For those of us with #FamilyHistory roots in the #BlackCountry this article has started off a cracking read (not yet finished it) with all the usual caveats about what area actually IS the Black Country.
Morning, Toots. I’m continuing to sort through snaps I took of #FamilyHistory photos today, and here’s one for the #Adelaide folks: North Terrace, possibly early 1950s (I’m guessing from the shape of the cars.) #Histodons
Was looking for Jacob's parents but found this juicy gossip instead. Familial relations were as messy in the 1800s as they are today, but Jacob had to use the #newspaper to put Abigail on blast rather than social media. #genealogy#familyhistory
Does anyone know what a hulyer or hulyor is within the context of a 17th-century Lancashire village?
I'm looking at a list of people who took the Protestation in Rivington in 1642. One of them could be my ancestor. His name is John Darbyshier. The other's name is Richard Hulyor. The occupation of both is listed as hulyer or hulyor.
Last week's "Lunch & Learn" presentation featuring the North Carolina State Capitol's project "From Naming to Knowing: Uncovering Slavery at the North Carolina State Capitol" is available to view now at the NC State Archives YouTube channel!
Just found - by chance - a reference to an elusive ancestor who I’d always seen referred to as Edward JOHN or Edward JONES. In this source, he’s “Edward Thomas, otherwise Jones”. 🤯
Top tip: don’t have Welsh ancestors if you can help it. 🤪
Another sad story from the family tree. Edward Fitzpatrick, a cousin of my great grandmother Martha Ann Fitzpatrick, was a painter who worked at Bolton railway station. He was crossing the tracks after work in a blizzard and was killed by a train. 19th December 1909.
Buried in Waste Cemetery Salford.
A blog from Jacquelineage dot com @JTrain ... On the offensiveness and insensitivity exhibited by contributors to #FindAGrave while she has been dealing with the deaths of her parents.
Several of us will agree that Find a Grave are still falling short.
"Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century" tells a multi-generational story of a sprawling family with roots in the city of Salonica/Thessalonica. Salonica was once part of the Ottoman Empire, then part of Greece, and then with World War II the scene of a Nazi annihilation of the large and thriving Jewish community. Just for the story of Solinica, once a great Jewish city, this book is worth reading.
Combining personal letters, full of love, pleas for help, requests for financial assistance, personal arguments, travel plans, and business arrangements, with solid research on the history of Salonica and the destruction of its Jews in the Holocaust, Stein paints an insightful and illuminating picture of a world and its inhabitants across the 20th century. It's a great Jewish story....