#familyhistory goes hand in hand with #localhistory. When a small industrial museum goes, we lose part of our history. #Kidderminster loses its #CarpetMuseum on 20 Dec and #Walsall’s #LeatherMuseum may go the same way. Support your museums and archives while you still have them.

Despite being called a museum, we estimate that 60-70% of our collection is in fact books and archive. We are one of two archives of Met history, the other being the National Archives, which took all Met central records until 2000. #ExploreYourArchive #EYAYourArchive

7 December 1907 | A French Jew, Leon Offenthal, was born in Paris. He worked in Morocco as a leather tanner and trader. In #Auschwitz from June 1942. No. 42388 He perished in the camp on 10 August 1942. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

The Rev Margoschis was the son of Polish-born Samuel Margoschis who moved to #Leamington after his 1838 Cheltenham marriage. He appears in the 1841 census as a bookseller living at what was then 19 Regent Street #OnePlaceWednesday leamingtonobserver.co.uk/news/free-cl...

A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database. An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️

If Trump can give Maduro a week to resign and leave Venezuela why can’t some country give Trump a week to resign and leave the U.S.

Also, you might pick up someone else’s research on them online, and accounts or letters and News cuttings of their story, to fill in gaps on your man’s story.

I do this quite a lot. I think it’s important to get the whole picture as much as possible, including the father and son killed alongside Luther McKechnie: https://menofworth.org.uk/luther-mckechnie/

I always do this and follow up the names to, for example, local newspapers. There are often letters or other info that give more detailed insight than a war diary could.

Browsing the CWGC database today by regiment and date of death it suddenly hit me that I could use it to fill in the names of those frustratingly unnamed OR casualties in war diary entries Not necessarily that precisely but a start /1 #Remembrance #familyhistory

Great news! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Oooh this is exciting 👇🏻 #FamilyHistory #Research #Genealogy

All researchers should think carefully when recommending #DNA tests to clients - doesn't always end well #Genealogy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Slightly annoyed to be dragged back from 1531 to talk about renewing my mobile phone contract #familyhistory #timetraveller

If you missed it yesterday, you can still see the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy webinar on researching railway ancestors. Huge thanks to @jessamycarlson.bsky.social for mentioning the Railway Work, Life & Death project! #FamilyHistory #Railway200 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUzb...

Two of my very earliest additions to my collection. A farmer & his wife. If only I knew who they were & what are the crops? Does anyone recognise them? #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

💒A wonderful happy #Wedding day! Another of my early additions, I have a separate collection of just Wedding pics through the years💒probably about 1500+now🤔 This is a great one, do you recognise them? Are they your family?💒 #OldPostcards #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory 💒

Lots of fantastic online talks being run by #FamilyHistory Societies all the time. Have a look at some upcoming ones here: www.familyhistoryfederation.com/news-and-eve...

1. Our Next Help Desk Day is on Wednesday 24th September 10.00am - 2.00pm at Sprotbrough Library. You will be able to access Find My Past and Ancestry websites for free plus the 1921 census for free. #familyhistory #genealogy

Want to find out how to start your family tree? Come along to our beginners’ #FamilyHistory session at Central Library on Thursday 25 September at 2pm to find out how to use the library's free online and physical resources. Book your place by emailing [email protected]

Cap off the week with some #familyhistory tunes. Our digital editor came up with a playlist to listen to while researching your #genealogy brick walls. Do you have any songs that you would add? Help us create a part 3!

#genealogy #military #NapoleonicWar

Have been revisiting daughter's Scots who went to Quebec recently Found an ancestor of theirs one George Burray who turns up in the British military records as Barry, Berry, Burry. Luckily he was a Chelsea pensioner but with 3 separate attestations 1799 into the Elgin Fencibles /1

At 10:45 on 18 October, Peter Higgenbotham will cover the evolution of the poor relief system from 1601 to 1948, looking at the development and operation of workhouses, the lives of their inmates, and the various records available relating to them. More detail: bit.ly/3Vd7NMS #genealogy

1. Just to let you all know the Archives is back up and running. We will be having a Help Desk at the Archives on Tuesday 19th August 10.00am -2.00pm. Sorry it is short notice but I only found out yesterday. #familyhistory

To water their horses while at the front, the British were equipped with long stretches of canvas which,by means of two rows of wooden stakes, could be quickly converted into troughs, rolled up when finished and moved to the next location. #WarHorseWednesday #FirstWorldWar 📷 Carnoy 1916. IWM Q1102.

