🎉 Thank you for making WikiTree Week 2025 unforgettable! Your enthusiasm made our 17th anniversary special. ⏰ Reminder: Symposium presentations expire Dec 7th! Full thank-you & links: www.wikitree.com/g2g/1960668 #WikiTree #Genealogy #WikiTreeWeek

NEW BLOG This 4th blog from the St. John's Square, Wakefield features Lillian Jane Hewitt - 13 St. John's Square, Wakefield. The story of Lillian Hewitt's journey from Brighton to 13 St. John's Square, Wakefield via Derby. #OnePlaceStudy www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk/post/one-pla...

A wee thought, as always on this date, for the ten men from the 38 addresses in Scotland Street, two of them from 10 Scotland Street, who died in WW1. Researching their stories for the book , was heart-rending. Unbelievable waste.

Members! Our next webinar is on Tuesday November 11th, a very appropriate date as the catalyst for Jane’s #OnePlaceStudy of Batley St Mary of the Angels RC parish was the church War Memorial. Our Events page has details of all our scheduled webinars. Join us and join in! #OnePlaceWednesday

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

We are so lucky in Loughborough, my #OnePlaceStudy to be able to celebrate and commemorate on Remembrance Day in such a unique way. A short blogpost on a memorable occasion. lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2025/11/reme...

Teigh (pronounced 'tee'), Rutland, has what at first appears to be a war memorial. But in fact it is one of the 50-odd parishes dubbed 'Thankful Villages' by Arthur Mee in his 'The Enchanted Land', 1936, which got back all the people they sent to the First World War. 1/2

For King and Country is an ongoing project that transcribes war memorials located in Toronto schools and other organizations. The database contains more than 50,000 names of those who served in the First and Second World Wars. Learn more: torontofamilyhistory.org/kingandcount... #remembranceweek

For Remembrance Sunday a repost of my blog post about the WW1 experiences of my great granddad from Melrose in the Scottish Borders. vivsancestry.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/r...

Continuing with the Devon series in the run up to my event on 13th @thebookery.bsky.social, bird place-name of the day 110 is: GOSFORD. Straightforward this one and the name hasn’t changed at all from the Old English: gos + ford. ‘Ford where geese can cross’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Correct link ruthsiddall.co.uk/Walks/WarMem...

Rhona Wyer shares her memories “I remember when that figure was close to the Town Hall... I felt overawed to stand below and look up at it and some men would take their hats off as they passed. I saw two women together there once and one was crying and the other was just with her..." #colwynbay #WW2

suewilkes.blogspot.com/2025/11/scar... #janeausten250 #industrialrevolution

Two grand-uncles served in #WW1. A low number for 3 others had emigrated, another 4 were in farming in #Orkney, a reserved occupation, and 1 a docker in Glasgow, another reserved occupation. Of those who served Victor Sclater did not return. 1/2 janealogy.co.uk/blog/somme-1...

Nether Winchendon roll of honour. St. Nicholas Church, Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire. First World War. #LestWeForget

War Memorial at St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. Currently updating the story of one of the men mentioned. #Remembrance #StMaryBourne #OnePlaceStudy

On #RemembranceSunday we invite you to use and share our resources on Women, the Great War, and the Vote. These resources consider how the war affected women’s lives and the longer term campaigns for women’s suffrage. womenshistoryscotland.org/resources/re...

The #Armistice Service at #Helmsdale War Memorial on #RemembranceDay, 1945. It was conducted by Rev. Dr A. B. Scott of St John's Church. Wreaths were laid by local branches of the British Legion and W. Macdonald of Portgower played a lament on the pipes [source: Highland Folk Museum]

Remembering the men of Waters Upton, one of my #OnePlaceStudy parishes, who made the ultimate sacrifice in #WW1. We will remember them.

Remembering the village men lost in wars of the past. We will never forget them ❤️❤️❤️ #Kelsall #Cheshire #RemembranceSunday

Came to us via @signsthereading.bsky.social - much appreciated. Always interested in graves of railway staff accidentally killed, especially where the incident is mentioned on the headstone/grave site.

This looks like it might be really useful for anyone interested in building history and recording buildings.

Take the time remember the members of the Home Forces who were killed on active duty in the UK during the Second World War. Despite comprising in the region of 1.8 million soldiers of the Regular and Territorial Army, and Commonwealth and Free Forces, their sacrifice goes largely unacknowledged.

