We’ll be at Kempton Park this Saturday (4th October) for The Family History Show. Visit our stand to find out more about the society, ask our volunteers for help with your research, or just stop by to say hello! thefamilyhistoryshow.com/london/ #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan

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It was great to welcome back members of the Cardiff and Vale Branch of Glamorgan Family History Society to the Archives today. This month we looked at records relating to shops and shopping.

#OnThisDay in 1935 the heroic Welsh journalist Gareth Jones was murdered just a day before his 30th birthday. He exposed the atrocities of the Holodomor famine in the #Ukraine. How we could do with journalists like him today! A piece I wrote a while back: nation.cymru/culture/hitl...

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. #SummerSolstice British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

So amazing to be holding my book at last ❤️🥲❤️

this is true at times

Found a fake record on Ancestry (AI strikes again?). It's based on an 1855 Scottish death register entry, but the "deceased" is actually one of the listed living children, and there seems to be a 'death record' for everyone mentioned on the original 😡 #genealogy #ScottishGenealogy #GenHour

Absolutely brilliant news. It was so important that the govt organised British re-entry to Horizon: UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Has it really been only ten years?

"This feature has become very popular among people who have no imagination" is perhaps one of the best and most damning things you can say about people who use gen-AI to regurgitate artbarf as if it's anything other than digital particleboard.

People pushing unwanted tech like AI on the public today really conveniently forget about and gloss over the times in history when forced tech pushes failed miserably

In withering fairness to many of our modern ill-fitting technology pushers, they have an absolutely garbage knowledge of history, as it wasn't a subject they ever put any effort into, so there was nothing to forget, and no lessons learned to avoid. It's why crypto sped run scams from the 1800s.

Join us at the ARC in Bridgend on Saturday 5th April to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Short talks: History and Future of the Society, Glamorgan Archives Coal Mining Exhibition, Life in the Garw Valley. There will also be 50th anniversary cake! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan #Bridgend

Thank you, dioch, to those members that attended this afternoon's AGM. Apologies that we had to postpone the talk due to the last minute unavailability of our speaker. #GlamorganFHS

We have been advising our volunteers about thus increase in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family Plans with no.optipn to opt out of AI Copilot add in together with additional monthly charges if you use Copilot more than a certain amount!

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

Continuing our recent time in #Wales: we're off to #Cardiff on Saturday 15 Feb, to talk to the Welsh Railways Research Circle: 'Asking for trouble’? The Railway Work, Life & Death project & railway employee accidents in Wales before 1939. All welcome: https://buff.ly/4ha283C

And so the last site for this series of #diggingforbritain - our Rat Island. It’s a constant effort site as the remains of these poor people keep eroding. This man had an altogether darker tale we are still investigating #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

#DrawingDiggingforBritain #LlanilttudFawr

Fascinating meeting at #GlamorganArchives yesterday, examples of Barry and Cardiff records #GlamorganFHS including 1622 Evans Mouse survey of Barry Manor which included cottage eventually tenanted by my 7x gt grandmother the notorious witch Anne Richmond Jenkins.

Common sense has prevailed for once. Phew!

The new series of #diggingforbritain starts tomorrow! So sharpen your pencils, get your needles threaded, charge your batteries and join us for #drawingdiggingforbritain let’s see what inspires you from the year’s #archaeology. @raretelevision.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

My offering for episode 1. The moment of discovery. The first light on a face for over a thousand years. Gives me goosebumps #drawingdiggingforbritain @richardosgood.bsky.social

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

The 1921 England & Wales Census will be available on Ancestry during the first half of 2025.

The Somme Archives have digitized some wonderful civilian photo albums. This one belonged to Yvonne Lelong and Raymond Rameil of Amiens. It has many images of the Somme during the FWW, like this page of French and British soldiers arriving in Albert in August 1914 archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/4...

Tonight, the Cold Moon rises. ❄️ Known too as the Long Night Moon or The Moon Before Yule, it rises during the darkest nights of the year, heralding the onset of winter’s chill. Its glow has guided ancient Yule traditions and marked the turning of the seasons. Moonrise: 15:09*

It took a little while, but all 70,000 enrolled charitable trust deeds on the Close Rolls (TNA C 54), taken from the calendars at Kew, are now searchable on Discovery. Search by place name, county, or even charitable purpose. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...

The French national geographical institution have just released online the Cassini maps (done by triangulation?) started in 1756 and not finished until after the revolution. www.ign.fr/institut/esp...

Advance warning! Two op nightingale digs in this series - Rat Island and RAF Valley. More when i know! This always brightens winter months and don’t forget #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

Next week - #Bridgend branch meeting on Monday 16th December, 7.30pm, Aberkenfig Resource Centre. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

I didn't get a Red weather alert from the Govt but I did from Tesco who have cancelled my delivery tomorrow due to the hazardous conditions!

🧵 #DisabilityHistoryMonth 🧵 “The left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper was cut off & interr’d here June 18th, 1756” 🦵 📍 Ystrad Fflur ⛪️ #Wales #History

If you want to check surviving poll books for the eighteenth century, our ECPPEC project lists 1,929 surviving poll books for the period 1695-1832, corresponding to 11676 separate elections. Searchable polling data here: ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/data-explorer/ #c18th #skystorians 🗃️

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...

Lovely afternoon at Green & Jenks, Wellfield Road, #Cardiff - local/family history exhibition curated and presented by owner Gilly Jenks, focused on her ancestors’ business Roath Park Dairy Company, followed by tea and excellent cake. Email [email protected] to arrange a visit if interested.

Post from a different era: Early 1950s - with Mary Anne!

Seen some posts spreading the myth that you can't research your Welsh ancestors if they have a common surname like Jones. So I wanted to share my video on how people approach Welsh research wrong. It was originally aimed toward American viewers but useful for everyone #Genealogy youtu.be/YOLnlLLItv4

This is happening today. Please consider joining remotely if you can't come in person. Registration available at the link to get Zoom access. #history #18thCentury

Dim eira yn Y Barri! ❄️

Meetings next week: Monday 18th November, 7.30pm - Bridgend branch (Aberkenfig Resource Centre) Tuesday 19th November, 7.00pm - Pontypridd & Rhondda branch (Pontypridd Museum) #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Bridgend #Pontypridd #Glamorgan

Our December journal has been uploaded to our website and is on its way in the post. Members need to log in to view www.glamfhs.org.uk/journal-archive

First thing to check when you're looking at the service record of a man who served in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars... Was he awarded an additional two years' service towards his pension? In other words, did he serve at Waterloo? In this case, I'm delighted to say, the answer is 'yes'!

Before and after... Great to see @thenmct.bsky.social here - the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust provided us with crucial funding to pay for conservation work on the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers. The huge NUM collection is now conserved & in the process of being catalogued.

Pleased with this work. In 116 days covered by my analysis, 640 Ambulance Train loads took casualties from Third Battle of Ypres to the Base Hospitals. This equates to a total of somewhere in the region of 256000-384000 casualties. #WW1 #FWW #history #Ypres www.longlongtrail.co.uk/evacuation-o...

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...

My book 'Welsh Not' is now out. It explores both the perception and treatment of language in 19th-century education & the wider reasons for linguistic change in Wales. £20 in paperback or a free pdf here: uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...