Benefits
You may have been redirected here after using the public database search facilty.
There are many great reasons for joining our Society, including opportunities to meet new people who can help you with your research.
You may well have been re-directed here as a result of carrying out a search of our online database, which is an exclusive members benefit, giving you access to our >1.6 million record database.
Other benefits include:
- Monthly hybrid (in room & online) meetings with superb guest speakers
- Our excellent quarterly Society journal ‘The Doncaster Ancestor’, and access to all our back copies online, dating back to 1980, full of useful articles and social history in Doncaster
- Help with your research
- Have the names you are researching published in the journal and kept on the member’s surnames of interest database, to share with those also searching your family lines
- Access to our members only area, which includes:
- Video library
- Access to our 1.6 million + names database containing local parish and other records NEW SEPTEMBER 2023
- Join our self help advice group on Zoom, to discuss all things family history in a relaxed friendly group including computer skills as well
- Access to other events we are planning for the members

Apply to join DDFHS
Choose to either apply online or to print off a pdf version to complete and post to the Membership Secretary (address in the form).
On joining the Society, you will receive a welcome pack, containing various leaflets including Forthcoming Events, Publications List and a Members’ Surname Interest form, useful for making contact with other members researching the same surnames.