From the outset my family tree application has been completely document-based. I started out with documents like certificates, then added parish records, and recently added relationships taken from less structured documents like wills. Although it quickly became apparent that it … Continue reading
John Phillips‘s parentage had been an early brick wall in my research, as there was no father’s name given on his marriage certificate when he married Frances Vidler in December 1841 (I checked both the GRO and parish versions of … Continue reading
Some of the more unusual occupations I’ve come across in my family tree: Bricklayer (Mary Jackson) Higgler (Samuel Burchett) Straw Platter [sic] (Emma Camp) one of his Ma[jes]t[ie]s most honorable Privy Councell (Sir Julius Ceaser) Tinman (Charles Vie) Chicken Gatherer … Continue reading
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There’s currently an amazing web application online, called Colourise.sg, which adds colour to old black-and-white photos. Unsurprisingly it wasn’t able to do much with older or poorer quality photos from my site, but I think the results below are quite … Continue reading
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a particularly frustrating time trying to take my Vinten line back further than the baptism of my 4x-great-grandfather William and his brother James, sons of William and Racheal [sic], in Orpington in 1804. … Continue reading
My great-great-great-great-grandparents Thomas Upton and his wife Sarah had children baptised in Bromley in Kent in the 1820s and 1830s but for a long time couldn’t find a marriage which I was confident was theirs. The only likely one I … Continue reading
My system of Tentative Identifications is fine when there are two or three individuals involved, but in the case of John Shorter there are five! So rather than create a complicated network of links, I’ve listed below a selection of … Continue reading
Delighted to discover that there have been some really useful changes to the GRO’s certificate ordering service. It now has its own searchable birth and death indexes (you need to be logged in with your usual certificate-ordering details). What’s got … Continue reading
Back in 2011 I blogged about the difficulties I was having in tracing the backgrounds of David Dear and Margaret Perrow. Today I have updated my website with some relevant documents, so I thought it was time to post an … Continue reading
As mentioned in my previous post The Drages of Barkway, earlier this year I found out that my 5xgreat-grandfather was John Camp, who in 1799 was living in the hamlet of Newsells near Barkway in Hertfordshire. However, tracing his branch … Continue reading
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