As a result of an appeal in the Lancashire Family History Society Magazine for someone to co-ordinate research locally into the Entwistle family, Barbara Nightingale (of Darwen, Lancashire) and Tim Entwistle (of Great Harwood, Lancashire) decided to look into the possibility of setting up an Entwistle Family Society.

They envisaged a society in which members could get together from time to time, to get to know each other and to exchange experiences and information etc.

A further aim would be to put people researching the Entwistles in the same part of the country, or indeed in other parts of the world, in touch with each other.

An Inaugural Meeting was held in Blackburn, Lancashire in September 1999 attended by 21 people from all parts of the UK. At this meeting it was decided that the society should become: The Entwistle Family History Association (EFHA)

By October 2002 (AGM) membership had reached 150 world-wide. Over the years since we've had many visitors from the USA, Canada and Australia as well as from all parts of the UK attending the AGM and doing research trips to discover their roots.

Why not join this growing happy clan, keep up-to-date on the latest research and information about your ancestry and enjoy the benefits listed below - The world-wide Entwistle (Entwisle) Family - see >>> membership

Benefits of Membership include:

• Keeping in touch with the Entwistle Family clan, world-wide.
• A quarterly newsletter "Twissle Times" containing interesting anecdotes and information about the family, its members and its history, requests for help and offers of help, unwanted certificates etc.
• A list of members interests showing in which countries, counties and towns other members are researching. Brief details of each member's ancestry and records held by them are also included. This latter has enabled several members to make links with others researching the same branch of the family.
• Gives members access to our extensive data base and growing central Entwistle Family record system using several volumes of printed material, data bases and CD based records.
• We can provide help and assistance with research particularly to those members who are not resident in the UK, but bearing in mind we are volunteers, not professional researchers.
• Opportunities to meet other Entwistle Family researchers and family members from all parts of the UK and World-wide. The EFHA now organises an informal social gathering every spring and an AGM every October.
• An on-line database resource containing Entwistle related comprehensive Census Records,
• An on-line archive of past issues of our newsletter - Twissle Times.
• An on-line downloadable .pdf copy of Bannister Grimshaw's book "The Entwisle Family" published in 1924. The book, which is 72 pages of extensive research into the local family history, with illustrations, has real historical significance going back to the Thirteenth Century and beyond. Original copies now change hands for upwards of £40.