What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
Birmingham Meetings
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 celebrates its 300th Anniversary in 2020. He retired in 2005 and now devotes his time to the development of the Webster and Horsfall Archives, Family […]
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 other sites offering BMD listings that were not readily accessible. UKBMD grew in the number of links it had. We will learn about the latest […]
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 to speak) with a few of the Birmingham Conservation Trust higher profile projects, including the Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries, against a background of some well-known people who made […]
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 them, and after more than six months of research and emails, it all went ahead delightfully. The men who emigrated would certainly have encountered the […]
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 of his was selected by the Royal Mint for the “last round pound”. Gregory will speak about the role of heraldry in coinage, and explore […]
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 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. […]
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 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 […]
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 and concerns. It is said the Victorians:‘mixed the ingredients of the English Christmas to create an extremely rich plum pudding’. Many of these changes took […]
Birmingham: From Chisel to Cloud – The Kingsley Norris Lecture
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomFrom Chisel to Cloud, The Past and Future of Family History. A thought-provoking journey through thousands of years of development of family history record keeping and record preservation. Not all technology over the millennia has changed and, surprisingly, the future is not entirely digital. You’ll see your own family history research and documentation in a new […]
Heraldry Group
Heraldry Heraldry can be admired, or enjoyed, (or even disliked) at a distance, but it can be much more fun with a measure of participation. Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication "How to Do Heraldry".
Birmingham: Birchfield Harriers
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomBirchfield Harriers - The first 50 years 1877 - 1927 Since 1877 Birchfield Harriers, the club "of the people, for the people" has been the home of thousands of aspiring athletes, with almost 100 Harriers having represented their countries at the Olympic Games. A presentation by Ruth Lockley and Stuart Paul. Stuart and Ruth are part […]
Heraldry Group
Heraldry Heraldry can be admired, or enjoyed, (or even disliked) at a distance, but it can be much more fun with a measure of participation. Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication "How to Do Heraldry".