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  • London: A DNA workshop hosted by Hilary (Cancelled)

    Birmingham & Midland Institute - Kingsley Norris Room 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Hilary will lead a workshop on DNA. Bring your laptop. Coffee/tea and biscuits beforehand  

  • Online Event – Pinpointing the Origin of a Surname

    Online Event Using Zoom

    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 – […]

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

    Online Event Using Zoom

    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

    Online Event Using Zoom

    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 […]

  • Kenilworth: Members’ Evening

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

    Family History Workshop or Members' Evening.  Topic to be confirmed.

  • Online Event – The Work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

    Online Event Using Zoom

    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

    Online Event Using Zoom

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