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…
Worcestershire Local History Forum Day
On Saturday 11 November Robert and I ran a publicity stand for MFHS at the Worcestershire Local History Forum Day. The event was hosted and organised by Bromsgrove Society Local…
Robert & Wendy in the publicity gazebo at Malvern Wells Fete
MFHS at The Hanleys Village Show and Malvern Wells Fete
Robert and I ran a publicity stand at The Hanleys Village Show on Saturday 26 August and Malvern Wells Fete on Sunday 10 September. At both events we had a…
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…
AGM 2023
The papers for the 2023 AGM on 5th July are now available in the members' area of the website. Please click here to view them. Please note, you need to…
Do you have relatives from Wellington Heath?
Wellington Heath is a village just over the border into Herefordshire, so if you have ancestors from around Malvern, you may be interested in this event on 3rd June 2023.…
Meeting Report 5th April 2023
Photo now known to be Jessie Davis from Newport. Taken in early 1890s The theme of the meeting was photographs and what they can lead to in terms of your…