What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
North Staffs Branch – Research / Help evening
St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United KingdomResearch/help evening
Kenilworth: ‘From Lubenham to Sandy: Riches to Rags [well not quite!]’ (LIVE)
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSpeaker: 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 […]
Stourbridge Group – ‘The Real ‘Allo ‘Allo’
Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United Kingdom'The Real 'Allo 'Allo' A talk by John Pittwood The Talk - The Real 'Allo 'Allo' This is a fascinating talk about the father of John, also called John. John had volunteered for the RAF and had became a Lancaster bomber navigator with 207 Squadron. On the 3rd/4th May 1944, John and the rest of […]
Wolverhampton: Clive of India
Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United KingdomRobert Clive was born near Market Drayton in 1725 and has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company (EIC). Clive's actions on behalf of the EIC have made him one of Britain's most controversial colonial figures. His achievements included checking French imperialist ambitions on the Coromandel Coast and establishing […]
Birmingham: The Mourning Brooch
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomThe Mourning Brooch Speaker: Jean Renwick Jean Renwick’s talk reveals years of research behind her family saga, The Mourning Brooch, based upon the lives of real Yorkshire people who lived in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. After inheriting a mourning brooch, Jean was intrigued to know who […]
North Staffs Branch – Talk
St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United KingdomTalk "Etruria Bone Mill" Speaker Bernard Lovatt
Kenilworth: Researching Irish Ancestry (LIVE)
Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End, Kenilworth, Cv8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth, United KingdomSpeaker: 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
Stourbridge Group – Social Evening with refreshments
Stourbridge St. Peter's Church Hall, Pedmore, West Midlands, United KingdomSocial Evening with refreshments This the final event of the year for Midland Ancestors members only.
Wolverhampton: 12 Days of Christmas again!
Wolverhampton The Terry Harding Room, Perton Civic Centre, Church Road, Perton,, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, United KingdomThis is the last meeting of 2024 for the Wolverhampton group so will have a Christmas theme with seasonal nibbles (bring your own soft drink - it will not be checked!) At the moment the current plan is that Penny will provide a presentation of websites that you may wish to explore over the festive […]
North Staffs Branch – Social / help evening
St. John’s Centre St. John’s Centre, 122 Newcastle Rd. Trent Vale, Stoke on Trent, United KingdomSocial / help evening with mincepies and tea or coffee
Birmingham: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Mightiest Glassmakers
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomThe Rise and Fall of the World's Mightiest Glassmakers Speaker: Henry Chance Chance Brothers & Co Ltd was at one time the greatest glassmaker in the world, and one of Smethwick's foremost employers, providing the glass for the Crystal Palace, the Palace of Westminster and more than half the lighthouse lenses worldwide. It was particularly […]
Kenilworth: Christmas Social (LIVE)
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomFurther details to be confirmed