Just did the most fun & thoughtful RootsTech Ridealong session with my most genuine of friends Barbara Tien at Projectkin. I should have talked more about WeAre, but this was just a beautiful stream of consciousness that made my year xx Barbara in Berkeley where sand dollars are the real currency 🙂

When a conversation begins "I have to tell you about time travel" you know it's going to be good. What a fun conversation with @simondmd.bsky.social. Watch for the recording with detailed notes within a couple of hours. #NotAtRootsTech #RootsTech #Genealogy #Storytelling #Ancestors

Please do come along - a really fun chat rather than a workshop - lets see what hidden gems people have found in their research - and exchange experiences of getting family interest

Can anyone decipher this? Shown as 'Residence at time of marriage' which took place in Montgomeryshire in 1843 #FamilyHistory

I enjoyed this :) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-nort...

This is post war HQ of Ministry of Agriculture Food & Fisheries (MAFF) 'Great Westminster House' Horseferry Rd, London. Seen here at 1937 opening. This is the ONLY image I can find - surely pics exist of a governement ministry???? anyone ? My Grandfather worked here in 1950s #OnePlaceWednesday

There is a little known time portal right here in the heart of London... app.weare.xyz/blog/the-byt...

If anyone's curious about WeAre.xyz collaborative archiving platform, I'm presenting to GeneBloggers Sun 9th at 3pm ET. Will meander over ancestral country lanes, Kansas creeks & WW1 trenches; support from Kevin the drone #FamilyHistory #Genealogy Free, register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...

Got any glass plate negatives or marooned camcorder DAT tapes. @sogorg.bsky.social running this delicious course, and digitally preserving these will be my contribution: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

My lovely daughter spotted this in a bookshop in York for £4 and brought it for me :) how great is that xx

Looking forward to it - will be fun :) Anyone remember their camcorders?

Calling lovely friends in Queensland. A Shropshire memorial & death date for 2xG Uncle Matthew Henry Davies led to his death in Colony Towers QSD 10 Jul 1897. I think was a gold prospecting town? Any tips on info sources gratefully received (death records, newspapers...) xx #GenHour #FamilyHistory

Part 1 of my interview last month with @coachcarole.bsky.social about my #StMaryBourne #OnePlaceStudy shared on WeAre.XYZ (@simondmd.bsky.social). I'll share the other 2 parts later 😁 #OnePlaceWednesday youtu.be/f6cUmokdHZw?...

Can anyone work out the last word: 'house painter plumber ??' Thank you :) This is wife's ancestor John Yoxall from Crewe England who landed at Ellis Island 1st Jan 1867

Any ideas what bird this is from? Found on chalk down bordered by woodland. Have couple of ideas but won’t lead the witness :) @atcherleyons.bsky.social

OMG the fields behind my parents in my home village TODAY - Gt Shelford/Stapleford Cambs. 12 fire engines on scene I hear.

All welcome to our next Shropshire Family History in person 'TALKING FAMILY HISTORY LIVE' event. It's great this is now a fun lively biannual event emerging from the COVID shadow. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Well that's tomorrow's talk ready for the Family Historian Zoom Group. Starting with What is a #OnePlaceStudy, followed by examples from my @simondmd.bsky.social site and ending with some Family Historian customisations to help enter some particular types of records. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

EVENT Sat 30th Aug, 17:00 BST click to join: fb.me/e/3C9nqKIZC WeAre.xyz Features & Fun August Taster Join our super friendly group zoom on collaborative family archiving, & all things ancestral & nostalgic :) #FamilyHistory ChatGPT's image of group of genealogists having A LOT OF FUN on vacation

Buck House lit up for VJ Day

A wonderful friend of mine just turned 60. His ancestor won a VC in WW1 so I made him this. Frame and photo cost about £20, the Victoria Cross an extra £400k but I’m sure you’ll agree it was worth every penny :) PS don’t tell him - it’s a surprise

spotted these beautiful carriages off Horse Guards Parade, London (practice for a military musical event tomorrow a friendly policewoman informed me)

cheque is on the post xx

Hoping our US friends and relatives have a fabulous 4th of July ... This is a blog post I made about a 1990 visit to Fort McHenry on this very day... a long time ago... loving my t-shirt: app.weare.xyz/blog/the-byt...

this is fab Julie!!

It certainly is a big achievement! I really enjoyed reading it, & it’s interesting to see how people are using #WeAre @simondmd.bsky.social for their #OnePlaceStudies #GenHour

Good question! I am progressively pulling all my #FamilyHistory research together into a #FamilyHistoryArchive using the weare.xyz platform (which I am also using for my #OnePlaceStudy)

And this one is just the first in a series to come (alternating across different time zones). Definitely something to attend if you are using the weare.xyz platform to gather together your #FamilyHistory or #OnePlaceStudy research or thinking about using it for that purpose..

Wonderful review on Substack, made my day... 'Diving Into My Family’s Story on WeAre.XYZ' open.substack.com/pub/heritage... Thx @barbarajeanmay.bsky.social

The Homebush Brickworks was where my grandfather, Ted Hamilton, worked for most of his adult life. #genealogy #familyhistory #blog app.weare.xyz/blog/our-fam....

Oh the joy, my son has finally presented me with a meal cooked all by himself - swelling with pride…

Defrosted the freezer - it’s the simple things in life :) Now to WW1 4th South African Infantry Battalion service records - where are they??? #FamilyHistory #WW1

Look at this beauty, a female Harris Hawk on Shaftesbury Avenue, opposite Chinatown. Scaring pigeons off Sondeim theatre, home of Les Miserables

This one is for you @atcherleyons.bsky.social :) love your pics…

I loved this new book 'Firestarter'. True story of 1830s arsonist in Gt Shelford (where I grew up). You really are transported. Backdrop of 'inclosure', Swing Riots, underpinned by archive letters, newspapers, assize & parish records & the harsh finale on the gallows. #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudies

Help - can anyone decipher this word in a late 1700s UK will? #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Have to love the ‘Merlin App’ for song recognition - Wormwood Scrubs this lunchtime

Curious, any ideas? - Henrietta Brent baptised in 1792 in High Ham Somerset along with younger sister. They were born 1787 and 1789. Think parents were gentry, she will marry landed gentry. Why the baptism delay - they feared unbaptised infant death #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Enjoying our @shropshirefhs.bsky.social Shropshire Family History Society in person day - our Great Leader Karen demo’ing the imminent new website. #FamilyHistory

Some people (myself included) are using @simondmd.bsky.social’s platform weare.xyz which has a version specifically designed for #OnePlaceStudies. I just need to get round to uploading some of my content!

sitting at Audley End station noticed the old Victorian postbox ‘VR’ - was it originally grey i am wondering? #oneplacewednesday

@andrewknights.bsky.social found you! Am on Magog Down heading home after lunch - can’t find a Green hairstreak :(

A stroll discovery at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue in London’s West End - The Rev Martin Luther King

A flirting couple of beautiful brimstones in Cambridgeshire

Odiham Castle built as a hunting lodge by King John 1214 - so about lunchtime :)

IMHO this is the most beautiful cherry blossom tree in London at the top of the hill which is ‘Notting Hill’ off Ladbroke Grove. It’s perfect for about 3 days and mobbed by tourists taking selfies (this was very early in the day)

A glorious day, but where am I? Behind me is one of our most famous landmarks.

The top of Portobello Rd this morning in the spring sunshine. Come on Southern Hemisphere, give it up, the sun wants to come home :)

Well, I have no idea if this is tree, but I figured it might be of comfort to more than just me :) Happy Thursday... spring sunshine abounds in London.