Later than hoped in joining the #OPSconf25 as, ironically given the travel theme, I got stuck in traffic! Thankfully home & logged in now.

Your Saturday sorted - #OnePlaceStudies conference, 22 November

Spot the difference. Cross stitch update - 14 and 21 November 2025 comparison. #CrossStitch #BothyThreads #Fox #RachelFroud

I’ve added a new May Queen post to the Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study - 1952 and Patricia Anne Cain #OnePlaceStudy #Batley #LocalHistory 👇🏻 wp.me/P4Cet3-5SW

Agh. Frustrated researcher. Can’t access #Findmypast at the moment - suspect it might be one of the sites caught up in the current cloudflare internet outage? #FamilyHistory

Your countdown warning, along with my thoughts tonight about the probate price increase #Probate #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy #OneNameStudy #WW1 #Wills wp.me/p4Cet3-5Ua

Before Monday’s shocking price rise, 6 direct line ancestor wills ordered. 4 came back instantly, having already been digitised, so akin to the automated digitised wills service for #WW1 soldiers. Begs the question why pricing isn’t graded akin to GRO Digital Images & PDFs #Probate #FamilyHistory

12 probate documents ordered for a client this morning, cost £18. On Monday that same order will cost an eye-watering £192. Tomorrow hoping to revisit my direct line ancestors, & a final check of my one-place study #WW1 wills, to make sure I’ve got everything #Probate #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudy

No cross stitch update last week because no stitching was done. But did manage some this week, so here’s the difference between 31 October & 14 November 2025. #CrossStitch #BothyThreads #Fox #RachelFroud

A gold pocket watch recovered from the body of one of the richest passengers on the Titanic is expected to fetch £1m at auction. #Titanic #Auction www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@thelineagefinder.bsky.social I’ve found this photo I took of the interior of Batley St Mary of the Angels

All very frenetic today as I decided to do some last minute changes to my #Batley Irish & St Mary of the Angels talk, including new slides, new info & some re-ordering. Thankfully I survived its first public outing tonight, delivered via Zoom #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

For Remembrance Sunday I’ve published a new Batley St Mary of the Angels biography, James Edwards who was killed in action in 1918. Dedicated to his nephew who served in WW2. #WW1 #OnePlaceStudy #Batley #LocalHistory 👇🏻 wp.me/P4Cet3-5Ns

Won’t be watching Traitors until husband’s shift ends. So no better way to fill the time till then curled up with a good book - the new Jimmy Perez instalment by Ann Cleeves. #IAmReading #Bookworm #JimmyPerez

I think many of us who have researched War Memorials can relate to this. WW1 soldier honoured after local sleuth's research. #WarMemorial #WW1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quest to identify WW1 soldier after grave robbery www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A busy couple of speaking days. Did my #Lusitania talk for Morley & District Family History Group last night, & a men’s group at Collingham this morning. Next outing for the #Lusitania is 8 Dec for a Birstall church group.

Time to get those wills you’ve been thinking about. From 17 November 2025 the cost for a copy of a probate document will rise from £1.50 to £16 per document. It’s an increase of almost 1000% Explanation below #Probate #FamilyHistory

Buffalo Bill & a Right Royal Celebration for Batley’s Schoolchildren. Perhaps you have one of the medals in the photo - if so you might want to learn about its history. #Batley #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy wp.me/P4Cet3-5TA

I’ve not done a cross stitch update for a while because sewing time has been limited. But here’s the difference between 25 July & 31 October 2025. #CrossStitch #BothyThreads #Fox #RachelFroud

What an incredible find. Messages in a bottle from WWI soldiers found on Australian coast #WW1 www.bbc.com/news/article...

There’s a new version of FreeBMD, (FreeBMD2), for free access to England & Wales civil registration index info. The original version will continue to be updated & available for the forseeable future. More about the changes below #FamilyHistory #CivilRegistration www.freebmd2.org.uk/help/about_new

Sharing my Batley St Mary of the Angels RC parish One-Place Study love. Appropriately on 11 November, as the church WW1 War Memorial was the catalyst for my study. #OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory #Batley

Had a few days off staying in a cottage right by the beach at #Porthdinllaen on the Llŷn Peninsula in Wales. Total chill out time with not one jot of genealogy research done. Instead it was family time, plus connecting with nature with beach walks, #sunrises, #sunsets and #rainbows. Bliss.

The Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study now has 414 posts, with 4 added in September. These include a parishioner killed serving in World War 2 & the last man executed for a Batley murder. Links to all are below #Batley #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceWednesday wp.me/p4Cet3-5Sn

Back to 1952 for the latest Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study post, all about the 2nd Torchlight Procession. #OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory #Batley #OnePlaceWednesday wp.me/P4Cet3-5Sy

Another archive day, this time West Yorkshire Archive Service Wakefield. Delving through Nostell Priory staff records, amongst others. Now to write up the report. #FamilyHistory #ProfessionalResearcher

Bowling Cemetery work visit & drawn to a huge memorial commemorating Cpl Jerry Delaney MM, Royal Fusiliers, Sportsman’s Battalion, killed in France. No other names. Public subscription paid for his memorial & Lord Lonsdale contributed - Jeremiah Delaney was a Bradford boxer with no known grave #WW1

I do love it when a plan comes together. And all in record time too. Speculative research for a client in Leeds RC Diocesan Archives, and within 15 minutes found exactly what I wanted and more besides! A reminder that family history is not all online. #FamilyHistory #Archives

Stories Beneath the Stones at Batley Cemetery, led by #Batley History Group members, with the town’s fascinating history demonstrated by those buried there. Even the wet weather added to the atmosphere … though I’m glad to get home to dry out, warm up and have a cuppa #HeritageOpenDays #LocalHistory

As part of this year’s Heritage Open Day events, I visited Shibden Hall, Halifax, the former home of Anne Lister. Lots of costumes on display from the TV drama #GentlemanJack, along with gorgeous period furnishings too. #ShibdenHall #Calderdale #AnneLister #HeritageOpenDays

Gave a successful talk tonight to a lovely group at Drighlington about ‘How to Research Your Family Tree.’ Attendees had a range of experience from novice to more advanced. Notes were taken & lots of questions asked at the end, which is always a good sign. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Tonight I’ve uploaded a new Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study post. It’s about the last man to be executed for a murder in Batley, and is based on updated research. #OnePlaceStudy #Batley #LocalHistory 👇🏻 wp.me/P4Cet3-5QN

More or less over my op, and fully back working. Today I’m preparing slides for one of the five family/local history talks I’ll be giving between now and the end of November. Roll on Christmas 😂 #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

1st #OnePlaceWednesday for a while for me, but here’s a new Batley St Mary of the Angels May Queen piece - Mary Harkin from 1951 #Batley #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy wp.me/P4Cet3-5Qb

Arrived in the post today, bought via Amazon in a good used condition (looks new & unread to me) at a bargain price of £7.67. #EvidenceExplained #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

My final piece of Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study work for today was to update the chronology of World War Two deaths, with more names added to the parish Roll of Honour #OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory #WorldWarTwo #Batley wp.me/P4Cet3-3cu

Another update to the Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study went online today - the July 2025 parish history bulletin pieces #OnePlaceStudy #Batley #LocalHistory wp.me/P4Cet3-5Oe

After a break of over two months, today I finally spent some time on my Batley St Mary of the Angels One-Place Study. Here are the parish history bulletin pieces from June 2025. #Batley #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy wp.me/P4Cet3-5O8

Love story of two Edwardian servants on Yorkshire estate told in new collection www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Back from framing. Long stitch Lindisfarne Castle and cross stitch Sycamore Gap #CrossStitch #LongStitch #SycamoreGap #BothyThreads #LindisfarneCastle

This morning’s fun in the garden: 1st cricket Gunn & Moore cricket set #grandson #makingmemories #cricket

The latest Friday cross stitch update, and on to a new chart page. Difference between 18 & 25 July 2025. #CrossStitch #BothyThreads #Fox #RachelFroud

Divers find WW1 ship 109 years after it was sunk www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cheesed off. In last August’s madness I got Heaton Park Oasis tickets for the family tonight. Because of my surgery complications I couldn’t go. So I’m home alone listening to Snoring Dog whilst they’re all there listening to Don’t Look Back in Anger. At least nephew benefited from my ticket #Oasis

Another week goes by. The latest Friday cross stitch update. Difference between 11 & 18 July 2025. #CrossStitch #BothyThreads #Fox #RachelFroud

A walk round Dewsbury cemetery this morning for some work photos. Headstones encapsulate the history of the town, & some in Dewsbury are v grand. But it was sad to see the state of disrepair Kirklees have let the Grade II Listed Twin Chapels fall into. #Dewsbury #Cemetery #ListedBuildings #Kirklees

The latest Friday cross stitch update. Progress is slowing, but there is a difference between 4 & 11 July 2025. #CrossStitch #BothyThreads #Fox #RachelFroud

Just read The List of Suspicious Things, set in Yorkshire at the time of The Ripper. It’s brilliant. The era & locality resonate with me. Amazingly a Batley mill tragedy I blogged about features & my website is in the acknowledgements. Thank you @jenniegauthor.bsky.social #Batley #OnePlaceStudy