Interested in finding your family's past? We are a family history group covering the Bromsgrove area, with links to many local and family history researchers in Worcestershire and across the Midlands.
The GRO (General Record Office) are publicising the fact that birth, marriage and death certificates need not cost more than £9.25. The public are being enticed into ordering certificates from commercial organisations that charge up to £30 or more.
See the booklet on the GRO website, which covers consular records, births and deaths on hovercraft, deaths on oil and gas rigs and more.
Throughout the 4th to the 7th November the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) ran a stall at the Hobbycrafts exhibition at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre. The FFHS is an umbrella organisation for all family history societies, being an educational charity which represents, advices and supports the local family history societies.
Bromsgrove's branch chairman, Mike Yegwart, was there on Friday, the 5th November, with Malvern FHS, intoducing visitors to the benefits of joining a society. As this was a national exhibition many were from the far flung reaches of our island, necessitating a quick look up for their nearest society. As usual there were the usual "I'm stuck" query, but there were also quite a few adoption type problems, as well.
Bromsgrove BMSGH attended the Monk or Murderer event at St Leonard's Parish Church, Beoley on 1st and 2nd October, a weekend of events dedicated to family and community history. Branch members answered visitors' queries on how to trace your family tree and what records were available for the area.
Branch Chairman Mike Yegwart also presented an information album to the family of Vance L. Slade, a Beoley soldier killed during World War I. Click the Read More link for more pictures...
Local news coverage of the event in the Redditch Standard and Redditch Advertiser.
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