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  • Birmingham: The Quarter Sessions: A resource for family historians

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    The Quarter Sessions: A resource for family historians. Genealogist, author and publisher Mike Sharpe will tell us about what is perhaps an oft overlooked resource for family historians, The Quarter Sessions.   Do please note that this meeting is not on the usual Wednesday evening but a Saturday afternoon

  • Heraldry Group

    Birmingham Meetings

    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: ‘May We Remind You’

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    ‘May We Remind You’ – Members Evening The late Joyce Finnemore when "doing" the family history talks circuit would frequently deliver a presentation entitled "May I Remind You" intended to draw the researchers mind back to perhaps long forgotten family history resources. Tonight we follow that same theme with a Members Evening.   Members Evening does […]

  • Birmingham: The Riches of the Earth – Kingsley Norris Lecture

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    The Riches of the Earth Mary Bodfish will explain all 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 […]

  • Heraldry Group

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    Heraldry - All good things come in threes …… Heraldry can appeal in three different ways: The Science (or the system), the History and Romance, The Art of Heraldry Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication “How to Do Heraldry”.   Come along and join us to learn about and discuss Heraldry.

  • Birmingham: DNA Painter

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    DNA Painter Jonny Perl will introduce the concept of chromosome mapping and demonstrate various features with his DNA Painter website that can help you make the most of your autosomal DNA results for your family history research.  Examples of how to use the site’s probability-based tools for relationship prediction will be presented alongside an overview […]

  • Heraldry Group

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    Heraldry - All good things come in threes …… Heraldry can appeal in three different ways: The Science (or the system), the History & Romance and The Art of Heraldry Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication “How to Do Heraldry”.   Come along and join us to learn about and discuss Heraldry.

  • Birmingham: On the Trail of The Pilgrim Fathers

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    On the Trail of The Pilgrim Fathers 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 system of […]

  • Heraldry Group

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    Heraldry - All good things come in threes …… Heraldry can appeal in three different ways: The Science (or the system), the History & Romance and The Art of Heraldry Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication “How to Do Heraldry”.   Come along and join us to learn about and discuss Heraldry.

  • Birmingham: Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane – CANCELLED

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemeteries Speakers: Volunteers of the Friends The Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemeteries  who formed in 2004, are a group of volunteers working to preserve, research, inform and promote these important historic and interesting cemeteries in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, Hockley. We will learn how the friends […]

  • Heraldry Group – CANCELLED

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    Heraldry - All good things come in threes …… Heraldry can appeal in three different ways: The Science (or the system), the History & Romance and The Art of Heraldry Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication “How to Do Heraldry”.   Come along and join us to learn about and discuss Heraldry.

  • Birmingham: Friends of Birmingham Archives & Heritage preceded by society AGM – CANCELLED

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
    Birmingham Meetings

    Friends of Birmingham Archives & Heritage Established in June 2009, FoBAH aims to promote and support the work of Birmingham Archives and Heritage in making their historical collections available to as wide an audience as possible. Their committee has a range of expertise, including: archivists, researchers, academics and archive users. This presentation by the Friends […]