Coffee Morning in the BMI Catch up with old friends you haven't seen in more than 18 months and find out what we are aiming to do now we are coming out of the pandemic.   Let Jackie know if you intend to drop in so that we can make sure there are enough chairs […]

65 Brunswick Road – The Musical Midlands author Shirley Thompson, who has published everything from biographies to fiction, poetry and children’s books, invites you to a musical adaptation of her 12th book, 65 Brunswick Road. This extensively researched, personal family saga relates the stories of five families from the 18th Century to the present day. […]

Sadly Cancelled due to Covid   The History of The Friends’ Ambulance Unit Motor Ambulance Convoy during WW1  A Presentation by Paul Handford MBE The talk looks at the experiences of those individuals who, for conscience and other reasons, chose to serve in the non-combatant Friends’ Ambulance Unit (Quakers) during World War I.  Paul will […]

On the Trail of The Pilgrim Fathers - CANCELLED Speaker: J Keith Cheetham The Pilgrim Fathers stand out in history as the best remembered of all American colonists and over one million North Americans count them as their ancestors. The Pilgrims were the first group to found their own colony and run it on a […]

The Role of Women in Medieval Heraldry - The Peplow Memorial Lecture Speaker: Dr. Paul A. Fox Early heraldry at a superficial level appears to have been a very masculine affair, but women played a much more important role than has been generally recognised.  Moreover, the frequency with which maternal arms (or elements thereof) were inherited […]

New Date Due to Industrial Action on the railways In Memoriam - Records Of Commemoration Presenter Doreen Hopwood As family historians, we follow our ancestors from the cradle to the grave and this presentation explores the many ways in which the memory of our ancestors has been kept alive.  It explains how to locate their […]

Note Change of Date due to Rail Strike Catching Up With FamilySearch Presenter Sharon Hintze FamilySearch.org is the largest family history website in the world, with billions of names across thousands of collections - and more added monthly. In this talk, Sharon Hintze will tell us about the recently completed digitising of its microfilm collection. […]

Genealogy Modelling Kinship - Are We Related ? The Kingsley Norris Memorial Lecture Presenter - Dr Alan C Smith, FInstP FIET FRAS Genealogy is the study of our family – but how large is it and are we related? Our speaker today will describe Pedigree - and Cousin - Collapse and how these can be […]

The History (Research) of The Friends' Ambulance Unit The Motor Ambulance Convoys and its Members during WW1. Presenter - Paul Handford MBE The talk looks at the experiences of those individuals who, for conscience and other reasons, chose to serve in the non-combatant Friends’ Ambulance Unit (Quakers) during 1st World War. Todays speaker will explore […]

Note Change of Date due to Rail Strike The Staffordshire Enclosure Award Maps Project Presenter - Richard Totty Richard is Chairman Friends of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archives (FoSSA) which successfully applied for a grant from the Midland Ancestors’ Kemp Legacy Fund. Their proposal was to prepare digital images of Staffordshire Enclosure (or Inclosure) […]

Midland Ancestors – The First 60 Years Presenter - Mike Sharpe For our diamond anniversary lecture, Trustee and Professional Genealogist, Mike Sharpe looks back on the Society’s first sixty years. He tracks the Society’s growth from its formation on a wintery night in 1963, through the boom years of the 1970s and ‘80s; to the […]

Due To Unforeseen Circumstances a Change of Date and Speaker The Birmingham Middlemore Emigration Homes between 1873 and 1954 Stories of the Lost Children. A Presentation by Val Hart. Vals presentation is about the work of the Middlemore Homes in Birmingham who emigrated over 5000 children to Canada and Australia between 1873 and 1954. In the […]