If you're planning a trip to Brompton Cemetery, London, take a look at my post on issues I found re: dissenter graves & marked location on the cemetery map. www.linkedin.com/posts/catrio...

@marplecat.bsky.social now speaking at the @strathgenealogy.bsky.social Scottish family history event today - great day, lots of fun! #genealogy

I'm preaching to the choir here but if you have a newbie interested in searching the #1926census, I've done a quick video explainer. Please share. #Speirgorm #Skystorians #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy youtu.be/6viUgy7vUsk...

Less than 4 wks now to the intermediate Scottish Family History course at Strathclyde uni. Join myself, @acspring.bsky.social & @chrismpaton.bsky.social for talks on a wide range of topics to help with your research of your Scottish ancestors. Registration now open www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

As Alison says, do sign up for the intermediate Scottish Family History course if you're going to be in the Glasgow area in early May. Look forward to seeing you there.

Pubs we never knew. Macpherson's at 165 Pleasance in 1927 shortly before demolition in a slum clearance scheme. Allegedly one of the finest the southside ever knew. The windows advertise Disher's legendary 10 Guinea Ale in bottles, at 11.2% ABV it was quite the tipple and also came in pints

The book is Built Heritage of the Temperance Movement by Andrew Davison. How the billiard temperance halls of Manchester evolved into some of the pubs we have today. 👇 BBC News - The alcohol-free Victorian venues transformed into pubs - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Between Christmas & birthday, I’ve been very lucky to receive quite a few books off my wish list. One or two other gifts from my family seem to have a theme to them too… 😂

Birthday celebrations for me today. I’m reliably informed there was serious snow on the ground on the day that I was born. While there is substantial snow in the north of Scotland today, not so much around the central belt, despite the weather warnings. This is my earliest photo I have as a baby.

The best thing about Scotland in the cold is the gritters network with the punniest named gritters www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

This morning at the Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church on Argyle Street in Glasgow. Designed by J.T. Emmett and completed by John Honeyman, this Gothic style church was built in the 1850s. #glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #church #argylestreet

New London Road Cemetery Chelmsford

The first new stories of 2026 are now available - 7 Ulster Linen Workers #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #SocialHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/new-sto...

Now that these works have entered the public domain, put them to good use in our annual Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2... Submit your short film by 11:59pm PST on January 7.

Happy New Year! It was the last day of the festive holidays in Scotland yesterday. I enjoyed a walk in the Ayrshire sunshine & discovered a little bit of industrial history that employed some smoke & mirrors style deception. #Genealogy #History www.facebook.com/share/p/1DxD...

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.