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family historian, author, digital archivist, podcaster, and defender of #Cambridgeshire. #Genealogy addict. Host of The Family Histories Podcast (@familyhistoriespodcast.com) https://www.familytreeuk.co.uk
My #OnePlaceWednesday update. Still waiting for the last 6 of the wills ordered last year for 2 of my #OnePlaceStudies (3 each for Fawsley & Waters Upton). Following Ancestry’s addition of #Shropshire electoral registers I’ve been busy transcribing, and adding new pages to my Waters Upton website.
Our next #FamilyHistory Show will be in St Ives, Cambridgeshire on Saturday 18th April 2026. There will be stallholders, talks, helpdesks and lots of people to talk to and help with research. Book now! www.fhf-reallyuseful.com
Welcome to “the future”.
See you there!
The six-year-old has informed me that they were learning about kings and queens yesterday and there was a song.
A song, I asked?
Inevitably, some of @gregjenner.bsky.social's best (and certainly catchiest), work.
Watch @gwilymsmum.bsky.social 's thoughtful story about a woman following her husband to war. An offering for #InternationalWomensDay sit back and enjoy. www.fewforgottenwomen.com/iwd26
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Did you know that there are three kinds of DNA? Genetic genealogy expert Debbie Kennett explains the difference between autosomal DNA, Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA - and how they can help your family history research 🧬
I’ve just had a spooky moment with some 1891 Census records. Pleased to see some clear, well-formed handwriting for a change, it suddenly dawned on me that I’d seen this hand before. I checked the first page of the section and there it was: Mr H’s GGF was the enumerator! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
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They borrowed those? 🤔
Amazing!
The Bury Free Press has plenty of photos of me as a child winning competitions.
Check out our Free Online Resources page for #FamilyHistory, including the Manorial Documents Register. www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/free-online-...
Can you remember what you won?
I’d definitely love to hear that story!
Here’s my write up from a few years back historyrepeating.org.uk/2014/10/31/i...
Thrilled to unexpectedly hear someone tell the story of my very likely relative, Jeremiah Newell in a talk, who was said to haunt Potters Lane, Ely. I told them later about him 👻 #FamilyHistory #ancestryhour
Event poster. Programme includes 2-3pm Storytelling with Peterborough Women’s Group in the George Room
On 7th March, International Woman’s Day, the @pborowomenshist.bsky.social group will at Peterborough Museum talking about the women who made the city
Same. We’ll never fix all the trees out there, so I focus on making mine the best I can, with plenty of citations.
Victorian law: women were incubators.
Before 1839: Fathers had ABSOLUTE custody rights. Mothers had NONE.
Children belonged to him.
Small reforms 1839 & 1873:
→ Mothers could petition
→ BUT only if they proved 'moral fitness'
→ Fathers still presumed fit
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#VictorianHistory
CW: Victorian medical misogyny
Diagnosis for disobedient women: hysteria.
'Treatment': forced institutionalisation, sedation, loss of rights.
When Mary pursued divorce, she risked 'mad' label.
Victorian medicine pathologised resistance.
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#VictorianHistory
I have two properly documented 4C1R who are attending #RootsTech. Almost all the other suggested connections are based on errors in the big tree.
Most of mine are useless to me bc they are through my great-grandmother’s adoptive parents and not her birth family. It’s a big reason I find FamilySearch’s tree so frustrating to deal with. I have the same issue with my paternal grandmother whose bio-dad I indentified.
4C1R is my closest too Of my 298 many are 'imaginative' at best. The split between my grandparents is v uneven 8 157 1 156 which doesn't add up to the total!!!🤷♀️
Yes, I’ve seen a lot are via the first husband of my 2x Gt Grandmother. The husband *might* have been my 2x Gt Grandfather, but I have no evidence yet. Also, a bit of spot checking last night found some incorrect 3x Gt Grandparents.
It’s fun, but not necessary fact
Yes. I’ve got loads through some fictional realities too
Obituaries are either a genealogical goldmines or “Mr. Smith died some time ago, survived by relatives” and that’s it. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
My closest related #RootsTech attendees are two 3rd Cousins, 1x Removed. One based in Canada, the other in the UK.
I’ve been transcribing the 1841 census for my #oneplacestudy of Haverfordwest in Wales. Looking at Barn Street in St. Martin’s Parish where my 3x great grandmother Mary Taylor lived. #oneplacewednesday @oneplacestudies.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/haverfor...
