My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. O is for OCCUPATIONS Where, how and what we work at can be an important part of our identity and certainly takes up a lot of our waking hours. How much more … More O is for Occupations and One Place Studies
My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. K is for KIRK SESSIONS One of the great things about the Church of Scotland is their obsession with right living, sin, and public confession. They had a great skill of getting … More K is for Kirk Sessions and Kiva
My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. J is for Journals Journals, letters, diaries…how we wish for such genealogical gold! Sadly most of us aren’t lucky in that regard. Having said that all is not lost. Once again, ask … More J is for Journals
My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. I is for Interviews aka Oral History If there’s one thing you will repeatedly hear among family historians, it’s the wish that they’d asked more questions of their immediate ancestors – parents … More I is for Interviews and Immigration
This year’s A to Z Challenge hosts a plethora of blogs being written on a variety of topics. It’s a couple of years since I joined the challenge so I was pleased to discover how many of my genimates (and a few new ones) are participating. In case you haven’t tracked them all down yet, … More Sunday Summary – A to Z
My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. H is for History Our ancestors, like us, lived within the historical context of the time. We need to consider what forces were affecting their lives such as wars, famine, drought, flood, … More H is for History, Hospital Records and your Health inheritance
My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. G is for GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES In the online world within which we live and often research these days, it’s easy to think we don’t need anything more than the genealogical programs offered … More G is for Genealogical Societies & the genealogical community
F is for FAMILY Yes, family is what we’re all about, so approaching our families first seems an obvious starting point. Unfortunately, some people have no living relatives, others are “blessed” with kin who closely resemble clams. However, if you cast your net widely enough and approach extended kin as well as close kin, you … More F is for Family
E is for EDUCATION Yes, we can and should see what we can learn about our ancestors’ education, using school records, old school annuals, school administrative books and enrolment registers. Once again you can learn unexpected these about ancestral families such as their participation in school committees, their involvement in establishing a school or how … More E is for Education, Ethics & Electoral Rolls
D is for DIGITISATION I think of Digitisation as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Good? It’s readily accessible through personal subscription or library access, so long as you have internet access. You can be living remotely from your place of interest and yet still be able to do research (well at least … More D is for Digitisation and DNA
Family history across the seas 