Catching Up With FamilySearch Presenter Sharon Hintze FamilySearch.org is the largest family history website in the world, with billions of names across thousands of collections - and more added monthly. In this talk, Sharon Hintze will tell us about the recently completed digitising of its microfilm collection. In describing the latest major databases that have […]

Genealogy Modelling Kinship - Are We Related ? The Kingsley Norris Memorial Lecture Presenter - Dr Alan C Smith, FInstP FIET FRAS Genealogy is the study of our family – but how large is it and are we related? Our speaker today will describe Pedigree - and Cousin - Collapse and how these can be […]

The History (Research) of The Friends' Ambulance Unit The Motor Ambulance Convoys and its Members during WW1. Presenter - Paul Handford MBE The talk looks at the experiences of those individuals who, for conscience and other reasons, chose to serve in the non-combatant Friends’ Ambulance Unit (Quakers) during 1st World War. Todays speaker will explore […]

The Staffordshire Enclosure Award Maps Project Presenter - Richard Totty Richard is Chairman Friends of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archives (FoSSA) which successfully applied for a grant from the Midland Ancestors’ Kemp Legacy Fund. Their proposal was to prepare digital images of Staffordshire Enclosure (or Inclosure) Award Maps. The Enclosure Award Maps were drawn […]

How We Lived Then Presenter - Mary Bodfish This talk is based on probate inventories with Mary making particular use of the inventory of a West Bromwich man who died in 1700 to give a guided tour of his house and farm; it also includes the history of probate documents with an element of family […]

Mobility in Your Family History Presenter - Dr. Mike Haynes Human beings are always restless. Throughout history we have moved in different ways. We can migrate to live in different places. But mobility is something different. It is about our journeys to work, to school, the trips to the shops, our holidays. Mobility takes us […]

Heraldry in an African Context - The Peplow Memorial Lecture Presenter - Andrew Cusack In this talk Andrew will explore how the European system of heraldry has developed in Africa, particularly by exploring the arms of the Dutch colonial administrator Jan van Riebeeck and how the elements of his coat of arms have been reinterpreted and […]

The Wednesbury Workhouse and the Parish Poor: 1750-1900 Presenter - Keith Robinson The talk will tell the stories of people whose voices are often unheard. It will reveal the lives of those who were in the Wednesbury Workhouse and in that of neighbouring West Bromwich. It will look at the children who were indentured as […]

The West Midlands Police Museum: history and archives Presenter - Corrine Brazier Corinne is the Heritage Manager at West Midlands Police Museum, now located  at the former Central Custody Block, the Lock-Up, in Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. Re-opening on 9 April 2022, two years had been spent refurbishing the museum which is spread across three floors. […]

The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1914-1918 Books and Cartoons Presenter - Paul Jacques and David Vaux   Men from the RWR played a major role on the Western Front in WWI. The regiment lost 11,610 men; six were awarded the Victoria Cross for outstanding bravery. Paul and David’s presentation and display will raise our awareness of […]