very wide range of stock covering family/local history in Somerset and Dorset and also other publications, CDs and fiches related to family history studies more generally.
All the prices in these lists include postage. Overseas prices are for surface mail only. For airmail prices, please enquire.
The bookshop is open to personal callers whenever the Family History Centre is open and all stock can also be ordered by post: SDFHS Bookshop, Broadway House, Peter St., Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1PN.
Most of the books/CDs that we sell can also be ordered securely from our online shop – please do check it out as we have more than 270 publications on family and local history for sale. If you would like to buy a publication included in one of our lists but cannot find it in the online shop, please contact our Family History Centre.
A bargain! We have reduced the over the counter price to £5.00 (it was originally £12.00).
The book is a compilation of all the names of those who lost their lives in both World Wars and recorded on war memorials in Dorset, as well as a few names of those who died in earlier conflicts.
The book is accompanied by a CD also containing all the names of those who lost their lives, but also including photographs of all the memorials, organised village by village. The book acts as an index to the names.
The CD includes additional memorials, discovered after the book was published, and the names listed on them. The CD includes a separate index of these additional names.
If you aren’t able to come to the Bookshop at our Family History Centre, you can order the book from our online shop where the prices include postage (UK or Overseas) or from: Book Sales, Broadway House, Peter St., Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1PN.
CD or memory stick with the set of The Greenwood Tree as fully-searchable PDFs from 1975-2015.
If you purchased the CD during September/October 2015 (when the last edition included was August 2015) you can now download the November 2015 edition to complete the set.
(CD): over the counter £9.00; posted £9.85 (UK), £11.70 (OS)
(Memory stick): over the counter £11.00; posted £12.30 (UK), £13.70 (OS)
Version 3 of this comprehensive set of records for Portland has now been released. The CD is a most valuable resource for anyone with Portland ancestors.
The main additions for this new release are:
Over-the-counter price £15.00. UK including postage: £16.10. Overseas including postage: £17.75.
Please note that the CD version does not run correctly on Apple Mac computers using operating systems above 10.4 (Tiger). However, copying the files from the CD to your computer hard drive, and running from there, does enable everything to run correctly.
You can buy the CD securely online in our shop, or in person or by post from: SDFHS Bookshop, Broadway House, Peter St., Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1PN. Enquiries: 01935 389611 or email.
This book looks at the lives of 86 servicemen who were born in, or who lived in, the village before or during the Great War. It builds on the names recorded on the Rolls of Honour in the two churches, which included those who served in the forces and returned, as well as those who were killed in the fighting. In addition to the standard research sources for the period, the author has been able to contact the relatives of 56 of the 86 men, and then use family recollections and photographs kindly supplied by those relatives.
Phil Nichols has lived in West and Middle Chinnock since 1960, and he, his wife and their two daughters all attended the village primary school. Phil retired from his post as the senior professional librarian with Somerset’s Library Service in 2012. Since then, he has carried out project work for Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society, prior to researching the contribution of the village in the Great War.
90 pages. Soft covers. Over-the-counter price £10.00. UK including postage:£13.35. Overseas including postage: £15.60.
The author, Phil Nichols, has written a post for our blog about his research while preparing the book, and the new contacts he has made since its publication.