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  • Family History Centre

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    The FH Centre in Birmingham is Closed for the Festive Break

  • Family History Centre

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    The FH Centre in Birmingham is Closed for the Festive Break

  • Kenilworth: ‘Fred Hancox: More insights into the family life of an Edwardian working class, Coventry photographer’

    Online Event Using Zoom

    Following the decision to allow Zoom meetings to go ahead if Groups wish to, the Kenilworth meeting for January, which had been likely to be cancelled, will now be a Zoom meeting inviting David Fry back to show us more of Fred Hancox's Edwardian photographs. This is an online event via Zoom. Registration is now […]

  • Birmingham: Catching Up With FamilySearch

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Note Change of Date due to Rail Strike Catching Up With FamilySearch Presenter Sharon Hintze FamilySearch.org is the largest family history website in the world, with billions of names across thousands of collections - and more added monthly. In this talk, Sharon Hintze will tell us about the recently completed digitising of its microfilm collection. […]

    Free

  • Wolverhampton: Where Does My Family Come From? Unlocking the Secrets of your DNA.

    Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

    Presenter:  Karen Evans Adverts for DNA testing kits are constantly on the TV especially around Christmas – were you given one as a gift this year?  What is it going to reveal and how can you get the most out of the test results? This talk covers understanding how the test works in very general […]

  • Stourbridge: War Time Boat Women

    Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    War Time Boat Women Official war time photographs of the mother and daughter crew of the narrow boat "Heather Belle" delivering flour from Worcester to Tipton in 1942   Presenter - Keith Hodgkins   Keiths presentation will be preceded by – Annual General Meeting Do not be put off by the AGM also being at […]

    Free

  • Birmingham: Genealogy Modelling Kinship – Are We Related ?

    Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

    Genealogy Modelling Kinship - Are We Related ? The Kingsley Norris Memorial Lecture Presenter - Dr Alan C Smith, FInstP FIET FRAS Genealogy is the study of our family – but how large is it and are we related? Our speaker today will describe Pedigree - and Cousin - Collapse and how these can be […]

    Free

  • On Line – Family History Workshop

    Online Event Using Zoom

    Family History Workshop by Members The first of a series of On Line Members Meetings 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 […]

    Free

  • Wolverhampton: Member’s Research Evening

    Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

    'Two heads (or many) are better than one' so can we help each other with our problem ancestors? Wifi will be available and access to various records that you may not be able to view from home or even be aware of.   Come prepared with what you know and with what you are struggling with.  […]