Heritage

Heritage is a wide ranging term and may refer to examples of inheritance, legacy, heredity, and kinship, which is the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin.

So every aspect of The Metcalfe Society activities aim to identify, record and preserve the heritage value of all that is deemed Metcalfe - including family history, heraldry, how and where people lived, worked and moved, their names such as Mecca,  etc.   As part of these activities, trends appear and repeat themselves to reveal the interests of various Metcalfes too - another less tangible way of recording and preserving the Metcalfe heritage.  Therefore, The Metcalfe Society is not just about helping people trace their family tree but also holds an important collection of information on all that is Metcalfe.

An Annual General Meeting, which often includes the Muster,  brings together Metcalfes from around the world to North Yorkshire either in person or online.  Live meetings, in particular, meet in North Yorkshire, often in Wensleydale and the  Yorkshire Dales in the autumn, details are posted in our eNewsletter.

The celebrated UK TV programme 'Who Do You Think You Are' repeatedly illustrates a celebrity, tracing their family tree, to see where they have come from and how many ancestors have left a legacy that influences their identify and what they do today.  This our heritage too.  It is part of all of us, and we hope that we can help you to understand your own heritage.