My travels and family history help you reveal yours.
AtoZChallenge2017:My posts for the annual A to Z blogging challenge that takes place in April each year. This is for the 2017 challenge. It is 26 posts based on a theme. Each post then follows the next letter in the alphabet.
Hashtag: #atozchallenge
M for Map – Charles Booth Poverty Maps Living in Bermondsey, south of the Thames River in the late 1800’s London I had assumed my Shepherd ancestors were very poor. However according to the Charles Read More …
L for Landscape. This landscape scene is about 200 metres from my great grand fathers home in Falmouth, Cornwall. I wrote about this trip to Falmouth in Cornwall in a post called Visiting Your Ancestral Read More …
The Changing Fashion of Kitchen Labels I thought how kitchen labels have changed over the years when thinking about the #GenealogyPhotoADay prompt Kitchen. I visited Trove to see what I could find in their digitised Read More …
J for Jewerly (USA version) or Jewellery (English version). Interesting that the spelling of words between the USA and England differ. Here in Australia we have a bias to the English versions but this is Read More …
TravelGenee’s Best 9 on Instagram. I is for Instagram At the beginning of 2017 I check out my Best 9 on Instagram for the previous year, 2016. The nine top liked posts were very representative Read More …
The Name of the Father is Missing! Collecting vital records like birth certificates is something one does to find out more information if you are addicted to the hobby: family history. H for Hobby: Family Read More …
G for Jenni & Thomas wearing “Glasses”. Earlier in 2017 I was at RootsTech, the biggest genealogy/ family history conference on earth. It’s held annually at Salt Lake City in the USA. One social event Read More …