Online Event Using Zoom

When The Lights Went Out - Birmingham Goes To War Speaker - Andrew Lound Looking at Birmingham people during the 39-45 war, focussing on W.T. Avery’s famous Soho Foundry as well as the darkened streets of Birmingham. The Soho Foundry saw many employees volunteer and had many reserved occupations, Andrew has been able to access new information from both German and British archives for this presentation. Andrew is well known local speaker and commentator and has appeared numerous times on…

Annual General Meeting This years AGM will take place using Zoom video conferencing platform, a first for Midland Ancestors More details will appear here during March.    

Using 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 range and pitfalls of using DNA testing, particularly finding out where your family came from - Can you really be a Viking? Karen writes a…

Who'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.  Usually there is only one person who will be certain but there may be an indication lurking in the records.  Have you looked for them…