Malvern Family History Society

Neighbouring Societies:

Herefordshire Family History Society. Gloucestershire Family History Society.

Shropshire Family History Society.

Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry
(covers Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire)

Other useful local sites:

The ancient town of Upton upon Severn. ( look up the history and genealogy pages)

Explore Englands Past. (ongoing interesting project, look up Herefordshire)

The Worcester branch of the BMSGH is a very interesting site to find information on your
Worcestershire ancestors particularly the section on Worcestershire's parishes

Guarlford village is two miles to the east of Malvern and has a good web site. They have a history group (GHG) and this link may interest you if your ancestors came from this area.

If you are lucky enough to have had an ancestor who was admitted to Powick Lunatic Asylum then this is the site for you. Or if you have lost track of an ancestor in or around Worcestershire it could be because they were taken in to the asylum. This recently opened user friendly site has a fully searchable database of digitized records from the asylum. It is also a fund of information on British medical history. George Marshall Medical Museum.
The 100 year rule applies.

Badsey is a village 2 miles to the east of Evesham and has an excellent website for family history researchers. It contains much about modern day Badsey, but also much historical information. The records section contains censuses from 1841 to 1901, parish registers, monumental inscriptions and many other records most of which are indexed. There are also indexes to people and places. It has information on, and links to, adjacent parishes. Anyone with an ancestor from this area should visit this site.

The mission of this Web site is to provide resources for family history researchers who have ancestors and families that lived in the Forest of Dean and its borders. This is one of the best family history sites in the country. Very many local records have been transcribed and are freely available on the site. If you are lucky enough to have had ancestors who lived in the area then you should use this site and be grateful for all the work put in by the sponsors of the site