I am a Connector! What’s a connector? Isn’t that a bit of pipe that connects one bit of pipe to another bit of pipe? Yes, it could be. But what I do is to connect the present to the past. . . . I’m a Genealogist. Last week I was talking to an old colleague
The theme for International Women’s Day 2023 is #EmbraceEquity This year, I thought I would indulge myself and write about some of the women who helped to shape my life and who, in their own ways, may have contributed to the equity woman enjoy today. The first photo is of my Great Grandmother, Lilian Fisher.
Nextdoor.com is an app where people go for local news, trade recommendations, etc. I joined the one for Emsworth in Hampshire when I moved here just over 18 months ago. It’s been a great way to find out what’s going on nearby, but one particularly unusual post caught my eye, it read “This is a
We’re at Week 6 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks challenge. And this week we’re talking Maps. I’m a visual person and need pictures, sketches, photos and maps to keep me interested, so I use maps a lot in my research. I use them to compare the same places at different times and I
This week I am “Branching Out” beyond parish registers to talk about a couple of record sets that look quite scary but have really helped with my family history research. It did mean going beyond the internet and getting out and about to local Records Offices and The National Archives. It also meant reading documents
The Title of Week 3 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks challenge is “Favourite Photo” – Firstly, there are two photos and I wouldn’t say they are my absolute favourite photo, but I do find them incredible. The first picture was taken around 1900 and the second picture was taken over 100 years later.
Week 2 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks challenge – the prompt for this week is “My Favourite Find.” My favourite find was Francis George Fisher, who was my great-grandmother’s brother. He was the second child born to George Fisher and Susannah Fisher, formerly Pauling in December 1884. My great grandmother Lily was older
I have pieced together the story of Dorothy Fisher with the help of photographs left to me by my grandmother and from memories of her told to me by my lovely cousin Brian, his wife Rosemary, and their son Peter. It has been wonderful to be able to do this because until late 2013 I
Looking back on my personal highlights of 2021 January 2021 – The year started with a sense of anticipation – I was moving house. After 20 years in Surrey I moved to Hampshire, downsizing from my three bed 1980s house to a Victorian Terrace built in the 1880s. February 2021 – After passing the IHGS
Having listened to me go on about the importance of newspapers as a source for family history my friend issued me with a challenge. “Find out as much as you can, about a family, from a newspaper article”. Challenge accepted! I decided to look for something in Surrey and, using the British Newspaper Archives, typed the
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