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  • Bromsgrove: Family Tree tapping

    Bromsgrove Methodist Centre 19 Stratford Road, Bromsgrove, Worcs, United Kingdom

    Family Tree tapping A talk by Frank Townsend

  • Kenilworth: Rogues and Villains

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

    Rogues and Villains A talk by local historian and thespian Vanessa Morgan

  • Course – Who Were Your Ancestors?

    Wolverhampton Archives Molineux House, Whitmore Hill, Wolverhampton

    Family history course for beginners. Find out how to get started in researching your family history and learn about the records which will help you. Discover the heroes and rogues in your family and reveal the truth. New six week course at Wolverhampton City Archives starts on Saturday 15th June 2019 at 10.15 a.m. Each […]

    £30.00

  • Stourbridge: Group Visit – Church of St. Edmund, Dudley

    A Tour conducted by Jon Harcourt, church historian. Known locally as Bottom Church with dedication to St Edmund, King and Martyr, the church is in Castle Street Dudley. St. Edmund King of East Anglia from 855 AD to 870 AD was defeated by the Vikings, bound to a tree and executed with arrows, then beheaded […]

  • Heraldry Group

    Heraldry Heraldry can be admired, or enjoyed, (or even disliked) at a distance, but it can be much more fun with a measure of participation. Quote from Ralph Brocklebanks publication "How to Do Heraldry".

  • Wolverhampton: Skulduggery at Soho Foundry

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

    Skulduggery at Soho Foundry - by Mary Bodfish Soho Foundry was created in 1795 by Matthew Boulton and James Watt. What skulduggery can Mary mean ? James Watt's letter copying machine preserved the remarkable story, in the words of all those involved, of what happened in 1826 when the Soho Foundry's chief cashier was caught […]

  • North Staffs: Research Evening

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

    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.

  • Birmingham: Oral History at The Hive

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

    Oral History at The Hive The Hive is jointly home to Worcester Records Office and The University of Worcester. Maggie Tohill our speaker is an archivist with the Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service and is one of the Oral History Society's regional networkers for the West Midlands area. Maggie will look at how family historians […]

  • Bromsgrove: Visit

    This month the Group will be taking part in a visit, Hartlebury Castle. Note this is a Saturday and not the usual 3rd Tuesday evening

  • Summer Refreshments Members Evening & Help Desk

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

    KFHS - Trying out the info and websites we've learned about this year

  • Stourbridge: Identifying Old Photographs

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

    Old Photographs and their identification and dating A presentation by Tom Doig. Tom will not consider the technical processes used in production of photographs but rather use the clues offered by the mounts, the dimensions and the materials to uncover the essential facts. Similarly costumes will not be examined as a dating factor as grandma, just as […]