Paleography talk – May 2024
Our meeting this month was on Paleography and was given by Rhys Griffith. The notes from the meeting, together with worked examples (i.e. documents and their transcription) are available to…
March Talk: Powick Hospital Patients in World War 1
Sarah Dentith gave the March talk on Powick Hospital Patients in World War I, using her extensive research on this topic. If you wish to follow in her footsteps you…
Join us at the Midlands Family History Show
MFHS will be attending this show on Saturday 16th March at the Three Counties Showground near Malvern, so it's right on our doorstep! We how you will be able to…
February 2024 Meeting – Art History
As a change from our normal diet of family history, February's meeting was on the subject of Art History. Jasmine Kee gave us a quick guide to Western/European art history…
Report on January 2024 Meeting
We enjoyed Linda Hammond’s interesting talk, from SW France, on Researching Criminal Children via Zoom. She suggested that there were several reasons why children might become criminals: poverty, lack of…
Useful Websites
At our December meeting the subject of where to look online for genealogical information other than the usual suspects (FindMy PAst, Ancestry, etc.). Gwen Evans has produced a list of…
A New Resource for Members
Paul Millington is prefacing each meeting with a short talk, nominally 10 minutes, on a genealogical topic to help people to use and understand the vast number of sources available…
A tour around Tewkesbury’s Alleys
On 23rd August about 30 members of MFHS gathered in Tewkesbury for a guided tour of the maze of alleys existing in the town. Why the alleys exist The alleys…
History Open Day, Hanley Swan
The Hanleys Village Society organised a history open day for Saturday 12 August. The exhibition at Hanley Swan Village Hall showed the development of the villages of Hanley Castle and…
Malvern in a Day Book Published
You may remember the talk by our member Jan Condon on the "Malvern in a Day" project during lockdown. This project started as a task to catalogue the archive of…
How age at death has changed in Malvern since 1861
The project to transcribe the burial records for Malvern Cemetery gives us the opportunity to do some analysis into how life has changed since 1861, the year that the cemetery…
New Records Available to Members
The project to transcribe the burial records for Malvern Cemetery is now complete. We have made the records are available on the website for members to search. There were some…
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