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Interested in Family History? Discover your Ancestors from Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire.
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A FREE five week course for beginners and those who have done a little research but do not know what to do next. Designed to give you the knowledge and confidence to find and interpret the records to build your family history. Held at Codsall Library. Places are limited and must be booked through the […]
However you choose to store your family history items there are issues of best practice to be addressed. There has been a revolution in moving from hard copy to digital recording. The storage of digital records brings its own challenges if they are to be preserved in such a way as to provide long-term protection. […]
Anne Clarks experiences on BBC’s Flog It. Stories of Anne's great-grandmother and her siblings from Hull in the Victorian era to 1960 and a quick guide to interesting places in Hull (City of Culture 2017). Also included are Anne's experiences on the BBC programme "Flog It" when she took along an item belonging to one of […]
How to trace your ancestors before 1837. Details and contacts
This talk has been timed to (almost) coincide with the ending of the 1914-18 war. One man remembered among many. Speaker: Phil Lamb
Outing to The National Archives The National Archives is the final resting place of all files and documents produced by the various departments of H.M. Government and its predecessors. Your Ancestors could well be in there somewhere, if you haven’t found him or her then perhaps you are not using the search engine to best […]
From being Staffordshire husbandmen, the Gilbert family worked its way up to producing two brothers, nephews of an ancestress, who were Thomas Gilbert (1720-98) and John Gilbert (1724-95), prominent entrepreneurs of the early Industrial Revolution. As well as with important parliamentary reform, they were involved with pioneering mining and canal engineering on a large and […]