Every year ‘Who Do Yo Think You Are’ magazine arranges a Transcription day when individuals can volunteer for a day to transcribe records. As family history researchers, we all benefit from online records and this is our chance to help. You can choose from a number of projects including Family Search. This year the day […]
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Did you know that recently almost 17,000 West Indies Regiment records have gone online at Find My Past. These are mainly records from WW1. If you believe your ancestor may have served in the regiment, take a look at Find My Past. The Caribbean Family History Group has its own Military Expert so if you
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* The UK National Archives offer a number of online talks including one on 14th January on how to navigate their online Discovery Catalogue . More information on talks available can be found at this link. Always register in advance for the talks. *Eventbrite are offering a number of Black History talks by Paul Crooks
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Just to confirm our next meeting will be on Saturday 28th January 2023 at 14.00hrs (GMT) via Zoom. We will be discussing the 5 steps to family history research. Please join us , you may learn some new techniques in finding that elusive ancestor! Book your place by email this address. Members free of charge,
We would like to wish all of our members , researchers and family historians a very Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year. Our January meeting will be held on Saturday 28th January 2023 at 14.00hrs (GMT) . We will be including a beginners Workshop in our meeting. Make a note in your diary. Further details
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The Society of Genealogists have released their programme of events for January which can be found in the link that follows. The group have now secured new premises in London and are searching for Trustees to join the board so if you have a passion for family history and might be interested in this role,
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In October, as part of our research sessions on tracing your ancestors back to the period of slavery, one of our senior researchers, Steve Porter gave a detailed talk on tracing back to this period in time. This is the first part of his talk which gives detailed information including documents, on how he traced
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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
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Thank you to all those who attended our November meeting both in person at the Core Library and online. Our thanks also to the Solihull Core Library for allowing us to display our exhibition and for all their help. We would like to extend a warm welcome to the first time attendees at our meeting
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We are pleased to advise that our Exhibition at Solihull Core Library has been extended until the end of November and we have decided to offer another open day and free of charge hybrid research meeting for our final meeting of the year this Saturday 26th November. If you have not seen our exhibition, do
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