Welcome to 2013
It's a new year, why not learn something new.

We have two new courses starting next week.

Starting Your Family History is a nine week course begining on Thursday 10th January at 1.30-3.30.
It is our usual five week beginners course plus The Poor Law, Newspapers, Non-conformists and Apprentioces.

Starting on Monday 7th January at 1.30-3.30 is Digging Deeper Plus.
This includes using TNA and County Record Offices and covers Military, Education and Legal records, Passenger Lists and Railways and Canals.
It also last nine weeks.

The Couses are held at The Percival Guildhose and the lecturers are provided by the Rugby Family History Group.

Just time to enter this Competition run by the Federation of Family History Societies

 

The AGM went smoothly and a good time was had by all at the social.

The winner of the Harry Batchelor Prize this year was presented to Ann Luntley for her article "A Tragic Event at Anzio, Italy in 1944"

Pictures of the event are now on our Facebook page and will be added to the website, together with the winning article, shortly

Next week we have a trip to the TNA at Kew. There is still plenty of room on the coach - £25 per person (less if we get the numbers up!).

You don’t have to be a member of Rugby Family History Group – just contact Martyn, the Programme Secretary if you want to go.
How about a trip to Kew Gardens? – They’re only a short walk away.

Don’t forget that the London Family History Centre is still at TNA, where you can search Parish Register films. See http://www.londonfhc.org/  for details of what they have.

We leave the Coach Stand at the top of Barby Road (near the Queen’s Gate) at 7.45am on Thursday 22nd November.
We leave TNA at 5pm, so we get back sometime after 7pm.

If you can’t make it, the next trip is on Tuesday 26th February.

See you on the Coach!

News from Birmingham Library:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: NOVEMBER 2012

CLOSURE OF THE ARCHIVES SEARCHROOM IN PREPARATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF STOCK TO THE NEW LIBRARY OF BIRMINGHAM

From the week commencing Monday 26th November 2012, the archives search room of Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service will be closed to enable the preparation, packaging and removal of stock to the new Library of Birmingham.

The last day the archives search room will be open will be Friday 23rd November 2012. We will re-open on 3rd September 2013.

We regret the inconvenience this is likely to cause to our users. A new Library of Birmingham website will be launched soon and this will include contact details for the new Library.