What’s On at Midland Ancestors –

  • Birmingham: On the Trail of The Pilgrim Fathers

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

    On the Trail of The Pilgrim Fathers Speaker: J Keith Cheetham The Pilgrim Fathers stand out in history as the best remembered of all American colonists and over one million North Americans count them as their ancestors. The Pilgrims were the first group to found their own colony and run it on a system of […]

  • Executive Committee Meeting: Finance

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

    Executive Committee Meeting - Finance To which satellite group committee members are invited

  • Outing to The National Archives

    National Archives Bessant Drive, Richmond, London, United Kingdom

    Outing to The National Archives The National Archives is the final resting place of all files and documents produced by the various departments of H.M. Government and its predecessors. Your Ancestors could well be in there somewhere, if you haven’t found him or her then perhaps you are not using the search engine to best […]

  • Heraldry Group

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

    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.

  • Wolverhampton: Enclosure in the English Midlands

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

    Wolverhampton: Enclosure in the English Midlands A talk by Richard Churchley about the effect on people and landscape of opening up heathland, when historically all the fields were enclosed.      

  • Stourbridge: A Yeomanry Trooper with Lawrence of Arabia

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

    A Yeoman Trooper with Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Byard Jones Trooper Thorne, of the Warwickshire Yeomanry, was involved in the Gallipoli campaign in November/December 1915, when he set sail for Egypt. He became batman to Captain George Lloyd in January 1916 and spent the rest of the war in this position. Captain Lloyd was […]

  • Birmingham: Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane – CANCELLED

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

    Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemeteries Speakers: Volunteers of the Friends The Friends of Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemeteries  who formed in 2004, are a group of volunteers working to preserve, research, inform and promote these important historic and interesting cemeteries in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, Hockley. We will learn how the friends […]

  • London: Gypsy ancestors in the Midlands MEETING CANCELLED

    Society of Genealogists 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Rd, London, EC1M 7BA
    London Meetings

    This meeting has been cancelled. Please check nearer the date to see if July meeting is also cancelled.

  • North Staffs: Research Evening – CANCELLED

    North Staffs St. John's Centre, Newcastle Road, Stoke on Trent, Staffs, United Kingdom
    North Staffs Meetings

    Research Evening. When members can avail themselves of the Groups resources, in fiche, film and book form. You can also get guidance on doing internet research.

  • Kenilworth: MEETING CANCELLED

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

    DUE TO COVID-19, CONSIDERING THE DEMOGRAPHIC OF OUR GROUP AND FOLLOWING ADVICE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, THE KENILWORTH BRANCH COMMITTEE HAS DECIDED TO CANCEL THIS MEETING. WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO RE-BOOK THE SPEAKER IN 2021. The meeting was to have been: 'My Churchley Family' - From 1300 – 2019: A typical West Midlands Family […]