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Visit to Droitwich church
On 11th September a group of members visited the Sacred Heart, & St Catherine of Alexandria church in Droitwich. The Catholic church was opened in 1921 and is decorated with…
Annual General Meeting 2025 – Notice
The 30th Annual General Meeting of the Malvern Family History Society will be held at the Eden Centre, Grovewood Road, Malvern, WR14 1GD, on Wednesday 2 July 2025 at 19:00…
Talks in aid of HeartStart
Malvern Town Council are holding some talks in aid of the charity HeartStart in Spring 2025. They may of interest to our members as they are about local history. Details…
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…
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…