The YouTube link to Steve Barrett's entertaining and dramatic talk "My Milling Ancestors" has been added to the society Facebook group. Join now via our website yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk
Please join us for the meeting of York FHS on Wednesday 3rd June. This month's meeting is a talk from our own Steve Barrett "My Milling Ancestors". The story and lives of the Yorkshire millers who were Steve's ancestors is a fascinating tale of living this dangerous life.
I. In celebration of York's Dead Good Festival – Tee @TheDeadSleuth
presents LIGHT & LINEAGE – HEALING ANCESTRAL INHERITANCE.
Join Tee on SUNDAY MAY 10 2026 as she chronicles the poignant and challenging discoveries of her own family history research.
#SoQuietus
We welcomed nearly 100 genealogists in Birmingham (UK) on Saturday 25 April 2026 for our biannual family history conference. Networking was a core element of the day. More impressions on our website: qualifiedgenealogists.org/20…#genealogy#familyhistory#RQGConf2026
A glorious visit to St Martins Church in Birmingham today to view the wonderful carvings depicting the last days of Jesus on earth - from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem to the traitors kiss. @TheIronRoom @OurTownStory @GuildOneName
Great talk at YAYAs on Wednesday last - all about Rev Charles Wellbeloved. I visited his grave at the Unitarian chapel in St Saviourgate some time ago. Church burials had been banned in York by that time but the Council agreed to allow this one. @RoyalHistSoc
I was stumbling around in the archives yesterday and came across this cheeky chap advertising distemper in York in 1925. I thought distemper was a disease that animals got! 🤔
#OuterCircle today marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Outer Circle (Number 11) bus route. Here’s an illustrated description of the route and places of interest from 1927. Ref - Birmingham Guides C/2 (347423) @LibraryofBham
ALT Front cover of a guide. Title at the top reads - Outer Circle Omnibus Service, No.11. Beneath this is a circle with an illustration of two buses travelling down a rural road with a signpost on the right. Below this is more text including the distance of the route and the cost to travel.
Alleluia! Christ is risen!
(This is one of the remaining fragments of 15th century glass from St Nicholas, Blakeney, Norfolk. It survived the Tudor reformations, the puritans and the Civil War, and is still in the church today.)
Wednesday - this week - Gillian Waters talking to us about Family History - it’s myths and lies! Beware of pitfalls! Come learn with us. Should be great fun too. 7:30 Friends Meeting House New Earswick. @wyorksarchives @YorkshireFHSs @YorkCemFriends
#BirminghamHistory The Sacking of Dr. Priestley’s House at Fair Hill, Sparkbrook on 14 July 1791. An angry crowd attacked his house during four days of affray now known as the Priestley Riots. Priestley left for a new life in America shortly after. Ref: WK/B11/8187 @LibraryofBham
ALT Lithographic print. A scene of disarray - a large crowd gathered outside a three storey Georgian house on the left of the print. Small groups of people gathered at each window throwing objects down on to the ground. People in the crowd are helping themselves to belongings. A tree on the far right of the print. Beneath it, another group of people who appear drunk - a large opened barrel nearby.
Fabulous talk last night at our first event of 2026. The atmosphere was buzzing with loads of new visitors after our relaunch. Check out our website for our 2026 talks. @wyorksarchives @UoYBorthwick @OnePlaceStudies @GuildOneName