Tag: Ancestry

Who Was John Thomson?

Trying to find my 3 x GGF According to the baptism records for my 2 x great grandfather John Thomson (1819-1887), his father was also named John Thomson. But that is all I know about him. I have been researching my family tree since the early 2000’s, and […]

John Peter Jackson 1861 – 1915

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF John Peter Jackson, Bargeman BIRTH John Peter Jackson was born on the on the eighteenth of June, 1861, to Martha Jackson at Amwell End, Ware, in the county of Hertfordshire, in England. Martha’s maiden name was Timson, and her parents were Henry Timson […]

Wither thou goest, Ancestry?

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 […]