What’s On at Midland Ancestors –

  • Kenilworth: ‘Freedom of Information for Genealogy’ (ONLINE)

    Online Event Using Zoom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Speaker: Richard Holt BA (Hons) This talk discusses the Freedom of Information Act and using FOI requests for family history research. Richard will go through how to make a request to a public authority, what to expect, what types of record might be held, and what to do if you think the public authority has […]

  • Kenilworth: ‘Bloody Kenilworth’ (LIVE)

    Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Speaker: Adam Wood, author, speaker and tour guide, true crime historian Join local true crime historian Adam Wood for an illustrated talk on the seedier side of Kenilworth, as he reveals misdeeds committed between 1790 and 1928. Learn how the former caretaker of the Kenilworth Baths on Abbey Fields, bristling with resentment over his dismissal, made […]

  • Kenilworth: Annual Business Meeting followed by ‘WWll Incident Reports for Warwickshire’ (LIVE)

    Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Speakers: Peter Coulls & John Willock John Willock and Peter Coulls have been working on the’Incident Reports’ held by WCRO for some time. The information within provides an insight into the development of WWII at a local level. The accuracy of the reports has proved interesting and expanded certain aspects of WWII knowledge and its […]

  • Kenilworth: Summer Social (LIVE)

    Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Further detail to be confirmed

  • Kenilworth: ‘Matters of Life & Death: Letters from the men at the front in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War’ (LIVE)

    Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Speaker: Brian Stote Brian's great great grandmother sent food parcels and gifts to men from the Yorkshire town of Otley who were stationed in South Africa during the Boer War conflict of 1899-1902. Some of them sent letters to her, which were collected into a scrapbook, relating their experiences during battles, troop movements and daily […]

  • Kenilworth: ‘From Lubenham to Sandy: Riches to Rags [well not quite!]’ (LIVE)

    Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Speaker: John Frearson The story of four generations of a Leicestershire Family. Great-grandfather Ashton raised cattle in Leicestershire for the London market. He had 14 children – and three brothers married three sisters. This is the story of the struggles of one branch of the family that moved to Bedfordshire in the judgemental late 19th […]

  • Kenilworth: Researching Irish Ancestry (LIVE)

    Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End, Kenilworth, CV8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    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

  • Kenilworth: Christmas Social (LIVE)

    Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
    Kenilworth Meetings

    Further details to be confirmed