Every Family has a story to tell……….Welcome to mine
Inspired totally, by the fantastic talk that I attended at #RootsTech London, by the wonderful Amberly Black (@genealogygirl_), I have finally started to sort, organise, catalog, digitise and archive my Photo collection. This has been on my "to do" list for a longtime and after completely overhauling my Genealogy files, I thought it was about … Continue reading Organising Your Family History Photographs – Part 1
Welcome to week 18 of my Genealogy challenge, from the wonderful Amy Johnson Crow, of writing something about your Ancestors for a whole year, #52Ancestors in 52 weeks. Week 18's prompt is "Where there's a Will", but which Will to choose? This is The Last Will and Testament of my 5 x Great Grandfather John … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Where There’s a Will”
Welcome to Week 17 of my Genealogy Challenge, from the wonderful Amy Johnson Crow, #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks, week 17's prompt is "Land". I struggled a bit with an appropriate subject, I come from humble stock, there are no known Land Owners amongst any of my Family, so I settled on "working the Land", I … Continue reading #52Ancestors ‘The Farmlands of South Fambridge’
Welcome to week 12 of my Genealogy challenge, from the wonderful Amy Johnson Crow, of writing something about your Ancestors for a whole year, #52Ancestors in 52 weeks. This week the theme is "Popular", which is defined as "liked or admired by many people". I decided to look away from my tree this time and … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Popular”
It's now Week 11, of the wonderful Genealogy prompts from Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestor's in 52 weeks and this week we are looking at the subject of "Luck". We all need a little bit of "luck" sometimes with our Genealogy and sometimes it can come when we least expect it. I am always going … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Luck”
I am deeply honoured and humbled to be the new face behind Family Tree Magazine’s general miscellany page, known as ‘Dear Paul’. I would like to take the opportunity to thank my predecessors, ‘Dear Karen’ and ‘Dear Tom’ for all their hard work over the years, making the column such a loved and integral part … Continue reading ‘Dear Paul’
So far so good, I am keeping up! It's now Week 9, of the wonderful Genealogy prompts from Amy Johnson Crow and this week we are looking at the subject of "Disaster". The first thing that I thought of was; what would happen if I lost all my years of Family History Research, due to … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Disaster”
I recently shared online some pictures of my Family Tree Filing system and organisation and it proved to be popular amongst fellow Family History Researchers, so I thought I would expand and explain my system in a bit more detail. Rest assured, my workspace and systems were chaotic and I found myself wasting too much … Continue reading Organising Your Family History
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Family Secrets and what to do with them? When we set off on our Family History journey and start delving into the past and the lives of our Ancestors, I’m sure that we all envisage some idyllic moments mixed in with some harder times, but … Continue reading The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
If you are a regular Twitter user, you might have caught site of a truly wonderful new Genealogy Community called Walk My Past. The site and online community is run by owner Abbie and has quickly built up a great online following and a growing list of Genies and followers. Like the best ideas, this … Continue reading Walk My Past
The Chiddicks Family Tree 