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Peter Clark

Birmingham Heritage Forum

Mon 26th January 2026 By Peter Clark

The Birmingham Heritage Forum have produced a new flippable leaflet highlighting a selection of their members who are keen to share their enthusiasm for Birmingham’s heritage and to encourage interest in it, especially among children and young people.

Many members of the group, including Midland Ancestors, are planning to take part in the Heritage Open Days in September 2026.

 

Click the link to see the new Heritage Forum Leaflet

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January 2026 Newsletter

Tue 6th January 2026 By Peter Clark

January 2026 Newsletter

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November 2025 Newsletter

Thu 23rd October 2025 By Peter Clark

This is the first newsletter from Midland Ancestors for a while. It is proposed to create a newsletter in the months that members don’t receive their Journal. Hopefully this will keep members up-to-date in November, January, February, April, May, July/August, and October. Click on the link below and Enjoy!

Nov 2025 Newsletter

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Collecting Oral Histories

Tue 7th October 2025 By Peter Clark

If you are an ex-employee of Chance Brothers
Sandwell Archives would like to hear from you.

Related News:
Henry Chance is giving a talk to the Stourbridge Group on
24th Jan. 2026 entitled “A Short History of the Chance Brothers”

 

Filed Under: News

New Volunteering Opportunity

Wed 24th September 2025 By Peter Clark

A new Programme Secretary is needed to set up the monthly meetings in Birmingham.
A member with good organisational and communications skills would help the Society to continue these events at the Birmingham & Midland Institute which have been running since the Society was formed. There is also the possibility that future meetings in the winter would take place on Zoom which would avoid the need to travel in the poorer weather.

If you would like to volunteer to take on this important role please contact Peter Middleton for further information or go to the Volunteering Opportunities page for more details.

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The MA Genealogy Panel

Mon 1st September 2025 By Peter Clark

The Midland Ancestors Genealogy Panel is a new initiative to help our members with their family history research.

We’re looking for experienced members to sign up to a list of in-house experts who can be called on to help with content-related tasks.

By signing up to the Panel you are simply adding your name to a list of people willing to help. You are not committing to any specific task or role – unless you wish to. Once up and running, requests and queries will be sent to individuals who match the relevant criteria or in some instances to the whole list.

If you are willing to help, then please complete our short questionnaire on your family history knowledge and skills.
Go to the third menu item in the Members Area.

Filed Under: Members News, News

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