MEET THE CENTRE 

After almost 25 years based at what is now the Havant Academy, we have moved to the under ground floor of St Francis church above. This gives us the chance to meet in the daytime as well as evenings as the need arises. So who and what are we? Well, during our life we have done our best to keep growing with technology and so have a very wide range of research material.

It is often thought by the description of the word 'Meeting' implies that we are the same as any other Family History Society, but that is a long way from the truth in many ways. We have strong records for the Havant and Portsmouth areas together with Hampshire and Sussex and the Isle of Wight,but we go wider afield than that and cover a lot of the United Kingdom and even the rest of the world.

We are, in fact, a Record Office with microfiche readers and online computers. We have an incredible number of microfiche and CDs including the IGI for the whole world. We welcome visitors at any stage of their researches and we can also give one-to-one instruction and help if needed. There is a lot more we could say, but why not pop in and see us and find out for yourself

At the moment we are open on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday evenings of every month from 7.30pm and, of course, 24 hours for Emails. Parking is free and there are always refreshments available.

We have the minimum of rules, all members voting on occasions when decisions have to be taken. The day-to-day running of the Centre is undertaken by four elected members and these are:

                                Our Chairman is Phil Hammond

                                Our Vice-Chairman is Brian Dorey,

                                Treasurer is Ernie Oliver and

                                Publicity Officer/Librarian is Sue Renault

                                Our Internet Network Manager is Ben Fletcher