What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
Birmingham Meetings
Birmingham: The Green Room Plaque
A bronze memorial plaque commemorating twelve actors who died serving in WWI was discovered in a Rugby sale-room. The stories of the lives and deaths of these actors will be […]
Birmingham Sydney Race’s Nottingham Nights
Sydney Race, from his early teens, kept an irregular journal, in which he wrote about his fascination with the amusements Nottingham had to offer - the annual Goose Fair, where […]
BIRMINGHAM MEETING SNOWED OFF
We are sorry to have to make the decision to cancel the meeting in Birmingham on Saturday 3rd March. There has been much publicity about avoiding unnecessary travel, and there […]
Birmingham: Webster and Horsfall, Birmingham’s oldest business – its history and the project to save its records for family historians
Our speaker joined Webster and Horsfall as a Production Manager in their fine wire department and ever since has taken a keen interest in the history of the Company which […]
Birmingham: AGM followed by “An Over-View of BMD Sites”
UKBMD was started as a simple web site to enable the main BMD sites to be found via one convenient starting point. It was quickly discovered that there were many […]
Birmingham: Second City Executions & the Coffin Works
This talk looks at some events where people met their end with the help of a hangman’s noose in Birmingham over a period of 200 years. This ties in (so […]
Birmingham: The Shickles of Bordesley and Albany, New York: Discovering a Family
The talk arose from research work following an email from the family in the USA, who wanted to visit a grave here. The speaker offered to do a tour for […]
Birmingham: Peplow Memorial Lecture – Heraldry
Title: “The Mint and I” Gregory Cameron is the Bishop of St Asaph in North Wales. However, he is a keen numismatist, armorist and amateur heraldic artist, and a design […]
Birmingham: Organising and preserving your family history archive
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 […]
Birmingham: The Riches of the Earth
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomFrom 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 […]
Birmingham: The Victorians and the Christmas Season
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomThis illustrated talk looks at the influence of the Victorians on Christmas as we know it today. The Victorians repackaged older traditions and customs that suited their new sensibilities, ideas […]