Ancestors… Beyond 101. 24 Oct 202513 Aug 2025 Why go beyond collecting the basics, names, dates and places? In my early days of research, I was interested in adding names to my tree. Online you may have come…
Ancestors… 1855 Scottish Certificate. 12 May 202318 Apr 2023 Death. Cathrine Nicol, my fourth great-grandmother died in 1855 at Newfargie in the parish of Arngask, in the County of Fife. I will be writing more about Catherine later. Excitement.…
Ancestors… Filling the Gaps – Part One. 21 Apr 202316 Apr 2023 In my first blog, “A New Year Dawns” (published 26 January 2023), I mentioned Direct Ancestors and their families – so how do we fill in the gaps? Records. There…
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… How & Why I started? Part Two… 3 Feb 2023 Slow Progress… (continued). As previously mentioned in the previous blog, “How & Why I Started? Part One", my progress was very slow. With limited time and resources available, like many…