I was going to write about this subject on my other blog but, on reflection, it fits better here. "There have been refugees coming to this country for as long as records have been kept: Huguenots, Jews, French Catholics, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Ugandan Asians... If you can't find any in your family you're probably not … Continue reading Bloggers Unite: Because everybody has the right to know where their family is
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Because backing up is (not) hard to do
Jasia at the Creative Gene highlights the importance of backing up your blog to guard against losing all your posts should anything untoward happen. I admit, I'm as guilty as the next person of forgetting to do this, but it is important not just because of the risk of your blog being hacked, but also … Continue reading Because backing up is (not) hard to do
Dictionary of Old Occupations
If you discovered your great, great grandfather was a fripperer, would you know what he did for a living? What about a quarrel picker? Or a ganneker? Many old occupations have faded into oblivion while others are still in existence but have very different titles. You don't need to scratch your head and wonder what … Continue reading Dictionary of Old Occupations
Finding ancestors who went to the US.
It's been a while since I posted here. My apologies for that. My only excuse is that summer seems to have arrived in the UK so I'm enjoying it while I can - it could all go away as quickly as it arrived. I'm just popping in to share the url of a site which … Continue reading Finding ancestors who went to the US.
My software ate my ancestors
Actually, it turned my gedcom into a complete mess, but that isn't such a snappy headline. Being serious, I downloaded a new programme, which seemed to work very well, only to discover it did some really odd things to the data. Not content with turning my notes into some kind of computer language - great … Continue reading My software ate my ancestors
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