Go on. You know you need to. #ww1 #genealogy #vlaanderen #wo1 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/from...

Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Delighted to announce I’ve been accepted as an AGRA associate. www.agra.org.uk/catriona-hai...

New post on the Frugal Family Historian blog. Free records for Remembrance weekend, YouTube, podcasts. It's all about researching, and picking up new skills. Learn more, do more, spend nothing. #AncestryHour scotsancestors.blogspot.com/2025/11/lear...

Researching in NHSGGC and Glasgow City Archives today which are based in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, which quite possibly has the best collection of 1970s pattern carpets in the country. Any other libraries or archives with such amazing carpets? #AncestryHour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Excited to be taking part in my first #FewForgottenWomen today. The woman I’m researching was lodging not far from where my grandfather was living at the time of the 1901 census so it feels a little bit like going home.

I'm looking forward to meeting with the Leicestershire & Rutland FHS lrfhs.org.uk this Wednesday where we'll be discussing how to kill off our ancestors. More details in the alt text. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #AncestryHour

Unusually early dinner means for once I’ve actually not missed #AncestryHour My fortnightly session in @gwsfhs.org.uk research centre in Partick this afternoon. And the joy of traffic on the way home is getting to appreciate the wonderful #GhostSigns that are popping up everywhere. How is everyone?

Katja, my no 1 research buddy when I’m working from home. She really wants to be on my lap when I’m sitting at my desk, but I eventually persuade her the chair beside me is the place to be. #CatSpam

I've known for a while I was doing well at Ulster counties ancestral bingo but also looking good now for Irish Provinces on latest Ancestry regions. Brand new for me is Hebrides & Highlands for the first time ever, which somehow makes feel like I'm a real Scot now. What's change for everyone else?

🚨 New on Substack: my post on the post-war history of Wolverhampton's Low Hill Estate: ‘a popular place to live’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-low-hi...

Fresh October newsletter out now. claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/p/time-to-ha... #GenHour #AncestryHour #IrishGenealogy

www.ancestry.co.uk/c/dna/offer?... AncestryDNA kits on Ancestry UK are £39! #Genealogy

That thing where you’re looking at parish maps in an actual book of The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers… and try to use 2 fingers to zoom in on the area of interest. Ah well, I’ll take an actual pic then to zoom in on. 🙈😂

Looking forward to this.

I have a talk this Saturday with the Irish Genealogical Society International - Irish Migrations to Canada! It's a topic near and dear to my heart, given that all of my Irish ancestors who came to North America settled in Canada! If you're interested: www.irishgenealogical.org/eventListing...

As every family knows, life gets busy after the arrival of a newborn. Top tip from the mid 19th century - have your baby baptised before it's born! Not a straightforward transcription howler. Columns in original register not consistently used for birth or bap dates. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

A good example of why we should always view all available copies of a record. Here we have two versions of the same marriage record; on the left is the Bishops' Transcript, on the right the original from the parish register of All Saints, Wigan. Check out the witnesses...

"Using DNA for Family History Research: A Beginner's Guide" will take place online on Sat 20 Sept at 7pm UK time, admission £10. (A recording will be made available for a week after.) To register, please visit us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... I'll hopefully see you there! #genealogy #FamilyHistory

Teachers’ Windrush Workshop. Free online event Sunday, 7 September 2025, 7 pm to 9 pm BST. The event isn't exclusive to teachers, but is also open to anyone who would like to learn how to share the truth about Windrush with others. #Windrush […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

I might have discovered this joy….

I went to the Andy Goldsworthy exhibition in Edinburgh today and it was rather fabulous. But no surprise that I was mesmerised by the installation called ‘Gravestones’

Just 6 weeks left until the Halsted Trust’s #Genealogy & #FamilyHistory conference. Apparently only a few residential places remain. I’m so looking forward to catching up with genealogy friends in person. Who’s going to be there? secretsandlies.org.uk

When you love books, maps and 19th century social history, Kris Butler’s book involving all 3 is VERY difficult to resist. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #SocialHistory

It really helps to understand a set of records if you can work out how the clerks used them went about their job. In the indexes to the Stock Ledgers held at the Bank England Archives. The surnames are arranged by: 1 initial letter 2 first consonant after the initial letter 3 first vowel Genius!

For the second time recently, I registered twins with the exact same first name. I advised against it and it probably will cause issues… but the parent was insistent 🤦🏻‍♀️

Here is our poster for our Family History Fair and plus celebrating the Society's 45th Anniversary. I hope as many people will come and see us. #familyhistory #genealogy #cornexchangedoncaster

Happisburgh, #Norfolk, considers how to save a 15th C graveyard from coastal erosion. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A bookshop is my happy place. I love them all but the bookshop at The National Archives in Kew might just have captured a special place in my heart. Not only a whole section on social history, but a whole wall dedicated to Family History. Which other bookshops have good #familyhistory #genealogy?

