The Forum is funded by the Society for the benefit of it's members. Our Forum, unlike others, is run without annoying advertisements on the pages.
We believe that the Forum is a benefit of Society Membership which, together with the other benefits provides good value for money and we would encourage you to join and display your Membership Number in your profile.
If you decide to join/rejoin the Society, please be aware that your login to the Members Area of the website is separate from the login to the forum which you create yourself.
I would advise that it is not allowed to solicit assistance from our Forum and Society Members for monetary gain ie if you are undertaking research for others with the likelihood of payment, then do your own work. If it is found that you have charged a client for results that have had assistance from our forum, then you will be barred from the Forum and your Society Membership referred to the Committee for a decision.
Our crew help as much as they can, often searching resources that you may not have access to, or even visiting somewhere on your behalf, such as the Record Office, a Cemetery or Church.
A "thank you" is deemed only polite, but more importantly is a return visit to the forum to check for responses to your request.
No abusive, insulting, discriminatory, racist, inflammatory, or inappropriate language may be used in Posts or in Comments. No grievances or contentions may be aired publicly on the Group which may upset or offend others.
The Username and Password used on this Forum is the one that you created for yourself, and is not the one that is used for the Member's Only section of the site.
That Username and Password is sent to you by the Membership Secretary when you join/rejoin for the year, If you have any problems with that one, please email membership@lswlfhs.org.uk, as all membership details are held there, and not with the rest of the Committee.
Images of limited size are allowed to be uploaded, below your message there is a link to "Choose File" and "Upload". If your image is too large it will be resized smaller and it may not be suitable for censuses etc.
The easiest way to share a larger image is still using https://imgur.com/ so having uploaded an image there, just RIGHT click on it and choose "Copy Image Address".
Then come back here to your post and use Ctrl V which will paste your link.
For those who want to view the image the easiest way is to hold mouse over the link and press your wheelie mouse which will open it up in a new tab and keep the message in the original one for you to go back to, alternatively RIGHT click and "Open in new tab"
To continue with a post, or refer back to it you would need to copy the url (address bar) to your new post.
At your old post in the old forum, click on the address bar, (shown highlighted in the image below) then hold down Ctrl key and hit the C key, this will copy the address for you.
Then come to your new post here, fill in your heading, then in the text box hold down the Ctrl key and hit the V key. This will paste your link.
