Bromsgrove BMSGH - The Family History Site for North Worcestershire
Connecting With the Past
Interested in finding your family's past? We are a family history group covering the Bromsgrove and Stourbridge areas, with links to many local and family history researchers in Worcestershire and across the Midlands.
Welcome
Welcome to the BMSGH branch covering Bromsgrove and surrounding areas of north Worcestershire from Kidderminster to Kings Norton and Redditch. This site also co-hosts the Stourbridge Branch of BMSGH.
Next Bromsgrove Branch Meeting: 9th Sept
Wednesday, 16 April 2014 17:00
“The Cadbury Story” by Alan Thornton a very popular local speaker
Two of the most unlikely business men came to Birmingham and created a world famous company, Cadbury's. They were motivated by what they saw in the back to back slums in Birmingham. George Cadbury states "No man should live or work where roses cannot grow". This statement is on the wall of his office and George wore a button hole to remind him of those slum conditions in Birmingham.
A factory in a garden was created at Bournville and houses in tree-lined streets for the people. The greatness of a man is measured not only by the good he does in his lifetime but by how it affects future generations.
The Cadbury money was used to finance the Pensioners Alliance League which was successful in bringing about the old age pension.
The Cadbury Story is a film plus a talk.
Records of Bromsgrove School
Sunday, 29 June 2014 18:13
The Findmypast website has released death records from Bromsgrove School. This limited set of 195 records mentions deaths of people associated with the school over the period 1899-1945, including in the Boer War, WWI and WWII. The collection is part of its 100-in-100 campaign, to release one hundred datasets in one hundred days.
The records can be searched from the link above (registration may be required).
New Bromsgrove Briefing
Sunday, 06 April 2014 17:00
The June 2014 issue of Bromsgrove Briefing is now available. Mike Fisher previews this month's meeting and presents a round-up of the latest genealogy news. Click here to download.
You can read previous newsletters in our archive.
Markwell Award Comes to Bromsgrove
Wednesday, 11 December 2013 20:32
Bromsgrove Member, and Webmaster, Mike Sharpe has been awarded the BMSGH's Fred Markwell Memorial Award for 2013. The award is presented each year to a member, not on the Executive Committee, who has made an outstanding contribution to the Society.
Follow us on Twitter
Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:32
Bromsgrove BMSGH is now on Twitter, at hashtag @BromsBMSGH.
We'll be using this to keep you informed about family history news and events in and around Bromsgrove. We look forward to connecting.
A live feed will be integrated at this site soon.
Remembering the Fallen
Wednesday, 16 October 2013 16:49
As part of the commemorations for the First World War, in 2014 Bromsgrove Branch will be relaying information from Remember the Fallen, a project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, to catalogue Worcestershire soldiers from WWI.
The project covers both casualties and those who served and returned, whose names are commemorated primarily on war memorials and rolls of honour in Worcestershire and some in surrounding counties. You can search the memorials here: http://www.rememberthefallen.co.uk/Memorials/ListMemorials
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Family History Blogs:
- The Master Genealogist to be Discontinued
- Tracing European Ancestors from Beyond the Danube – a half-day workshop on 13 April
- Family History Getaway: Breaking Further Through Brick Walls, a week-long intensive course 8-12 April
- The Future of Second Site, a Program for Publishing Genealogy Data
- Who Do You Think You Are? Features Jesse Tyler Ferguson
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson Retraces the Alaskan Trail on “Who Do You Think You Are?”
- London Parish Registers – Lecture on 17 April
- Historians Work to Preserve New England Church Records Of Early American Life
- Little Italy: The Story of London’s Italian Quarter, a one-hour talk on 24 April
- Making Contact: Surnames & Pedigrees Online and in the Society of Genealogists’ Library – Half-day Course 27 April
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