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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Advent Calendar Day 25 – Merry Christmas!
The final day of the Blog’s Calendar brings you wordpress – a site which enables you to create your very own website. Wordpress is, in my opinion, the easiest site to use if you’ve never created a website before: you … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 24
Almost Christmas: and today’s Advent Calendar link to Tribal Pages will enable to you to create your own online family tree, which you can make private or public, add photographs to, and even list your sources… and it’s well worth … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 23
It’s always exciting to be able to find old photographs of places where our ancestors lived or worked: the excellent site “Images of England”, which has photographs of all listed buildings at the turn of the 21st century, is a … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 22
Yesterday the Blog brought you a link to the Plantagenet Roll: today’s link, in similar vein, is to Cracroft’s Peerage – a free site listing all baronetcies and peerages created in the British Isles since the thirteenth century: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/
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Advent Calendar Day 21
Only four more sleeps until Christmas – and today the Blog brings you a link to “The Plantagenet Roll”. This contains family trees of the descendants of King Edward III up until 1911 (when the Roll was published), and can … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 20
Ever wondered on what day of the week Great Aunt Maud was married, or on what date Easter fell in 1763? The following link, to a Perpetual Calendar, will work all this out for you: http://www.infoplease.com/calendar.php Please note: this is … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 19
Day 19 of the Advent Calendar brings a link to that most useful of all online catalogues for British genealogy: the National Archive. You can download some documents for very little cost – others you can order copies of. The … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 18
Yesterday’s Advent Calendar goodie linked us to lists of Australian transportees: today’s, in a similar vein, links to the Old Bailey records website, which contains details of cases heard between 1674 and 1913. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
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Advent Calendar Day 17
Today the Blog brings you two sites which are useful for tracing ancestors who were unfortunate enough to be transported to Australia: http://www.convictrecords.com.au/ http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/family-history/convicts
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Advent Calendar Day 16
Have you a photograph of a military ancestor, and want to identify his cap badge or medals, or to buy a replica? Browsing these sites may help you: Cap Badges: http://www.britishbadge.co.uk/index.php Military Medals: http://www.hillmilitarymedals.co.uk/ http://www.worcmedals.com/
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