England
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Scenes of England 1919 to 1953
Aug 17
Photographs are wonderful for showing us decades later what our ancestors looked like, how they worked and where they lived. It is not as good as a video or actually being there, but as near perfect as possible. There is now available online a massive collection of aerial photos of the English and surrounding landscapes, taken between 1919 and 1...
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That’s an Occupation?
Aug 1
So many things of an individual’s life can change not only over their own lifetime, but also over a couple generations. Nothing is truer than the change of terms for certain occupations. You can easily come across an occupation on a census document, social security application, pension record or journal and have no idea what that type of job enta...
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1948 London Olympics
Jul 26
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, begin in London, England on July 27 and run to August 12, 2012. British citizens have been in full swing preparing for the thousands of visitors, from participates to the spectators, from across the globe at the Olympics in London. For many people of Great Britain they sti...
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Read a Queen’s Journal
Jun 30
Such a treasury is finding and reading an ancestor’s journal or diary. It is like getting the opportunity to speak to them directly. With a journal they have confined in their writings their deepest thoughts and feelings. One of most well-known historical figures was Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom who ruled from June 1837 until her de...
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Crossing the Border Into Canada
Jun 29
It might be surprising, but you just may have several ancestors who originally lived in Canada, our neighbor to the north, during sometime in their lives. This could have happened in the 18th, 19th or 20th centuries. To assist in learning more about any Canadian ancestors the Ancestry.ca database is making available from now until Monday, July ...
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Why My Ancestors Still Immigrated Even After 1912
May 15
I have long thought about how very brave and determined our ancestors were to continue crossing the Atlantic in the months and years immediately after the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912. When I had acquired the ship manifests on several of my father’s family and when they came to resettle from Lancashire County, England to Essex Count...
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A Blend of Facebook & FamilySearch Sites
May 5
Social networking using a computer, tablet, iphone, etc. is the fastest method to connect with people from around the globe. If you want to link up with people in an ancestral home country, the FamilySearch has made it very easy for you to do so. When doing family history research, you look for surnames, but you also check in depth where a relat...
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Old Maps of the World
Apr 21
As you have collected information on your ancestors, the places (towns, cities, counties, provinces, states and countries) they have lived in over the decades it can become a bit confusing, less of course your have a degree in geography. Most people are usually unfamiliar with most locations outside of any places they have lived in themselves. ...
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Genealogy and History – Interwoven Together
Apr 18
The recent coverage of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic with books, magazine articles, news reports, documentaries and movies has reminded everyone how certain historical events can play such important defining moment in nearly everyone’s lives. Certainly those survivors of the Titanic, the descendants of those who did n...
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The Titanic’s Fateful Night
Apr 14
On April 14, 1912, about 11:40 pm the unsinkable Titanic struck an iceberg and by 2:20 am of the early Monday morning, April 15th, the great luxury ship on its maiden voyage did sink into the icy cold waters of the Atlantic. There were 1,576 people from all walks of life who died that night. Only 710 survivors made it alive to New York ...