What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
On Line Event
Bromsgrove: What’s in a Name – Talking Butts
Online Event Using ZoomOnline Event - Speaker: Anthony Paulton-Smith
Online Event – Jacqui Kirk: Roots Investigator
Jacqui Kirk is a Professional Genealogist, based in Warwickshire. If you’ve read any of the genealogy detective novels, such as the Morton Farrier ones by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, you may be wondering what does this occupation really entail, and is it really as dangerous for the genealogist as the novels suggest? The Kenilworth Group posed […]
Online Event – Tompson or Thompson
Tompson or Thompson The story of how family history research went wrong, or did it ? Perhaps I was wrong initially and the documents I was looking at later were right. Dave Kerr will tell us about his researches in the Dudley and Sedgley areas and why you should explore all variations of a family […]
Online Event – Criminal Records
Online Event Using ZoomResearching Criminal Records with Penny Smith We are frequently shocked when finding out how severely our criminal ancestors were punished for what now seem the slightest of offences. In 1868 in Wolverhampton, a sentence of 3 months hard labour was given to a 16 year old lad for the theft of a cap. Penny will […]
The Accident Waiting to Happen – The Whittall St. Explosion of 1859
Online Event Using ZoomOrganised by MA Bromsgrove Group. Online via Zoom. Speaker: Liz Palmer Register here
Online Event – Pinpointing the Origin of a Surname
Online Event Using ZoomPinpointing the Origin of a Surname with John Titterton This presentation looks at surname origins and distribution, explaining how a surname origin can be pinpointed statistically. Doing a one name study, John has traced his surname to a point in North Staffordshire around 1400. An Online event using Zoom. Register by using this link – […]
Stories from the Worcestershire Archives
Online Event Using ZoomOrganised by MA Bromsgrove Group. Online via Zoom. Speaker: Paul Hudson Register here
Online Event – Kenilworth: ‘The Baby in the Locket’
Online Event Using ZoomA talk by Mary Bodfish The Baby in the Locket My great-grandmother’s locket contains a tiny faded photograph of a baby, and solving the mystery of its identity was one of the links in a 250 year chain of family history through Wolverhampton, Derby and Yorkshire. Originally booked as a face-to-face meeting, Mary has kindly […]
Online Event – My Ancestors Were Boring – They were only Ag Labs
Online Event Using ZoomMy Ancestors Were Boring - They were only Ag Labs Presenter Jacqui Kirk Inspired by an off the cuff comment, Jacqui aims in the talk to show that agricultural labourers and their lives were not boring. From ladies of questionable virtue to agricultural show prize-winners, the traces of our forebears are everywhere if you only […]
Online Event – The Work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Online Event Using ZoomThe Work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Speaker - Sarah Moody Initially the Graves Registration Commission formed in 1915 by Fabian Ware, with a Royal Charter in 1917, the remit of the CWGC is the care and maintenance of the graves and memorials to Commonwealth war dead at more than 23,000 sites worldwide. Sarah […]
The History of Bromsgrove School
Online Event Using ZoomOrganised by MA Bromsgrove Group. Online via Zoom. Speaker: Philip Bowen Note date changed from 09 March as originally advertised. Register here
On Line – Family History Workshop
Online Event Using ZoomFamily History Workshop by Members An On Line Members Meeting where you can hear about other members research experiences. You can learn how they knocked down their brick walls, what new websites they found, how they got to grips with better known sites, any obscure or lesser known websites, archives offices or libraries, or tackled […]