Due to popular demand I’m releasing a limited run of my Euro 2025 linocut print. I’ve built the basic website myself so any glitches just shout. All profits entirely to charity. If you’d like to buy one you can here 👇 www.pitchandpress.co.uk

If you are near Belfast, you may be interested in this free in-person family history event run by ‪@nifhs.bsky.social‬ at PRONI on Saturday 23 August 2025: www.nifhs.org/events/reall... I will be hosting a stall for @strathgenealogy.bsky.social‬ so please come and say hi!🙂 #Genealogy #AncestryHour

For all my #Genealogy new followers ‘Dear Paul’ would like to remind you, if you find anything quirky, funny, strange or record breaking please drop me an email to [email protected] and you might just feature in @familytreeplus.bsky.social #DearPaul #Genealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour

Good evening #AncestryHour, how are we all this evening? I've been having two separate #Wellock related conversations, one with someone in Canada and one in New Zealand. The one in New Zealand has a photo of my G Grandfather from 1921!

Well what a lovely #AncestryHour after being away for so long. Thank you all

Hello, lovely to see some people on #AncestryHour this evening as I've been absent for the last month whilst I followed the #Lionesses to victory in #Euro25.

Good evening #Genhour it's time to announce my new business. I said I would start a business after getting my Higher Certificate in Genealogy and I have 😀 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

ICYMI: Season Nine box-set is available for catch-up here: familyhistoriespodcast.com/series-nine/ #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #podcast #FamilyTree #SocialHistory

The Chloe Kelly penalty. Wow my heart stopped. Twice. Michelle Agyemang too. #Lionesses you do us proud. #WEuro25

Missing #AncestryHour for a reason! Have been working on family trees for the #Lionesses.

Just ran downstairs to share the news with the two receptionists with Italian heritage that I'd earlier shared my #WEuro25 excitement with. Fingers tightly crossed for tomorrow, but really looking forward to the #Lionesses playing #Italy

In the places I hang out it has become quite normal for period products to be available, free of charge, in toilets. This is brilliant of course, but reflects my circle. Which is why I loved that at #WEURO25 they also had them out and proud with a view of the stadium. #LoveLionesses. #Lionesses

🦁Lionesses to score a 2+ goals in a Euros match: ▪️ Eni Aluko (Euro 2009) ▪️ Jodie Taylor* (Euro 2017) ▪️ Ellen White (Euro 2022) ▪️ Beth Mead* (Euro 2022) ▪️ Alessia Russo (Euro 2022) ▪️ Lauren James (Euro 2025) *hat-trick #Lionesses #Euro2025

@suzywrack.bsky.social @tomjgarry.bsky.social @theguardian.com - any idea why there have been so many offside goals this Euros? Even taking account the ones that only VAR could have ruled offside there seem to be one or two every match. #WEuro2025

#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #AncestryHour What will happen to your family's once-treasured old china, crystal, and/or silverware in the future? I have suggestions, please take a look and add your own ideas and experiences! climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/06/what...

And as if @sogorg.bsky.social read my post from ten minutes ago this would be perfect to learn more if I was around on Saturday. #AncestryHour

Really curious about how straightforward/difficult researching #FamilyHistory in the Republic of Tatarstan might be.... #AncestryHour

And last starter message from me. I've been scratching my head over a couple of baptisms in 1740 and 1741, both of which are before the parents married later in 1741, but seem to carry the father's surname, who is listed on the records. #AncestryHour 1/2

Couple of other things. I've been slowly reading Swaledale and Wharfedale Remembered, which contains short bios of all those from the area who died in WWI and WW2. There is a #Wellock in there, but so far no others who are jumping out as related. #AncestryHour 1/2

Good evening #AncestryHour folks. I hope everyone is well. Just sharing this opportunity to share your point of view on #WDYTYA tonight.

"So many people have taken these DNA tests that the age of genetic anonymity is over". Quote from @jennykleeman.bsky.social on radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... on podcasting family histories. I skipped back to make sure I got it right as it is exactly my thinking. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Mary Newlands has been in pencil on my family tree for nearly 5 decades - here's why I finally inked her in thehistoryinterpreter.com/2025/06/03/i... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #BrickWall

Mostly this week has been finishing assignments for @pharostutors.bsky.social recording the poor course. I got decidedly distracted by the almshouses at #Leathley, where I used to live. This is the view from the Almshouses there. Not normally so many cars, but there was a wedding.... #AncestryHour

Good evening #AncestryHour. Currently multi-tasking as the #Lionesses are playing Spain. Which gives me an excuse to celebrate being part of @wikitree.bsky.social profiles for Beth England www.wikitree.com/wiki/England... and @leahwilliamson.bsky.social www.wikitree.com/wiki/William...

[4] This is another child in the Dublin gallery. They are known as the Cottage Girl. The thing is though, he was a boy that Thomas Gainsborough came across & turned into one of his greatest masterpieces.

[3] If you were a Dutch toddler & a boy, you were dressed as a girl in the higher strata of society. It made sense in changing nappies but seems strange to modern eyes. This is a little boy who lives in the National Gallery in Dublin. Gender meant something different then too.

