“These were babies, not numbers” I would like to share here a very special project by young Genealogist Daniel Loftus from Cork, Ireland. In Daniel’s own words: “I started Project Infant after discovering that I had a personal connection to the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. It […]
From Amwell End to Guisborough: the Life and Times of Peter Charles Jackson My husband’s grandfather, Peter Charles Jackson, was born on the twenty-first of January 1892 in Ware, Hertford, to Martha Jackson (born Bennett) and John Peter Jackson, a Bargeman. Peter was the fourth of six children […]
…or, how I found myself researching an unrelated family! On 30th July, 1907, someone identified only as ‘V’ sent a post card to ‘Miss Kingsford, 294 Brockley Road, London N6′. I purchased the above postcard on eBay, because it featured the home town of my husband’s great grandfather, […]
The above photograph was in a family photo album previously owned by my great grandparents and then grandparents. For many years, it intruiged me. Who was Thomas Warlow? Who was he to my great grandparents, in whose album it had been placed over a hundred years ago? The […]
As an amatuer geneaologist/family historian since 2008, I am (like so many of us) quite accustomed to meeting the occasional Brick Wall. But none has been quite so frustrating as my search for the final resting place of my husband’s maternal great grandmother, Rose Seabourne. In my search […]
On Tuesday, 3rd August 2021, I and many other Ancestry users received an email advising me that Ancestry were updating their Privacy Policy. On 4th August, the news reached the #Genealogy community on Twitter, resulting in a kind of virtual ‘meltdown’ by concerned genealogists and family historians. But […]
Examining the inscription on the headstone of my great-great grandfather John Buckley (1839-1901) who lies interred with his wife Emma Holland (1840-1919) in Aldershot Military Cemetery, I noticed another name: Charles J Davenport. Who was he, I wondered? Research revealed that Charles (1871 – 1901) was the first […]
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One of the unexpected benefits of signing up to the RootsTechConnect event recently was discovering more than one hundred relatives had also signed up! 107, to be exact. Who were all these people, I wondered? And why were the vast majority (over 100) in the United States (with […]
That’s a very good question. After all, I already have trees on Ancestry.co.uk, WikiTree, My Heritage….and so on. Why would I need yet another place to talk about my ancestors? It’s not as if I don’t sometimes struggle to keep them all updated… then there’s the question of […]
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