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kate wrote a new post, Tracing the history of a house, on the site Kate's Family Tree 3 years, 11 months ago
A useful tip from the Wolverhampton Family History Facebook group:
“Did you know you can also search UK census records by address on Find My Past? Just choose the census year from the A – Z, choose Address S […]
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kate wrote a new post, From the family album, on the site Kate's Family Tree 6 years, 3 months ago
My grandparents, Frank Charles Spicer (1901 – 1963) and Annie Griffiths (1900 – 2000) on their wedding day – 10 November 1924. And the cake.
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kate wrote a new post, The widow's third, Borough English and Shakespeare's bed, on the site Kate's Family Tree 6 years, 3 months ago
I’ve been looking at old wills this week, and thought I’d share a few thoughts with you.
We often think when we can’t find a will “Oh, they can’t have had much to leave.” But this isn’t always the […]
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kate wrote a new post, Mea Culpa, on the site Kate's Family Tree 6 years, 4 months ago
The Blog and I return, somewhat shamefaced in the knowledge that we haven’t updated for well over a year. This is, in part, due to yet another annus horribilis – the details of which I shall not bore you with. H […]
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kate wrote a new post, FutureLearn Course: Tracing Your Family Tree Week 5, on the site Kate's Family Tree 7 years, 7 months ago
Week 5 of the course returned to sources, and considered how local and general histories can flesh out your family tree.
As followers of this blog are only too well aware, this is something that I always […]
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kate wrote a new post, Futurelearn Course: Tracing Your Family Tree Week 4, on the site Kate's Family Tree 7 years, 7 months ago
Week Four of the course considered the Genealogical Standard of Proof and also DNA testing.
The Standard of Proof is important – in fact I wrote a page about this some time ago – and I thought that this was […]
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kate wrote a new post, FutureLearn Course: Tracing Your Family Tree – Week Three, on the site Kate's Family Tree 7 years, 8 months ago
So – week 3 of the course is down and dusted.
This week the course tackled major sources – church, civil and religious records, looked at the types of records that might be held in physical archives and […]
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kate wrote a new post, FutureLearn Course: Researching Your Family Tree – Week Two, on the site Kate's Family Tree 7 years, 8 months ago
This week the course addressed ‘Effective Search Techniques’, without first addressing what we might be researching, or indeed why.
This began by advising the creation of a timeline of events, creating a family […]
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kate wrote a new post, FutureLearn Course: Researching Your Family Tree – Week One., on the site Kate's Family Tree 7 years, 8 months ago
I mentioned on 3rd February that I’d signed up on the FutureLearn online course “Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree”, and that I’d give weekly updates and comments on the course.
So – here we are at the […]
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kate wrote a new post, On not giving up, on the site Kate's Family Tree 7 years, 8 months ago
Only last night I managed to solve a problem that had been bugging me for years. My grandmother had told me that a relation of hers (and she didn’t know the name) had kept a farm on Goldthorn Hill, about half a […]
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kate wrote a new post, Apologies – and a free online course, on the site Kate's Family Tree 7 years, 10 months ago
A Grovelling Apology
Apologies for the radio silence over the last twelve months. It really has been a dreadful year for me, in which I’ve had very little time at all. However, things should have calmed down by […]
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kate wrote a new post, Wills & Probate, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 8 months ago
Since my last post, I’ve been looking into the government’s much-vaunted wills & probate site at www.gov.uk/search-will-probate.
Wills can prove useful in tracing our ancestors, or finding out about their lives […]
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kate wrote a new post, Battling with Technology…, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 10 months ago
Lord only knows I’m not a technophobe, but I must admit defeat when it comes to using our new Tablet. I mean, my fingers are hardly big and clunky, but when it comes to selecting one from a list of links, I’ve got […]
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kate wrote a new post, Random Jottings: The Benefits of Being a Hoarder, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 10 months ago
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kate wrote a new post, Advent Calendar Day 25 – Merry Christmas!, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 11 months ago
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kate wrote a new post, Advent Calendar Day 24, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 11 months ago
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kate wrote a new post, Advent Calendar Day 23, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 11 months ago
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kate wrote a new post, Advent Calendar Day 22, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 11 months ago
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kate wrote a new post, Advent Calendar Day 21, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 11 months ago
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kate wrote a new post, Advent Calendar Day 20, on the site Kate's Family Tree 8 years, 11 months ago
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