What’s On at Midland Ancestors –
Online Event – Using DNA Testing to Trace Your Family Tree
Online Event Using ZoomUsing DNA Testing to Trace Your Family Tree Presenter - Karen Evans This presentation covers how DNA testing works in very general terms, getting the most from the test (what the results mean) and how to use your results to validate your paper research or overcome brick walls such as illegitimacy. It also highlights the […]
Online Event – Lest We Forget
Online Event Using ZoomLest We Forget with Sandra Taylor Worcestershire Memorials and their Casualties War memorials are a familiar sight on our landscape (there are around 100,000 in the UK), located on village greens, outside churches, in schools etc. They are part of our nation’s heritage, each and every one of them demonstrating the skills of stonemasons, woodworkers, […]
Kenilworth: CHANGE OF PROGRAMME ‘My Criminal Past’
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomOur scheduled speaker, John Berkeley OBE, would prefer to give his talk live, rather than via Zoom. We will therefore be postponing his talk, 'Looking for Answers... a family quest' to another date. Instead, we are very pleased to announce: My Criminal Past A talk by Paul Millington of the Malvern Family History Society. The […]
Online Event – Who’s The Daddy ?
Online Event Using ZoomWho's The Daddy ? Or some ideas for identifying the father of an illegitimate child. Presenter - Penny Smith. Most of us have come across an illegitimate child in our research and then wondered about who is the father. Routinely we are told that it is impossible to identify the father but occasionally you can. […]
Kenilworth: Members’ Evening and Summer Refreshments
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomSummer Social This evening will be accompanied by our usual summer refreshments of strawberries and cream with drinkies.
Online Event – Park Street Burial ground
Online Event Using ZoomPark Street Burial Ground - The HS2 Dig Did you know that one of the biggest archaeological digs in the UK has been taking place in Birmingham city centre ? Park Street burial ground was begun in 1810 as an overspill burial site from St Martins. The Bull Ring cemetery was filling up as the […]
Kenilworth: ‘Maundy Rodgers – A doctor abroad’
Online Event Using ZoomA talk by John Frearson Maundy Rodgers: A doctor abroad Wimeraux and Amara during WWI Maundy was an Assistant Surgeon 4th Class from India, and with his hospital served in France in the seaside town of Wimereux in WWI from 1914 and later went Mesopotamia. He was mentioned in Dispatches. The talk gives a family […]
Online Event – Spread the Net Wider and Dig Deeper
Online Event Using ZoomSpread the Net Wider and Dig Deeper. Speaker: Ann Simcock. When we first begin to research our families, often the aim is to try and get as far back as possible adding names and dates with a hope to find a link to someone famous. However, our ancestors were living breathing human beings with fascinating […]
Coffee Morning in the BMI
Birmingham & Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United KingdomCoffee Morning in the BMI Catch up with old friends you haven't seen in more than 18 months and find out what we are aiming to do now we are coming out of the pandemic. Let Jackie know if you intend to drop in so that we can make sure there are enough chairs […]
Kenilworth: ‘Heir Hunting’ – POSTPONED
Kenilworth Kenilworth Centre, Abbey End,, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, United KingdomTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED TO 13 APRIL 2022 Heir Hunting: A Family Historian turned Professional Probate Researcher tells us more A talk by Helen Ball BA MCLIP FPAR --- Following a discussion, the Kenilworth Branch has chosen to continue with online meetings until Spring 2022. The speaker for this event, Helen Ball, would like […]