It's #OnePlaceWednesday! Join in by using the hashtag to post, at any time today, about #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Questions? Ask them! OPS updates, resources, blog posts, links, pictures? Share them! About One-Place Studies🔗 | Registered Studies🔗 | Join Us🔗

Myth Buster! What’s a myth you believed was true? Comment it below! #Genealogy #SurnameStudies 

This week’s spotlight is shining on our friends at @findmypast.bsky.social! 💜   They have shared a lovely collection about the 1915 National Register! If you'd like to have a read, check out their page! #Genealogy #explore

Come and meet us at the Oxfordshire Family History Society Family History Fair🔗, which will be held on Saturday 25 October 2025! And to find out how you and/or your #OnePlaceStudy can be a part of our stand at the Fair, check out our blog🔗. #OnePlaceWednesday

We're proud to share that 24 APG members are speaking at the 45th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy! Don’t miss their incredible sessions—and be sure to stop by the APG table in the exhibit hall to say hello! #IAJGS #Genealogy

#GenChat Highly recommended for doing FAN club / cluster research: The Family Tree Problem Solver by Marsha Hoffman Rising. Available as pbook or ebook. One of my earliest (and best) #genealogy book purchases. Check your library's catalog. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/631070...

⛱️Stepping out on the way to the beach 🏖️ Great pic, was thinking maybe Weymouth because of the clock🤔building with columns? 🤔 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory ⛱️

Reviewing my early Scottish research - talking 20 years ago when Scotlandspeople was new - and had an epiphany moment re 1841 census and missing husband - why did I assume he was dead when he was a fisherman? He could have been at sea! Duh!! #genealogy #fisherman

If you weren't able to attend my webinar on Irish Quakers yesterday, it's free to watch for a week: familytreewebinars.com/webinar/why-... #AncestryHour #GenHour #IrishGenealogy

🚨 The Suffolk parish registers will be online 6 days earlier than advertised - the latest update says they’ll be released on Ancestry on 8 August! 🥳 That’s my weekend sorted out! Great news for my #Sudbourne #OnePlaceStudy #AncestryHour #OnePlaceWednesday #GenHour

I have written articles and a blog about researching women in #WW1. It is NOT ‘just’ about nurses but also women in services,the home front as workers or family members. take a look! You never know! #AncestryHour #GenHour historicalclues.blogspot.com/2023/

Today I am examining wage books from the Danish navy from 1745 to 1760. I was happy to see that the 1760 book has a name index. If you can read it, you might wonder why it is sorted by first names. That was common practice due to the use of patronymic surnames. #genealogy #familyhistory #Denmark

Wonder who this family were? So many areas to choose from! Williams & Williams were a firm of Victorian photographers with studios in various locations in #England & #Wales Does anyone recognise them? #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

Researching my GGgrandfather's half sibling George Creamer Inveterate thief at 12 4 years Industrial School now it looks like he drowned at 32 - 2 years after his marriage and because his father drowned himself in that river 20 years earlier I am fearing the worst #newspapers #genealogy

New Zealand in the Korean War #militaryhistory #familyhistory www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial...

Canada in the Korean War #militaryhistory #familyhistory www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembran...

#Australia in the Korean War #militaryhistory #familyhistory

I hadn't realised that so many nations responded to the UN call #military #familyhistory #Korea

The Royal British Legion - remembrance of the Korean War #military #familyhistory #genealogy www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved...

Please review new #genealogy books you buy

Here’s our list of courses to choose from. Have a look to see if there’s something you’d like to learn. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #DistanceLearning #OnlineCourses #GenealogyCourses

Looking at another facet of my family history - the " diaspora" from Bedfordshire of my Creamer ancestors greatly aided by the railway in the 1890s They mainly moved between Beds Cambs and Hunts before then but my lot from ag labs became mobile - Soldiers, Sailors, Policemen, Railwaymen #genealogy

🇮🇳 Explore Life in British India 📅 Thurs 21 Aug | 🕑 2–5pm BST 📍 SoG Library or Online 🎟️ portal.sog.org.uk/Ev... 2 expert talks with Richard Morgan on crops, tea planters & Indian directories + archive display & summer drinks social! #Genealogy #BritishIndia #SoGEvents