Has it really been eight years? I plead ill health (including a heart transplant) and other projects. Stalbridge Weston Manor looks at the history of a small Dorset manor, and Lichfield Memorial at the First World War fallen of that small English city.
It’s been a while, but I’ve finally published a version of the tree I’ve spent the last couple of years reviewing and improving. Some people have vanished, some people have appeared, and inevitably there’s still work to do on it.
It’s a very satisfying feeling when you break down a brick wall… even if all this one took was 14 years of effort and finally and belatedly, the application of the FAN principle.
I’ve been doing some research over the past few months that makes extensive use of the new indices recently published by the GRO of their birth and death registers for England and Wales.
Anyone who has been researching their family history for any length of time will recognise the problem: you find a woman in a census with her parents but after that she falls completely out of sight.
It’s easy enough to decide what information to publish about living people (clue: none) but what should I record in my family history database?
My website has needed an update for a very long time, and I’ve finally got around to it — or to starting it, at least.