A short thread for Remembrance Sunday. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. During the First World War, over eight million troops from many different nations passed through Southampton, the country’s number one embarkation port during the conflict. 1/6

Tracing Your Belfast Ancestors www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your... #genealogy

Mr Cross has presented a paper on the Amazon district of South America to the quarterly meeting of the Bicester and Claydon Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses Association. #1875OPS #OnePlaceStudies

#BoatFamilies and the First World War - finding these young men who served is proving difficult but so far I have found 20 young men who made the ultimate sacrifice. Their stories will be told, for now I'm just remembering their names. #OnePlaceStudies #RemembranceSunday

Waiting by Judy Boyt, the memorial to the working horses of Liverpool, is one of my favourites.

New #ForgottenWomenFriday call for volunteers www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/new-for...

Autumn in St. John's Square, Wakefield. #OnePlaceStudy

Two weeks to go! 🐴🚂🛳️ #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite.

In our #1832AtoZ R is also for our Resources page. This has links to many free to access resources for 19th century British history, from Hansard debates to maps. We’ve checked all the links today, but if anything is missing or broken, let us know! victoriancommons.wordpress.com/resources

📚 New Member How-To #6: Be a Successful WikiTreer starts in 1 hour! Final session! Learn the art of collaboration and how to work successfully with others at 10am EST. Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKW_... #WikiTreeWeek

Just a quick note to point the way to two Inverclyde Remembrance Resources. www.inverclydeww1.org and www.cartsburnpublishing.com/inverclyde-a...

Street of the Week: Blackscroft The area around this street was feued to a Mr Paton Black in 1540. By 1581 the area was known as Blackscroft. Paton Black was a wright, and did work on St Mary’s Parish Church in the 1550s.

The first use of X-rays in surgery was in Birmingham in 1896, just over 10 years before John Zigomala broke his arm and needed this pioneering technology. This illustration from his mothers journals shows the before and after X-rays and his recovery. #Internationaldayofradiology #IDoR2025

Washing Day in #Skye, late 19th century [photo: George Washington Wilson; source: Getty Open Content Program]

Ahead of #RemembranceDay, some of our Railway Work, Life & Death blog posts touch upon the impact war had upon the railway industry & railway workers. We've posted about the impact of the First World War here: www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/tag/first-wo...

It is with bittersweet feeling that I’m announcing the end of #genchat as we know it as of December 12 on Bluesky and 13 on Mastodon. There are several reasons for this:

In one of our latest blogs, Jacky Cooper shares the ways in which Nazeing History Workshop has shared the wartime history of the village. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-nazeing... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

Lovely Lavenham in Suffolk 🤩… always exciting to have a wander around and marvel at the wealth of timber framed buildings ❤️ It often feels like you might have accidentally strayed onto a film set! A photo thread…

Great Ormond Street Hospital sent 1906 to Hugh Miller, Edinburgh Thought this would interest you, see where I am. You will see name of hospital written above the doorway in the picture on this PC. Have just come in from a delightful walk. Am about to go on duty. #PostedInThePast

National Archive launches search for Irish people who are 100 years or over to tell their stories: www.irishstar.com/news/ireland...

The recording from Drew Von Hasselbach's presentation of The Dead from Down the Street is available on our website until about November 25. A timely presentation for #RemembranceWeek: torontofamilyhistory.org/toronto-bran... #lestweforget

The 1921 #census of England and Wales is now available at MyHeritage @myheritageofficial.bsky.social, but it appears that (as is the case at Ancestry) the transcriptions are those created by Findmypast. #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies

NEW BLOG This 4th blog from the St. John's Square, Wakefield features Lillian Jane Hewitt - 13 St. John's Square, Wakefield. The story of Lillian Hewitt's journey from Brighton to 13 St. John's Square, Wakefield via Derby. #OnePlaceStudy www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk/post/one-pla...

Slavery and colonial trail to be launched in Glasgow www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name

Governesses in your #OnePlaceStudy? Find out more about how they found work, what that work entailed, and what their pay and conditions were like.

The committee which organised the Belgian Flag Day in #Stornoway and across #Lewis on this day in 1914. This sale of small paper Belgian flags and rosettes raised £94 12s 3d (approx. £9,500 today) to support Belgian refugees.  [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/1/18]