Spotlight on Midland Ancestors
Jackie Cotterill introduces a busy famil y history society with a history that, quite unusually for such groups , goes back to the 1960s
The society’s research centre
Society stand at Family Tree Live in 2019
Midland Ancestors started life in 1963 as Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (BMSGH). In September 2017, it was thought that a new more up to date name was needed. A vote amongst our members came up with the Midland Ancestors name. The changes that had taken place since the Society was inaugurated in 1963 were beyond the scale of anybody’s imagination then. The internet had not been dreamt of and people’s research patterns had changed over the years. It was felt that the Society needed a modern persona to reflect the 21st century.