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The availability of census data

This letter has been received from Richard Roger at the University of Edinburgh via the Worcestershire Local History Forum. Dear Chairman I am contacting you because I believe local and…

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Changes at Worcestershire Archives

There have been some significant changes at the Worcestershire Archives, the Hive, and related services. We have received the following communication from the Archives service. Note: we are now in…

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2021 Programme published

We have a full programme of talks arranged for 2021. The first 4 at least will be on Zoom and the rest are marked "To be decided". We hope that…

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MIs now come as part of membership
One of the churches for which we have record sets of MIs

MIs now come as part of membership

We have to date documented the Monumental (or Memorial) Inscriptions (MIs) for 5 parishes and are planning to do more. In the past, these have been available to buy at…

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More titles added to our Members’ Library

Many thanks to all our members who have been sorting through their books in lockdown and released many useful books into our library. These are books that local members can…

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Rootstech announce a free virtual conference

FamilySearch.org run annual genealogy conferences, Rootstech, in the US and UK. The UK one is held in London and this can make it difficult and expensive for our local members…

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MFHS meetings move online

Although we had hoped to return to live meetings in the Autumn, this has proved impossible. This is due to both continuing uncertainty of whether such meetings would be allowed…

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