Branches… What’s in the Tree? 9 Jun 202322 Jul 2023 Within your family tree, you should have at least two people for starters. I have said two people but some may say three! Note you have to make allowances for…
Ancestors… Scottish Naming Conventions. 26 May 202322 Jul 2023 When looking at Scottish records, you will come across some interesting names. You would have seen this in my blog “Adding Context” published on 7 February 2023. I use this…
Ancestors… Names. 5 May 202318 Apr 2023 What’s in a name? We all have one. How we got our name can be interesting or even boring! Are you named after your mother or father or is it…
Ancestors… Who Am I? Or is it Who I am! (Part Two). 7 Apr 202311 Mar 2023 My Make Up. Who I am? My English ancestors mostly came from East Anglia – the region loosely covers Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. To get the bigger picture (Ah,…
Ancestors… Who Am I? Or is it Who I am! (Part One). 31 Mar 202311 Mar 2023 Moving on from a previous blog, “Emotional Being”… (published 24 Feb 2023) Who Am I? I was born in the mid-1950s – Those who enjoy labels and slotting people into…
Ancestors… Making Discoveries. 17 Feb 202316 Feb 2023 Okay, what about new discoveries from old content. This occurs when you ask questions, even if they are to yourself. EXAMPLES. Two examples: One set of my 2nd great-grandparents travelled…
Ancestors… Adding Context – to your ancestors. 7 Feb 2023 What does context mean? From Oxford languages, context means… “the circumstances that form the setting of an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully…
Ancestors… A New Year Dawns… 26 Jan 202327 Jan 2023 Where am I at? The background story… I have been researching my ancestors since the late 1970s. I would think it is around 1977/78. My grandfather (on my father’s side)…