When making contact with us, please check your email address
We love getting messages and queries from people and always try and reply within a day or so. As we are all volunteers, we can't necessarily reply immediately but we…
Statement re Coronavirus Precautions
With the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) the committee of Malvern Family History Society are implementing the following changes. These are necessary as many of our members and volunteers are in…
Have you ancestors who served The Worcestershire Regiment?
We have had this information from the Mercian Regiment who are custodians of the archive collections of The Worcestershire Regiment (and its forebears). “We offer a specialist research enquiry service…
Exhibition and Viewing of 31 High Street, Droitwich Spa
31 High Street, Droitwich Spa was originally an open hall house which dates back in parts to 1340. Over the last few years it has been restored and there is…
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…
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…