Today's prompt for #GenealogyPhotoADay is "family" and this image epitomizes family for me in more than one way.
It is a picture of the Holt family of Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island and consists of Thomas Andrew Holt with his wife Mary Ann Batters and their eleven children but it is also a symbol of two family trees joining together.
Mary Ann Batters was my 3rd Great Aunt born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, a branch of my Batters family that emigrated to the US in the 1880s.
Her husband Thomas was the 3rd Great Uncle of a family friend Richard Jones whose family tree merges with mine at his Great Great Grandmother Harriet Holt, sister to Thomas Andrew Holt.
I love it when friends become family.
#familyhistory #genealogy #familyconnections #twotreescombine

"Inspiration" is the theme of the day for #GenealogyPhotoADay. My family are my inspiration and the reason behind who, why and everything I am. This is my favourite photo of my 3 "babies" who along with my husband are my world. #familyhistory #genealogy #familiesareeverything #thereasonIam #myuniverse

Today's theme for #GenealogyPhotoADay is "research".
I am sharing a sneaky hint as to where my research has taken me this week.
I intend writing a full blog post disclosing full details of this research and the people involved this week so this is all you are getting for now but for all my family who follow it does involve a family connection to a household name.
#familyhistory #genealogy #atouchoffrost #beingdeliberatelyvague

The prompt for #GenealogyPhotoADay today is "food".
I really don't know the reason why and I don't know if anyone else is the same but it seems a thing with our family to want to document the food table for any family celebration we hold so I have stacks of pictures amassed over the years of tables of food from kids birthday parties, weddings, etc.
Even when we go out together for a meal somewhere, we take pictures of our meal before we eat it - it is quite bizarre really!
This is a picture of friends putting together the buffet table for mum and dad's golden wedding anniversary celebrations in 2013 - no need to get caterers in when you have such good friends!
#familyhistory #genealogy #celebratoryfood #goodfriends

The theme for #GenealogyPhotoADay today is "occupation". This is a picture of Violet Brumby Jackson, daughter of George Henry Jackson and Kate Keziah Brumby. She was my 2nd cousin twice removed on my maternal line. I'll give you 3 guesses what her job was 🤔 With thanks to Chris Brown (Great Nephew to Violet) for sharing this image of his Great Aunt with me. I love what can be discovered when we collaborate. #familyhistory #genealogy #brumbyfamily #lollipopladies

Today's theme for #GenealogyPhotoADay is "green" and I thought to share this today as a reminder that family history is all about recording our own personal history too.
We need to ensure the next generation knows all about our story so we can truly be the bridge between them and their ancestors.
This is me in my first year at high school, aged 11.
Our uniform was bottle green and grey and I hated it.
I went to an all girls school and I loved it.
School was the best time of my life but I hated the uniform 🤢
#genealogy #familyhistory #personalhistory #writeyourstory #makesureyouareremembered

The theme for today's #GenealogyPhotoADay is "building". This is a picture of Tasma Studios found in an advert promoting the photography business owned by my 3rd cousin 3 times removed on my mother's side of the family tree. His name was William Henry Bursle born 26 Jun 1862 in Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia. The article was published in Newtown Diamond Jubilee 1862-1922 Souvenir Magazine. Mr Bursle had a reputation for being an outstanding photographer in his day. I don't know who the women are pictured in the shop window but it was a family run business and William had several daughters so they may be family too. #familyhistory #genealogy #photography #australianancestry

Today's prompt for #GenealogyPhotoADay is "map".
This last few weeks has seen me doing a lot of research around one man - Alfred Broughton, 1860-1924.
He was my Great Great Grandmother's second husband whom she married following the death of my Great Great Grandfather Edward Edwards, and has been a devil to research.
I have had to be so careful with him and purchase quite a few certificates to ensure I was tracing the right man as there were a couple of Broughton families who did that common thing of giving all their children the same names so it was really easy to confuse.
He lived and died at 13 Hill Street in Ashton-under-Lyne which is highlighted on the map in the image.
A surprising discovery came this week in that he had married for a third time after my Great Great Grandma had passed away when he was 60 and fathered a child for the first time before passing away himself at age 63.
Hill Street was central to his life in an interesting way.
He was living at 9 Hill Street when his first wife died before marrying my Great Great Grandmother and moving to No. 13.
His third wife prior to marriage was living at his former home, No. 9 and more than likely had moved in there when he moved out!
The old map shows there were lots of residential homes in the area at one time but interestingly now I live a stone's throw away in an area just off this map and all the old houses are gone and have been replaced by industrial units or more modern housing and I regularly walk past the "ghost" of their house to do my shopping.
The image has come courtesy of old-maps.co.uk at https://u.whatwaslostisfound.co.uk/8 and shows Ashton-under-Lyne in 1910 before the street layout was changed.
#familyhistory #genealogy #troublesomeancestors #worththeeffort

The prompt for day 10 of #GenealogyPhotoADay is "flower" and I am coming bang up to date with a modern day family history story.
Last year I had the pleasure of visiting the USA with my mother and we visited quite a few Temples belonging to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints taking some images of their beautifully maintained flower beds because they reminded us of my sister who from being a young girl has always adored flowers.
She would walk to school every day with our mum and on passing any flower beds would stop to admire and ask the names of every flower.
Mum tells us she would have to knock on doors to ask the occupants the names of any flowers she didn't know in order to satisfy my sister's need to know.
It is hard to walk past any flower display now without thinking of my sister.
#familyhistory #theearthlaughsinflowers #sisterlove