Every Family has a story to tell……….Welcome to mine
Thank you Stephanie for nominating me for this Liebster Award. I was nominated by; https://pattersonliving.home.blog RULES Thank the blogger who nominated you, and provide a link to their blog. Answer the 11 questions given to you. Share 11 facts about yourself. Nominate 5-11 other bloggers. Ask your nominees 11 questions. Notify your nominees once you … Continue reading Liebster Award
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”
We are well and truly into 'Lockdown' now and we have all kind of adapted to a "New Norm', whatever 'Normal' actually is? If you saw my first post about self-isolation, you will know that this blog is all about the positivity and the good things that I have seen or found online. If you … Continue reading #SelfIsolation 2 ‘The New Norm’ and Captain Tom in Lego Form!
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 16 of my Genealogy Challenge, from the wonderful Amy Johnson Crow, writing something about one of my Ancestors every week for a year, #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 16's prompt is "Air", which I must admit I struggled with a little bit. Then I realised my Italian born Stampa Family were Barometer … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Air”
Welcome to Week 15 of my Genealogy Challenge, from the wonderful Amy Johnson Crow, of writing something about one of my Ancestors every week for a year, hashtag 52Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 15's prompt is "Fire". Originally I was going to write about my "Fire Fighting" Ancestors, but I have already covered them in … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Fire”
Welcome to Week 14 of my Genealogy Challenge, from the wonderful Amy Johnson Crow, of writing something about one of my Ancestors every week for a year, #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Week 14's prompt is "Water" and if there was any doubt about my families qualification for this category then the fact that there are … Continue reading #52Ancestors “Water”
This is the fifth in my new series of blogs, telling the life stories of my 2 x Great Grand parents and next up is Joseph Keyes, the ninth child of eleven children, born to Joseph Keyes (Senior) and Hannah (Anna) Maria King. Joseph Keyes was born 12th January 1852 in Prittlewell, Essex and he … Continue reading The Life and Times of Joseph Keyes
We are living in unprecedented and uncertain times, something that has never happened before in our lifetimes. We are truly "Living History" right now. In years to come we will all look back at these times, but how much will we remember? More importantly, what will we remember? Firstly I now realise how seriously "Fragile" … Continue reading Self Isolation and how to make it work and in other news…..the Cat over the road is called Walter
The Chiddicks Family Tree 