York Family History

International Family History Society based in York UK. Genealogists on site at York Library (Monday) Borthwick (Fridays) 10 till 4pm

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

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.

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham A beautiful map of a time gone by, Aston Birmingham.

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@BloozEXTRA What on earth is going on? I lived in this City for 30 years and I bring friends down from York to show them the beautiful Victorian buildings of Birmingham. It looks like tarmac alley!

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham Love this. I recall John Morris Jones booklets from the 1980s which were so detailed. @YorkFHS @BALHNews @histassoc

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

Really disappointing that we cannot go ahead with this years Fair but really excited about our new venue and plans for our 2027 event

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@JaneEFindlay @Bradford_St_Bhm @RosieP4 Good point!

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@Bradford_St_Bhm Will the culprits ever be found? CCTV?

[Steve @stevegbarrett]

Date for your diary - Tee Bylo our brilliant membership secretary of @YorkFHS is at the Dead Good Festival this Sunday at the Homestead York at 2pm

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

Awaiting the Victory Bus of the champions York City! Great times for the Minstermen #york #football

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

Great for @YorkFHS to be at this conference. Really enjoyed it and look forward to the next.
@IHGS @BALHNews

[Register of Qualified Genealogists @RegQualGenes]

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: https://t.co/raZWL6XxrW
#genealogy #familyhistory #RQGConf2026

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

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 ⁦

[Charles Spencer @cspencer1508]

British Women’s fashion over the last millennium and a half….

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham @Brumpic Was this the legendary Ravenhurst?

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

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 ⁦

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

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! ⁦🤔

[Birmingham Archives & Collections @TheIronRoom]

#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

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham Does it include passing Stechford Water Mill?

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

@TheIronRoom @LibraryofBham @Brumpic Wow that was a quick turn over even for Birmingham!

[York Family History @YorkFHS]

Happy Easter everyone. York FHS visited beautiful Bradford Cathedral this week in search of ancestors. A site of worship since the 7th century

[Barendina Smedley @fugitiveink]

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.)