🧵 Ppl often use the terms sex & gender interchangeably. Sex is a biological term & refers to a spectrum [not a binary, as journos insist]. Gender is usually cultural & about traits typically associated with one’s sex. Think 16th C codpieces. If you identified as a posh man you wore one. [1]

Well once again, thanks for a wonderful #AncestryHour folks, hopefully see you next week.

I had a couple of #FamilySearch questions which maybe #AncestryHour could help with. 1) Why does the 1939 register never come up on profile searches and how do I find it otherwise? I've seen records connected to other profiles, but no matter how I filter profile searches it doesn't come up.

Am excited to have got my Lionesses profile up on @wikitree.bsky.social this week. Beth England is a Barnsley lass and I've been hoping to find a connection. Sadly our lines don't seem to intersect as yet, love bringing my two interests together. #AncestryHour www.wikitree.com/wiki/England...

Good evening #AncestryHour, a little late as I decided my tea was a little too messy to eat in front of the laptop. Tea being the meal I eat in the evening :-)

When one of my friends tried to tell me that rainbow laces 🏳️‍🌈 didn’t include trans rights support, I thought I needed to make it more explicit about who needs our support most at the moment.

So my stuff to share #AncestryHour. Two Ethels were born on 11 November 1892, one in Stoke on Trent, one in Yorkshire. Both married Bentleys, one a William John, one a John William. Both, by then Ethel Bentleys were widowed young-ish between 1921 and 1939. 1/4

Hello, super late to #AncestryHour as my lovely sister-in-law and friend was visiting. Had something to ask/share, but going to see what else you have been chatting about first!

If AI creates such good looking ancestors, i might have to try it! #AncestryHour

It’s time for our Series Nine opening episode - 'The Secretive' with Ron Williams (@rwgenealogymemoirs.bsky.social) familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/05/06/s... #genealogy #AncestryHour #genealogy #FamilyHistory #ancestry

A few months ago we were celebrating 300 followers. Now we’ve just passed 500 and we’re really grateful! Come and see us at our 50th Anniversary celebration in June. See below. Loads of stalls from loads of Societies with tons of freebies. Free parking too!

#GenHour I've mentioned this before, but my husband's German families sometimes swapped their names around so the name they used became their American first name, and their German first name (which indicated which generation) became their American middle name. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...

Thanks to everyone on #GenHour this evening. Coming up to a reflective weekend for me and you've all been very lovely. Maybe see you on #AncestryHour on Tuesday?

This is a wonderful (and tough) honouring of how just two Jewish families were impacted by the Holocaust. Worth reading the whole of @genealogrebecca.bsky.social 's thread.

🩺 Tracing Nursing Ancestors with Jude Rhodes 🗓️ Sat 10 May, 10:30 (UK) | Zoom Explore the evolving role of nurses & how to trace caregiving relatives—military, hospital or community—with genealogist & RN Jude Rhodes. 🎟️ members.sog.org.uk/e... #Genealogy #NursingAncestors #GenHour

📣 Getting the Most from FamilySearch.org with Lucy Reynoldson 🖥️🌳 🗓️ Thurs 8 May, 14:00 (UK) | Zoom Unlock hidden tools, tips & collections on this powerful (and free!) platform in a 1-hr talk with the UK FamilySearch Ambassador. 🎟️ members.sog.org.uk/e... #FamilySearch #GenHour

So I figured I have an excuse now to share photos of the three of them. My Uncle Richard was 22, my husband Paul was 30 and my Dad, George Christopher otherwise known as Bob was 34. Handsome chaps all three 😉 #GenHour

The glorious weather also found me hanging out in a local cemetery this afternoon adding photos and other detail to #FindAGrave. A perfect hobby for a sunshiney day in May. #GenHour

👋 #AncestryHour #GenHour If you missed the FREE Virtual Genealogical Association birthday party on Sunday, you can watch all the #Genealogy #FamilyHistory talks free on YouTube. First speaker was Katherine Willson, whose excellent talk about finding photos is here: youtu.be/ulKbG-UPpvs?...

Good evening #GenHour. I voted in #Harrogate today for the first time. And also had my first peek into the beautiful Wesleyan chapel. Got me to thinking about my GG Grandmother Amelia (Bradbury) #Houseman (1848 - 1931). natashahouseman.co.uk/are-we-a-pol... 1/2

Thanks for a wonderful #AncestryHour - now going to settle back and actually read the article which @scientistsoph.bsky.social shared and which sparked so many fun conversations this evening. Farewell patchy lion friend.

Good evening #AncestryHour, looking forward to catching up this evening with anyone online. I've just kickstarted a @pharostutors.bsky.social course on "Recording the Poor" and dove straight into finally investigating the story of 2 #Wellock sisters. 1/2

This is so the story of my kitchen utensils. Almost everyone has a story either mine or that of a relative or friend. Grandpy's toffee crunch tin was one of the more sought after pieces in my family. What about other #AncestryHour folks?

In discussing "Recording the Poor" an @pharostutors.bsky.social course and what our poorer ancestors funerals were like, I was reminded of this lovely @radio4rne.bsky.social programme about how people are striving to humanise public health funerals www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m.... #FamilyHistory