Do you have Kidderminster connections?
For those of you with ancestors in Kidderminster, there is a new group on Facebook: the Kidderminster & District Family History Facebook Group. They are a closed group who use…
Older items of news which may still be of some interest.
Q&A Panel – The Results
In April 2019, our meeting was a "Ask the Panel" session. Three of our most expert and knowledgeable members were on the panel: Frank Townsend, Gwen Evans and Mary Fraser.…
Tour the forge in Barnards Green
The Barnards Green History Group invite you to join them at an open morning of an historic local venue. Barnards Green Forge was opened in 1868 by William Reynolds and…
CARN cards – some information from one of our members
I wonder if members know about the demise of the County Archive Research Network (CARN) card last November. I am planning my annual visit to Dorset and thought I would…
Lower Howsell’s very own Lark Rise to Candleford!
Susan Payne, a member of MFHS who lives in Lincolnshire, has this postcard of Lower Howsell Road in Malvern sent by her great-grandmother. She wrote to us asking if anyone…
General Register Office (GRO) – PDF Extended Pilot
The GRO is piloting a service from 12th October 2017 to provide portable document format (PDF) copies of digitised historical birth and death records. The pilot will run for a…
Worcestershire – Manorial Documents Register
Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service has recently completed a project, funded by The National Archives, to update, correct and computerise the Manorial Documents Register for Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The Manorial…
Have you got an amazing story in your family tree?
Plum pictures are developing a new series, exploring individual stories of British heroism, adventure, survival, exploration and ingenuity. Importantly, can you think of an object at the centre of this…
General Register Office launches new indexes
The attached newsletter from Lost Cousins was received by our former chairman Frank Townsend. It contains information from the General Register Office regarding a new index and digital copies of…
MFHS at 21
We celebrate our 21st birthday this year, so at the AGM on 6th July we marked it with a birthday cake suitably decorated for the occasion. Frank Townsend was invited…
The People’s Collection – Your County Needs You
The People's Collection is the culmination of a 4 year programme of events and activities, organised by Worcestershire Archives, commemorating the role Worcestershire played in World War One. We want…
Malvern Family History Needs You!
Using a well known saying from our ancestors day I would like to ask our members, non-members or anyone willing if they would consider helping out with our projects. The…