Monthly Archives: June 2012

His name was WHAT??

Most books on ‘How to trace your family tree’ will tell you that the more unusual the name, the higher the odds of you being able to trace your ancestry back across the centuries. I beg to differ.  In my … Continue reading

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New additions and a terrifying fact

I’ve added a link to the ‘Useful Websites’ page – www.west-bromwich-photos.co.uk – old photographs of West Bromwich. The page ‘Birth, Marriage, Death’ has been amended, as I forgot to include a vital piece of information (self administered slapped wrist) – until … Continue reading

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Occupations, clustering and updates

I’ve added a few more links on the ‘Useful Websites’ page. Please have a look at the site www.sharehistory.org: this is a sort of wiki page which anyone can add to:  it contains a lot of photographs and other information … Continue reading

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Site redesign!

Perhaps I’m not quite the technophobe I thought I was… I’ve been playing with the site layout, and all the information that I think is useful is now transferred to the pages you can access by the links immediately below … Continue reading

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Quarter Days, Old and New Style Dates and Dating Conventions

This post has now been transferred to the page ‘Dates in Family History’.

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Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Appropriate for this weekend: the photograph below shows Queen Square Wolverhampton at the time of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897.  Barclays Bank (background, left) and St Peter’s Church (far background, right) are still there, A lovely photograph.   … Continue reading

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Dates For The Diary: 10 and 11 June 2013

Tthe annual Wolverhampton History Fair   To be held at Penn United Reformed Church, 333 Penn Road, Wolverhampton, WV4 5QF Friday 10th June 10.00a.m. – 8.00p.m. and Saturday 11th June 9.00a.m. – 4.00p.m. More displays than ever, including: Old Wolverhampton … Continue reading

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