My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. P is for Parish Registers Parish registers are generally regarded as the registers of baptisms, banns and sometimes burials that the churches recorded in the years before civil registration commenced in your … More P is for Parish registers and Parish chests
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. N is for Newspapers Once upon a time, in those dark, pre-digital days, I wore my eyes out looking at microfilm after microfilm of newspapers like all good family historians. Searching them … More N is for NEWSPAPERS
My AtoZ 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. We’ll have short meander into M as it ties in so well with the previous post. M is for MAPS Many of us just love browsing maps for the sheer pleasure of … More M is Maps and Microfilms
My A2Z 2016 theme is how to pursue an interest in family history/genealogy – I’d love you to join me on the journey. L is for LOCAL HISTORY This is a snapshot view because I want to focus on libraries. What is local history and why does it matter to your family research? Put simply, … More L is for Libraries and Local History
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
Family history across the seas 