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Advent Calendar Day 9
Day 9 of the Advent Calendar looks at Trade Directories. These can tell us a great deal about our ancestors’ trades and the areas in which they lived. You can find Trade Directories in Local Records Offices and Archives, and … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 8
Today’s Advent Calendar gift is for that wonderful site GENUKI – a virtual reference library of information for the United Kingdom and Ireland. Well worth bookmarking. www.genuki.org.uk
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Advent Calendar Day 7
Many of us have ancestors who lived and worked in London in the nineteenth century, and many of these ancestors were very poor indeed. In 1886, the philanthropist Charles Booth began a study of London’s poor, which was to culminate … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 6
Day 6 of the Advent Calendar brings you Rootschat: the UK’s largest free online genealogy forum, with members willing to help with research, decipher old handwriting or words, restore photographs and much more: http://www.rootschat.com
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Advent Calendar Day 5
Today’s Advent Calendar free site may be of interest to anyone piecing together information about tracing ancestors who fought in the First World War: The Long, Long Trail. This site has information about regiments, battles, army life, and even Army … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar Day 4
Welsh genealogy can be difficult – http://www.welshgenealogy.net/ has many useful hints and tips, including a translation page for headstone inscriptions.
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Advent Calendar Day Three
Irish family history is difficult – but you may find this site useful: http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/
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Advent Calendar: Day 2
Today’s the Advent Calendar brings you: http://www.findagrave.com/ As with all sites, Find A Grave does not give 100% coverage – but it does contain over 121 million grave records, from all around the world. I find it useful for … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar: Day One
So, what has The Blog for you today? http://www.lostcousins.com Lost Cousins is an excellent website, which you can register with for free. Enter the details of your relatives from selected censuses, complete with the census reference, and the site will … Continue reading
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The Blog’s Advent Calender for 2014
Starting from tomorrow, the Blog will be updated every day until 25 December: no little doors to open or chocolate, but each day there will be a link to a source you may find useful. Happy Advent!
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