Speaker: Paul Wilkins Paul is the founder of The Family Tree Tracers,Dorector of Family History Detectives and delivers family history courses at WCRO as well as giving talks and teaching genealogy, and writing for WDYTYA? Magazine

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Via ZOOM Speaker - Helen Baggott

Speaker - Paul Wilkins Paul is the founder of The Family Tree Tracers, Director of Family History Detectives and delivers family history courses at WCRO as well as giving talks and teaching genealogy, and writing for WDYTYA? Magazine.

Speaker - Jean Renwick Jean Renwick’s talk reveals years of research behind her family saga, The Mourning Brooch, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. After inheriting a mourning brooch, Jean was intrigued to know who was Elizabeth Addy, commemorated in […]

Speaker - Stephen Dyer This talk looks at the long history of British child emgration schemes up to 1967 when some 150,000 children were sent overseas to settle and grow up in British colonies and dominions. Stephen is a National U3A Genealogy Subject Adviser and a member of the Society of Genealogists.

Speaker - Laurence Ince Laurence is from Solihull, a member of Solihull Local History Circle, and has been working for many years on family history, particularly of his wife’s family, the Holbeches of Alvechurch.

Speaker - Marie Fogg Looks at the feud that led to numerous court cases and attempted murder in the 17thcentury. Marie is the author of several books, about the Smalbroke family of Birmingham and Thornton School.

Speaker - Vanessa Morgan The story of Lavinia Ryves who tried to prove in the 1860’s, through documents in her possession, that she was the granddaughter of theDuke of Cumberland, brother of George lll, and therefore entitled to a title and an inheritance. Vanessa worked as a professional genealogist and local historian, and has written […]

Speaker - Anne Langley Anne is secretary of the Stretton on Dunsmore History Society, and author of Victorian Village Life, Brandon Silk Mill, Warwick County Asylum and Joseph Ashby’s Victorian Warwickshire.

Speaker - Graham Sutherland Local author and professional speaker, Graham is a retired Police Inspector, and has also been a Town crier, and is a Blue Badge tourist guide. See website: www.talksandwalks.co.uk for more details.