Mastodawn

chrisjolliffe Jul 24, 2024

Idris 💙Jul 24, 2024

I am not voting for #harris2024 for Joe.
I am not voting for #harris2024 because she is a woman.
I am voting for #harris2024 because I care about
My children
Your children
My neighbors
Single mothers
People of color
The LGBTQ+ community
My country
I am voting for #harris2024 because I am a woman.
And I am not alone.
#VoteBlue2024
#DemocratsInArray

chrisjolliffe Apr 6, 2023

Graham Ward Apr 5, 2023

Many children stop learning #history before the end of their #education. Consequence is they get left in a place with a huge gap to the present day. We need rewrite the #curriculum to teach history backwards. @histodons

chrisjolliffe Mar 27, 2023

Karen Cummings Mar 26, 2023

Why did you start your family tree?

Here’s my story: https://wp.me/p5EKmP-pn

#FamilyTree #WhereDoIComeFrom #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre

chrisjolliffe Mar 27, 2023

GenealCymru Mar 26, 2023

Yet another ancestor with a fighting spirit: Mr. Bircham, the Local Government Inspector, attended the Board of Guardians [in South Wales], and in his address he remarked that some of the Guardians did not converse in English. At the conclusion of the address Mr. Jenkins got up and stated that the members alluded to were a little timid with their English for fear of making mistakes, but that he, Jenkins, hoped that when another Bircham would be appointed, he would be a Welsh Bircham. #Genealogy

chrisjolliffe Mar 1, 2023

Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Feb 28, 2023

I found this taped to the door of the geography department at GWU today and it brought me so much joy. A guide to figuring out when a map was made based on features. Zoom in. It’s amazing.

chrisjolliffe Feb 24, 2023

Julie_Gfamily Feb 23, 2023

The true history of the New Inn pub at Long Buckby Wharf, not the mythical and very wrong version peddled by the pub itself.
#OnePlaceStudies
#FamilyHistory
#Geneadons

https://longbuckbywharf.wordpress.com/2023/02/23/history-of-the-new-inn/

History of the New Inn

The New Inn and Top Lock Cottage. Photo by author 2022. There are many myths about the origins of the New Inn, quite a few perpetuated by the pub itself. It most definitely was not a pub in the 170…

Long Buckby Wharf

chrisjolliffe Feb 13, 2023

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AnneTheWriter Feb 12, 2023

@Scoffin
1/4 Some years back, I was contacted by a man writing an article for a #Numismatics ( #coin and #PaperMoney collecting) magazine. The man had found my #FamilyTree online, and wanted to know if I had any photos for my ancestor, Capt. John Henry Freligh. (I didn't.)

He told me that my #ancestor had printed much of the #currency for the #Confederacy .

I knew Capt. Freligh had been a #steamboat Captain, and had published a newspaper for a short time. And family stories said he was friends with Conf.Pres. Jefferson Davis. I even knew that Capt. Freligh's wife was a spy for the South (smuggling information & medicine in the buttons of her dress, across enemy lines).

But I was surprised that out of all those stories, the one that had been lost in our #OralHistory was that he was entrusted with printing the paper money for the South! (He was half of "Freligh & Hutton" on the images below.)

#Genealogy #Genealogist #History
#CivilWar #CivilWarHistory

chrisjolliffe Feb 12, 2023

Help! I’m on a Masters placement at an archive. Nothing has been catalogued. I’ve been asked to make a start. Where do I start? No funds. Only Excel. Possibly Modes in the future. There’s a volunteer who has put some docs in date order & filled a filing cabinet. There are 3 more cabinets of stuff! #historians #archivist #historydons #archives #history

chrisjolliffe Feb 1, 2023

Booksonspain Jan 25, 2023

I #blogged! "Putting on the local history goggles...", a reflection on visiting the site of some lost cottages in our local park.
https://oldnallend.uk/2023/01/25/putting-on-the-local-history-goggles-or-in-search-of-two-lost-cottages/

#OnePlaceWednesday #OldnallEnd #Berkswell #Warwickshire #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory

“Putting on the Local History Goggles,” or, in search of two lost cottages

Oldnall End One Place Study

chrisjolliffe Jan 31, 2023

Christine McCloud Jan 31, 2023

I am really proud of me right now. I just finished untangling a certain family on my tree, figuring out who was who & where they fit in amongst conflicting records. I’m 97% sure I got it right, some details notwithstanding. I may end up blogging about it. Thank you, Microsoft Excel! #genealogy

History of the New Inn

&#8220;Putting on the Local History Goggles,&#8221; or, in search of two lost&nbsp;cottages

“Putting on the Local History Goggles,” or, in search of two lost cottages