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  • Stourbridge: The Bostin Tay Party- CANCELLED

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

    The Bostin Tay Party A Summer Social Evening with tea/coffee and a glass of wine provided. Please bring along a plate of food to share. Marlene Watson, our Black Country Wench will entertain us again with her Black Country humour.

  • Online Event – Maps & Mapping

    Online Event Using Zoom

    Maps & Mapping, Exploring for Family Historians Phil Lamb will show us how to get to some free maps and how they can help with tracing the lives and movements of our ancestors.   Register no earlier than 10 days prior by sending an email to eventsonline@midanc.uk and put into the title box Maps & […]

  • Executive Committee Meeting

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

    Executive Committee Meeting To which satellite group committee members are invited

  • Heraldry Group- CANCELLED

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

    Heraldry - All good things come in threes …… Heraldry can appeal in three different ways: The Science (or the system), the History & Romance and The Art of Heraldry Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication “How to Do Heraldry”.   Come along and join us to learn about and discuss Heraldry.

  • Online Event – The Parish Chest & Poor Law

    Online Event Using Zoom

    The Parish Chest & Poor Law with Jackie Cotterill Parish Chests date from medieval times, required by law as a place for keeping important parochial documents secure. Over the years there were collected vast quantities of paper & vellum documents relating to the governance of the parish. Registers, Accounts, Charity Records, tithes, churchwardens, settlements and […]

  • Birmingham: HS2 and the Park Street Dig – CANCELLED

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

    See re-scheduled event 21 July 2021, click here Park Street HS2 Archaeology works: Park Street Former Burial Ground Did you know that one of the biggest archaeological digs in the UK has been taking place right here in Birmingham? As part of the preparations for HS2’s phase one, an archaeological team has been excavating the […]

  • Kenilworth: Members’ Evening and Summer Refreshments – CANCELLED

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

    Family History Workshop or Members' Evening.  Topic to be confirmed. Summer Social This evening will be accompanied by our usual summer refreshments of strawberries and cream with drinkies.

  • Online Event -The Census

    Online Event Using Zoom

    The Census with Mark Thursfield The earliest census in Britain of any real use to family historians was held in 1841. Mark will explain this and others and how we can use the census to help us learn about our ancestors. Mark is a society member and regular presenter at the Midland Ancestors series of […]

  • Stourbridge: Group Visit – Church of St. Mary, Kingswinford – CANCELLED

    St. Marys Church Kingswinford, United Kingdom

    Summer Evening Visit to St. Mary’s Church, Kingswinford Margaret Penn will be our host The Parish Church of Kingswinford, St. Mary’s overlooks the village green where the pound can still be seen and ‘The Old Court House’ where years ago most of the parish business was transacted. This church used to serve a vast parish […]

  • National Archives Introductory Session – CANCELLED

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

    National Archives Familiarisation Intended for those who have possibly wanted to visit the National Archives, found their website a little daunting and then left it at that. Also for those who have visited perhaps just once and felt they have not had the best out of it. This is a group participation live computer assessment […]