Don’t worry this blog isn’t going to be all event notifications. I love webinars because you can participate from the comfort of your own home and you can be involved as much or as little as you would like and the Legacy Family Tree ones are free. I did several of the Legacy Family Tree … [Read more…]
Over the last few years I’ve only written a few blog posts. I don’t want to give up blogging altogether but I need to work out a way to make it fit into my current life and work habits. I’ve noticed that since I’ve been mostly working on other people’s family trees my blogging has … [Read more…]
I visited my Mum yesterday and we were reminiscing about shops in Gawler St, Mount Barker, South Australia near where I grew up. Mum mentioned something about sewing and I had an instant flashback to walking past an open door in Gawler St as a child and hearing the loud clattering of many sewing machines … [Read more…]
William Harding Birchall sits on a distant branch of my family tree. We aren’t blood relatives however when one of his descendants contacted me with a question my interest was piqued. The Birchalls were Quakers and these are the first Quaker records I have come across in my research. This marriage record is very hard … [Read more…]
I have been inspired by Jill aka GeniAus and Alex at Family Tree Frog to write about what genealogy related things I’ve been up to. Early in the month I started a new 6 generation pedigree tree for a customer. These are some of the things I have found out so far: one ancestor had … [Read more…]
The Pentrich Revolution Jeremiah Brandreth, William Turner and Isaac Ludlam were considered the revolution ring leaders and labelled the Pentrich Three. With over 500 men they set out to march on London to petition the King to better workers’ rights. Jeremiah Brandreth, or the `Nottingham Captain’, was to actually lead the rebellion. Despite some rather … [Read more…]