We are a friendly group of people with various levels of genealogy experience who get together to help each other to learn more about different aspects of family history and to work on our family trees and on our shared project on Edgar Street, Worcester. The group meets fortnightly on Monday afternoons in Meeting Room 2 at the Hive, and although the room is booked from 2 to 3.30pm members may well stay later in the Hive to continue their investigations or discussions informally. This year I am holding an informal genealogy meet up at the Hive Archives without a booked room on Thursday afternoons at 2pm. It is the same week as the main group so the first one will be 17th September. 

The meeting room has audio-visual, wifi and internet facilities available, though it is helpful if members can bring along their own laptop or tablet if possible. We aim to have a mixture of talks and presentations by group members, and occasionally outside speakers, plus working on family trees using either the resources available on the archives floor of the Hive or via online sites. If you have your own Ancestry or FindMyPast subscription you should be able to sign in to these sites via wifi.

As a number of group members do not have Worcestershire ancestors in their trees we decided to pick a Worcester street to study so that people could investigate the families living there over the years. This gives us practice at using county archive and other local records, experience that will be helpful if we visit other archives for our own family research. We chose Edgar Street because it has a long and potentially interesting history and are already finding some fascinating families and stories.

You will find a "button" below to download the 2026/2027 programme.

Sue Ash

August 2026