In the Beginning
The seeds were sown for our Society early in 1987 when a group of people from the Royston area in Hertfordshire attended a course on “Tracing Your Ancestors” at a local college. When the course was completed, they decided to meet, informally, in each other’s homes to talk about their efforts in tracing their own ancestors and to help other to find theirs.
In 1987 the Society was formed with about 12 members and known as “The Royston Family History Group”. By 1992 there were 50 members and we felt it would be in our interest to join the Federation of Family History Societies. In order to reflect the Royston’s position on the borders of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex, we changed our name to the “Royston and District Family History Society”.