Our research meeting will take place during the open day tomorrow Saturday 28th October at 14.00hrs (BST) and will be a hybrid meeting. If you are unable to join us in person at Solihull Library, please register for our meeting and join us online. We will include a virtual tour of the exhibition followed by …
Our research meeting will take place during the open day on Saturday 28th October at 14.00hrs (BST) and will be a hybrid meeting. If you are unable to join us in person at Solihull Library, please register for our meeting and join us online. We will include a virtual tour of the exhibition followed by …
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The next meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group is tomorrow, Saturday 25th February 2023 at 14.00 hrs (GMT) This meeting will extend the ‘beginner’s’ topic of our January meeting by touching on talking to relatives wherever they are, and how the stories and heritage they hold in their memory banks can help us make connections and …
If you would like to join the Caribbean Family History Group, our annual membership fee is £20. What is included in your membership: Free attendance at meetings and most talks either via Zoom or Hybrid Assistance with research where possible Sharing of tips. tricks, brainstorming brick walls etc with like minded people Add the surnames …
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Future Learn and the University of Strathclyde are again offering the opportunity to complete a Family history research course ‘Genealogy – Researching your Family Tree’ where you can learn the basics of research and start to build your own family tree. More information can be found here If you are considering taking a DNA test …
Visit our Black History Month Exhibition on the upper floor of Solihull Library. We are exploring how to trace your ancestors from the slavery period, what records are available to use and the accessibility of these records. If you are looking for ancestors from the Caribbean and would like some assistance with your research , …
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Thank you to all those who attended our September meeting and a warm welcome to newcomers. We had a most informative and interesting meeting which gave us lots of information on tracing our ancestors from the period of slavery. This was the first of three meetings in which we will be discovering how to trace …
Our next meeting is on Saturday 30th July at 14.00hrs (BST) via Zoom. Please join us for, what I am sure will be an interesting presentation, by publisher and author Richard Atkinson and Researcher Yvette Hewitt – A Jamaica Connection: Empire, Slavery, Sugar and DNA The story of two cousins- one descended from the enslaved …
The next meeting of the Caribbean Family History Group will be tomorrow , Saturday 25th June at 14.00hrs (BST). This will be a follow up to the DNA101 talk last month, when we hope to discuss the following: how to separate maternal/paternal matches; explain how you investigate relationships; Look at details of tree matches If …
Our July meeting, the last before the summer break will be on Saturday 30th July at 14.00 hrs (BST) We are welcoming author, Richard Atkinson and researcher Yvette Hewitt who will be talking about Richards book , Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract. The book is a family history quest from the North of England to the …
