Volunteers

Volunteers are the lifeblood of any organisation such as ours. Most of the many publications and indexes available to the members of the Isle of Wight Family History Society have been produced by volunteers. All of the committee give their time freely and valuably. We also have on-going projects and others that we would like to set up.
Being involved with your Society brings its own rewards on involvement and friendship.

There is a group of members presently checking for errors in the indexing that has been completed on our BMD Index. We would like more helpers to join us in this work. This involves checking and entering information in computer databases. You do not need your own computer for checking transcriptions. The work is done in pairs at the Register Office, Northwood House, Cowes in 2-hour sessions in pairs. For information about this contact Dina Broughton

We are on the threshold of starting another project with the cemeteries of the Island. If you are interested to hear more about this project and what it involves contact Jon Matthews

If poring over records and documents is not your forte perhaps you would like to volunteer to help at meetings. We like to have a written report of all meetings in our quarterly journal. They do not write themselves and help is needed to record, either in note form or on a recorder each monthly talk and the three talks given at the One Day Conference in May in order to write them up for the journal. This is essential for all our members who live on the mainland or abroad to be able to keep up with our activities. For further information about this please apply to Janet Griffin

Sometimes we need members to man stalls at an event run by another organization such as a Society's Fair or the Age Festival recently.

Perhaps you have specific skills and could help with writing articles for the journal.

Lastly, if you live on the Island and are familiar with the records held here research is always needed by members who cannot easily visit the Island. We badly need some researchers to help in this.

If you can help in any way please contact Janet Griffin, Jon Matthews or Dina Broughton.