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  • Online Event – Jacqui Kirk: Roots Investigator

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    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

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    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

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    Researching 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 […]

  • Online Event – Pinpointing the Origin of a Surname

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    Pinpointing 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

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    Organised by MA Bromsgrove Group. Online via Zoom. Speaker: Paul Hudson Register here

  • Online Event – Kenilworth: ‘The Baby in the Locket’

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    A 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

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    My 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

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    The 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

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    Organised by MA Bromsgrove Group. Online via Zoom. Speaker: Philip Bowen Note date changed from 09 March as originally advertised. Register here

  • The Craythorne Family

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    Organised by MA Bromsgrove Group. Online via Zoom. Speaker: Jan Pick Register here.