In London for a couple of days & while walking between Euston & King’s X I walked past this lovely example of interwar social housing. So of course I had to go and find out all about it. Interesting history & renovation/restoration of Levita House c20society.org.uk/building-of-...

@nifhs.bsky.social recently had an mtDNA offer & I grabbed the opportunity. Then life got busy & I’ve just remembered the test is still sitting in my office. Would love to hear from anyone who’s taken an mtDNA test and what you did or didn’t discover. #genealogy #FamilyHistory

For #FathersDay I thought I would reshare my blog about the most prolific father I have researched — William Wilson of Whitehaven, reputed father of 33 children!

24 HOURS TO GO! The new Railway Work, Life & Death project dataset arrives tomorrow afternoon. We're launching it at The National Archives of the UK @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy at 2pm! Get ready ... c.70,000 railway worker accident cases, covering England & Wales, 1855-1929 #Railway200

@gwsfhs.org.uk is my fav FHS. Excellent help to people from all around the world who contact them online. But I esp love the warm welcome & great help they give all visitors, from down the road or the other side of the world, to their research room in Glasgow. Open on Tues, Thurs & Sat 1-4.

Very timely. Over the past week or so, I've visited Sommerville Drive in Mount Florida a few times , one of the very streets that run alongside Hampden, and I had wondered about the origins of the name.

Explain your username. MarpleCat predates my genie business. Always a detective, uncovering what was going on with all sorts of issues. An old boss dubbed me Miss Marple after the Agatha C detective, 30 odd years ago, and then a friend labelled me Detective Cat. MarpleCat was born from them both.

It would be remiss of me not to give this one a little #GenHour plug this evening. I'm so grateful to @familytreeuk.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to talk about mental health, and for Kathryn's help in understanding more about Maud.

1/ I'm looking forward to speaking at the Bristol Radical History Festival on 26 April on 'Housing the People: the Contested Role of the State from Pre-Industrial Times to the 1930s'. There's a great range of speakers and topics - see the next post: www.brh.org.uk/site/events/...

Today could be the last day to get hold of wills for £1.50 (England & Wales) before a price rise, which might be significant. See the lastest LostCousins newsletter for more info. I've just placed an order for 4 and the website was struggling... www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2...

Scottish Water Mills map on @natlibscot.bsky.social is a great resource. Not all mills are mapped,eg Burnside Mill in Rutherglen where I was recently researching mills for a client. From the high level map you can zoom in to more detail on each mill pinpointed. #genealogy maps.nls.uk/projects/mil...

Looking forward to the Halsted Trust’s family history conference in September and its theme of “black sheep” ancestors, and especially love the opportunity to meet up with fellow genealogists and family history enthusiasts, even more so after the Zoom only years. secretsandlies.org.uk #genealogy

Scotland's History Online (SHO) - 15% off until May 30th! Access the most comprehensive & prestigious digital library of Scottish historical research from Edinburgh University Press, Birlinn Ltd & TannerRitchie Publishing. Interested? Contact [email protected] today! #history #scotland

Looks like Irishgenealogy is loading on the new year of records. Indexes for the 3 new years are now up but the images aren't there yet. It surely won't be long now! (births for 1924, marriages for 1949 & 1974 deaths) #IrishGenealogy #GenHour #AncestryHour

On a very cold & overcast Sunday morning in Dundee I visited the ancient Howff cemetery. A lot of info & photos online far better than my snaps but visiting in person is more than worth it. A very special spot surrounded by tenements that must surely have contributed to the survival the headstones.

In Glasgow you’re not a real statue unless you’ve got a traffic cone on your head.

You know I can't help but remind you of Annie Moore on St. Patrick's Day! I hope you'll consider reading about the Irish teenager who was the first to arrive at Ellis Island and what it took to uncover her story. ☘️ 🗽 #StPatricksDay

☘️ Happy #StPatricksDay! ☘️ For the past five years I've loved being able to celebrate St Patrick's Day as an Irish citizen. It was a bit of genealogical challenge to achieve but I got there in the end. I wrote about in my often neglected blog. www.marplecat.com/post/from-ir...

The Victorian grandeur of Rothesay, a popular 19th century holiday destination on the Isle of Bute, has faded, but the gents “public conveniences” are fabulous relic of the past. #Genealogy

On a Saturday morning in February I could take photos of the Victorian train & ferry terminal at Wemyss Bay with not a soul about, but in its heyday it would’ve seen thousands passing through on their way to Rothesay, a popular Victorian holiday destination on the Isle of Bute. #Genealogy

We've added new maps, including the pictured 1974 Ordnance Survey map of Loch Sionascaig & Suilven, to our website 🗺️   In these OS maps, footpaths and bridleways were shown with green dashed lines, woodland shown as a green stipple, and buildings shown with a black stipple 💚🖤