Please note as from Saturday 30th January 2021 the new website of Caribbean Family History Group (Solihull & Birmingham) is:
www.caribbeanfamilyhistorygroup.org
Please click on the above link to access.
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The next meeting of Caribbean Family History Group is this Saturday 30th January at 2.00pm GMT via Zoom. The formal meeting will be from 2.00pm until 4.00pm.
We hope you can join us. If you have any particular area you would like us to cover in our meetings, please email us and we will do our best to include it in a future meeting.
At the start of 2021 we thought it would be a good idea to review what we have achieved with our family history research and our family trees and perhaps set some goals for 2021. With this is mind our agenda for this month’s meeting will be :
We would welcome your contribution to this meeting by reviewing your research and being able to show or share where you are in your research, and then to share where you would like or need help.
Please email us to register your attendance at our meeting here . For new attendees the first meeting is free of charge. Following this, attendance is £5 per session or £20 annual membership fee. Please make payments through the Parish Chest at the following link: parish chest.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday. If you have any queries at all, please email: cfhg.sol.birm@gmail.com
The next meeting of Caribbean Family History Group is on Saturday 30th January at 2.00pm GMT via Zoom. The formal meeting will be from 2.00pm until 4.00pm.
We hope you can join us. If you have any particular area you would like us to cover, please email us and we will do our best to include it in the meeting.
At the start of 2021 we thought it would be a good idea to review what we have achieved with our family history research and our family trees and perhaps set some goals for 2021. With this is mind our agenda for this meeting will be :
We would welcome your contribution to this meeting by reviewing your research and being able to show or share where you are at in your research, and then to share where you want or need help to make the progress you wish to.
From your responses we hope to be able to tailor our year’s activities to meet as many of your needs as possible.
Please email us to register your attendance at our meeting here . For new attendees the first meeting is free of charge. Following this, attendance is £5 per session or £20 annual membership fee. Please make payments through the Parish Chest at the following link: parish chest.
We look forward to seeing you on 30th! If you have any queries at all, please email cfhg.sol.birm@gmail.com
We would like to wish all our members and researchers a safe and peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
There is no December meeting. Our next meeting is Saturday 30th January at 2.00pm (GMT). Make a note in your diaries! We hope to see you then. More details of our plans to follow.
Join us via zoom on Saturday at 2.00pm (GMT) to hear Stephen’s talk.
If you have a brick wall you would like help with, do let us know and we will help you at the meeting. Email us here to register and we will send you a link. If you would like some help, let us know by email and we may be able to do some preliminary work to assist.
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
We hope to see you all at our next meeting on Saturday 28th November at 2.00GMT via zoom.
We will be hearing a talk by one of our Senior Researchers, Stephen Porter – Jamaica Geography and Family History. He will be exploring:
This will be a very interesting talk, so please email us at mailto:cfhg.sol.birm@gmail.com to register your interest and we will send you the link.
Our membership fee is £20 per year or £5 per meeting. Your first meeting is free.
More information about the talk is available here
We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
We received varied enquiries covering different islands at the Really Useful Family History Show on Saturday. Thank you for visiting us! If anyone would like any further information or help with anything, please email us on mailto: cfhg.sol.birm@gmail.com . Please note that all talks are now available until Saturday 21st November . Log in as previously advised.
You are welcome to join us at our next meeting on Saturday 28th November at 14.00hrsGMT when Steve will be talking about ‘Jamaican Geography and your family history’ The first meeting is free and thereafter £5 per meeting or £20 for annual membership. Email us to register at the above address.
If you haven’t already purchased your tickets, buy them in advance to make a saving! Tickets available at £7 per person until midnight GMT on Friday 13th November. On the day tickets will be £10 per person. Purchase directly from their website . There will be numerous speakers as well as the opportunity to talk to us in a live ‘booth’. Bring us your Caribbean Family History mysteries and we will endeavour to help you!
You will be able to talk to us in a booth anytime between 10.00am and 4.00pm at the Really Useful Family History Show. Many Family History Groups will be present as well as numerous speakers at this virtual event organised by the Federation of Family History. Tickets are £7 per person and can be obtained from their website. Click here
For more information, please see their website. Bring us your Caribbean Family history queries!
Thank you for joining us at our zoom meeting on Saturday.
We had an informative and interesting meeting, learning the 5 steps of family history and all about searching for ‘Big Sam’! We reiterated the importance of talking to elders and even recording the chat so you don’t miss that important bit of information.
Visitors and members joined us from across the globe who are searching for ancestors in Jamaica, Barbados, Cuba, Panama, St Kitts & Nevis, Grenada, St Croix, St Thomas and Anguilla.
There was also a presentation of the varied activities of the Caribbean Family History Group during Black History Month through the years.
Our next appearance will be at the Family History Federation’s ‘Really Useful History Show’ on Saturday 14th November. This is an online worldwide event when you can talk to Family history groups and listen to talks throughout the day. For more information and to purchase tickets click here
Our November zoom meeting will be on Saturday 28th November at 1400 GMT when one of our committee will be giving a talk on ‘Jamaican Geography as Family History’. We hope to see you there!
Join us at our monthly zoom research meeting on Saturday 31st October at 14.00 GMT.
If you have a brick wall that you would like assistance with, email us here to let us know and we will do our best to help you and point you in the right direction. If you are happy for us to share this , we can discuss and help on Saturday.
Please join us on Saturday. Your first session is free, thereafter £5 per session or £20 for an annual membership fee.
Overseas members can pay membership fees by by using the Family History Federation’s Parish Chest. The following link will take you directly to our page:
Please email us here to register and we will send you the link. We look forward to meeting you!
During Black History Month we are reflecting about how as a small group in 2008 we started researching our family history and helping others to do the same. We would encourage you to join us on that journey.
It can be frustrating at times but is so rewarding as we discover more of the lives of our ancestors.
Discovering our black heritage is not easy. We have a lot of obstacles to overcome . The slave trade is a large factor in the difficulties we may have in tracing our ancestors. Millions of people were moved across the globe, and there was little documentation. Families and communities were split and traditions and cultures were lost.
‘Who Do You Think You Are’ magazine carried a story earlier this year of Adrian Stone who traced his family from Jamaica back to Africa and gathered 6000 ancestors along the way. You can read this interesting story here
Make this the year that you begin that journey. Join us at our meetings and we will help you get started .
We meet on the last Saturday of the month via zoom. Look back here for more information.
Thank you to all those who attended our meeting on Saturday 26th September.
We had another interesting and informative meeting . Hopefully we will have given you inspiration and spurred you on to go further in your family tree. We discussed talking to elders, assisted a member with their tree and had an interesting talk on ‘Mix-up, secretive Caribbean families’.
A number of websites were mentioned during the meeting as detailed here:
If you would like to become a member, please email us here .We will send you an application form and advise payment details.
Our next meeting is on Saturday 31st October.
Please join us at our zoom meeting on Saturday 26th September at 14.00BST.
Our topics this month will include:
Please email us to register your attendance. Your first meeting is FREE, thereafter £5 per meeting.
Membership is £20 per year. Please let us know if you would like to arrange membership.
We hope to see you on Saturday.
If you missed Guy Grannum’s presentation through the National Archives in June, it is now available on Youtube. Guy is an author and genealogist who has completed extensive research over the last 25 years into his Caribbean ancestors. Caribbean Connections discusses Caribbean migration to the UK. Click here to view the talk.
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