Every Family has a story to tell……….Welcome to mine
Welcome to week 23 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 weeks prompt is 'Wedding' and one of my favourite Family History pictures is the Wedding of my Great Uncle Peace Chiddicks and Dolly Ellis. The Marriage … Continue reading #52Ancestors ‘Wedding’
I debated and deliberated for a long time whether to share Grandad's story with a wider audience, it was written over 20 years ago and sadly there is nobody around who would know who he was writing it for. I had a slight pang of guilt sharing his own words in a public forum, but … Continue reading Grandad’s Story
Welcome to week 22 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 weeks prompt is 'Uncertain'. The Dictionary defines 'Uncertain' as: not completely confident or sure of something. That for a Genealogist is how we spend most of … Continue reading #52Ancestors ‘Uncertain’
Apologies for the slight delay between these blogs, family issues kind of got in the way of this project. I hope that are enjoying my Family History Photograph reorganisation series of blogs and if you missed the first two parts, they can be found here; Part 1 Part 2 We are now ready to scan, … Continue reading Organising Your Family History Photographs – Part 3
Welcome to week 21 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 prompt is "Tombstone", now if you know me well, you will know that I am a little bit OCD with trying to find the … Continue reading #52Ancestors ‘Tombstone’
I had been wrestling with a 'Moral Dilemma', within my Family Tree for some considerable time, in fact over 20 years! Whether to share the story and personal notes, that my Grandfather made before he died. So let me give you some background thoughts, before I explain my own situation in detail. When we first … Continue reading My Genealogy Moral Dilemma
This is the sixth in my series of blogs telling the life stories of my 2 x Great Grandparents and next up we have Emma Sophia Lukes. Sometimes we get an instinct, or even a gut feeling about one of our Ancestors, sometimes there is a feeling that goes beyond the paper records and in … Continue reading The Life and Times of Emma Sophia Lukes
Hopefully you enjoyed the first part of the re-organising of my Family History photo collection and if you missed Part 1 it can be found Here So all the research, planning and purchasing of equipment has been completed and we are now left with a large pile of photographs on the table! These need sorting into … Continue reading Organising Your Family History Photographs – Part 2
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”
The Chiddicks Family Tree 