I’ve recently signed up to a new service, Walk My Past, run by Abbie Allen from South Australia. It offers genealogical help to people from all over the world – you can ask for help and/or sign up as a Genie so you can help others. I’ve signed up as a Genie – I’m always interested in other people’s research and it keeps my hand … Continue reading Walk My Past
There are a couple of websites that have set out to document burials and graves in cemeteries worldwide and make them searchable online. I’ve been a member of both of them for a good while, but haven’t ever contributed or used them extensively. I went into Nottingham the other week for a talk at the archives, so I took the opportunity to go a bit … Continue reading A Cemetery Visit ….
It’s not easy to find your ancestors on Ancestry or Find My Past if their names have been mistranscribed from the records. Here’s a couple of examples from my family tree: So searching for a surname in all these cases didn’t find the family I was looking for. But there are ways round this if your searches have … Continue reading Tuesday’s Tip – How To Find Your Ancestors
As a subscriber to Find My Past I regularly receive targeted offers from them. A recent one was the offer of a free infographic based on my family research so far. It was very simple to use. I generated a gedcom file from my Roots Magic database and uploaded it to Twile, using their easy-to-follow instructions. A short while later I received an email with a … Continue reading Tuesday’s Tip – Summarising Your Data Twile & Infographics
I ordered a family tree chart from My History some time ago & am spending some of the Bank Holiday weekend filling it in. What struck me almost straight away is the number of gaps in it. I’ve been researching my family for some years & had expected the chart to reflect this, but what it shows is the amount of time I’ve spent filling … Continue reading Tuesday’s Tip – Filling In The Gaps
Back in September last year I was delighted to receive an email from ‘Who Do You Think You Are‘ magazine informing me that I’d won a prize draw I’d entered via Twitter. The prize consisted of a year’s subscription to both Find My Past and Lives of the First World War. Since then I’ve taken full advantage of the Find My Past site, checking information and finding … Continue reading Military Monday – Lives of the First World War
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