Are you stuck on a difficult family history research problem? Take a look at these 10 strategies to see if one (or more) of them can help you break through your genealogy brick wall!
#genealogy #FamilyHistory #BrickWalls
https://www.thefamilyheart.com/best-strategies-brick-wall-ancestors/
9 Feb. I realised this evening that I've never lived in a house with central heating. Growing up we had an open fire and a 2-bar electric heater. Then I lived in an art deco 1930s unrenovated house, a stone cottage with corrugated iron roof, a 200 yr old stone cottage with no running water inside, and now a mobile home as I plan the renovation of the old house. I don't think my life is too different from my ancestors! Except for electricity 😊
8 Feb. A late toot tonight! I was engrossed in the final book in the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths. Great read as always. Not genealogy, but some interesting history and myths from Norfolk, where my surname seems to have its origins. I must visit one day.
7 Feb. Loving the way I can search by address in the England censuses on Find My Past. Great for a quick view of surnames and birthplaces on a street. Currently exploring the poorer parts of Marylebone, London and cross-checking against Booth's poverty map (and notebooks). Plus I found a draft book on architecture (UCL, Bartlett School) that includes the old street names and what they were replaced by e.g. Paradise St -> Moxon St. Fascinating!
6 Feb. No genealogy today. It's a holiday here in Ireland this year so I put my feet up and started re-reading the 14th Elly Griffiths / Ruth Galloway novel in preparation for reading the 15th and final one in the series. No doubt I'll binge read all 15 again this year. Anyone else re-read books?
5 Feb. Did some more research for my course assignment, while the laptop battery lasted! There was a poor census image on Ancestry which had led to a mistranscribed first name. I searched for the same record on FMP and found same first name mistranscription but also a totally amazing mistranscription of the surname. Only found the family by using first name of sibling, date and place and ignoring surname totally. Creative searching!
4 Feb. Plans to complete my assignments today somewhat scuppered by leaving the laptop power cord in Dublin. I am now in Leitrim. Oh well. Resorting to old tech and continuing to read Helen Osborn's book on essential genealogy research methods. I do have about 4 hours battery life on the laptop so will do a bit tomorrow, will need to be organised and not waste time / battery power, which fits well with the objectives of the course I'm doing.
This cartoon is funny... 😄
so why am I crying? 😢
#Extinction #ClimateCrisis
SOURCE -- https://shopdinosaur.com/
Spending the morning with double the amount of coffee and updating account details on the handful of websites I used Twitter to log in to avoid losing access to them after the #TwitterAPI free access revoking unfolds. ✌️😐
Btw it's worth checking what sites/apps you've connected to Twitter by going to the main menu, clicking More >> Settings and Support >> Settings and Privacy >>Security and account access >> Apps & Sessions >> Connected Apps.
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