How about sisters who were Sisters? toomuchbrudders.com/2023/05/07/t... #familyhistory #genealogy #religiouslife

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Shipping Instead of the usual words, I’ll leave you with this poster from my local railway station! #Genealogy #Writing

I never met my grandmother's sisters as they died before I was born. However, I was named after her eldest sister, 'Betty' - and there are strange parallels between my life and hers. I also wrote a bit about Betty in this blog, if anyone's interested: 👇 elizabethjbond.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/h...

My first Curious Descendants piece included a picture of my sisters & that was also my first blog piece, reusing content to practice using Wordpress jenniferirvinghart.wordpress.com/2021/09/02/s... And I started 52 ancestors one year with sisters jenniferirvinghart.wordpress.com/2022/01/10/f...

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Sisters ✍️ A family with many sisters ✍️ Loving sisters ✍️ Sisters that took the same / opposite path in life ✍️ Sisters that fell out ✍️ Non biological sisters, adoptees, steps or friends ✍️ The Sisterhood #Genealogy #Writing

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tall ✍️ Tall tales, proved true or false? ✍️ Tall ancestors, is it in your genes? ✍️ Height restricted professions ✍️ Standing tall with pride #Genealogy #Writing

"So many people have taken these DNA tests that the age of genetic anonymity is over". Quote from @jennykleeman.bsky.social on radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... on podcasting family histories. I skipped back to make sure I got it right as it is exactly my thinking. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

What a fantastic idea. If you only read one thing #Genealogy today, let it be this!! 👇👇

Latest #GenealogyStories word is: Plumbing ✍️ Evolution of the “bathroom” ✍️ Sewers, aquaducts, cesspits, septic tanks, natural water filters, water sources, rivers, lakes, wells… ✍️ Plumbing ancestors ✍️ Pipeline lines, blockages and clogs in your genealogy research #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

Here are my great grandparents Dennis and Mary Lenihan and my great uncle John in the 1920 census. John died before his third birthday because there was no vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough).

If you are very lucky local archives might have vaccination records. A government report published in 1880 has names of defaulters prosecuted in E & W courts & penalties imposed. Nothing similar in Scotland or Ireland

Here's an interesting census entry. Listed here is a 64 year old gardener, named James Phipps - the same person who was inoculated with cowpox as a child by Edward Jenner, thereby paving the way for vaccinations and the eventual eradication of smallpox. #history #genealogy #vaccination

Absolutely! It’s why I chose to name my recent episode for @familyhistpod.bsky.social ‘The Invisible’. My GGM pretty much disappeared off the radar when she was admitted to a mental hospital. My research added 30 years to her life that was previously unknown.

Huge yes to this! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Oh, very definitely. They are my main focus. "Wid Swinden", my 7xG Grandmother had just three works "Wid Swinden Buried", but then the wonderful @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social wrote a whole poem natashahouseman.co.uk/wid-swinden-... #AncestryHour, creating a whole new set of stories.

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Vaccination (inspired by shared post). ✍️ Early vaccinated ancestors, advocates and protestors ✍️ Ancestors that died from conditions now vaccinated against ✍️ Pioneers in immunology ✍️ Vaccination records #Genealogy #Writing

I tried out a couple of different tools on my phone & iPad for this prompt. Quite a few train tracks in my favourites 😀 several of my ancestors were active in delegations to parliament to get the train to their town in rural NSW. Success coming many years after they had moved elsewhere

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tracks ✍️ Wrong side of the tracks ✍️ On track! ✍️ Train tracks (rail or braces!) ✍️ Tracking back ✍️ Tracking source citations! ✍️ Off the beaten track #Genealogy #Writing

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Prison ✍️ What is a crime? Now and then. ✍️ Local prison ✍️ Incarcerated ancestors ✍️ Prisons of the mind ✍️ Rehabilitation ✍️ Prison and Art ✍️ Punishment and reward Inspired by Shepton Mallet prison day trip (highly recommended!) #Genealogy #Writing

I spent #OnePlaceWednesday researching local beech trees blue bells and spires today

#GenealogyStories prompt: Sunshine ✍️ A ray of sunshine ✍️ Make hay when the sun shines ✍️ Everything under the sun ✍️ A place in the sun ✍️ Summer holidays ✍️ A sunny disposition ✍️ Suncream and tanning ✍️ An Indian summer #Writing #Genealogy

I thought you should see this, Natalie. 😊 @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social

There is much I could say on the subject of rabbits, from seeing them prepared by my mum (the smell!) to talk of "breeding like.." in the village as I was one of 12 children. Currently, I am tickled pink to have received a book of my uncle's memories inc. Grandad ferreting and selling 🐰🐰🐰 widely.

Here is a photo of my grandad, Ray (on the right) with some of the Fuller family’s Dutch rabbits. The rabbits were bred for showing but money was tight, so any that didn’t make the grade went in the pot! Ray’s brother, Tim, wrote about his impoverished childhood: www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:M...

#AtoZChallenge2025 My blog post challenge yesterday was the letter S and so I wrote a snippet about early schooling in Cuckfield. #OnePlaceATOZ cuckfieldcompendium.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-z-...

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Rabbit ✍️ Rabbit breeders and clubs ✍️ Pet bunnies ✍️ More rabbit than Sainsbury’s ✍️ Breeding like rabbits 😆 ✍️ Rabbit pie ✍️ Peter Rabbit & other childhood stories from the same era ✍️ Poachers and game keepers ✍️ Rabbits and pest control #Genealogy #Writing

If you follow @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social you will find she occasionally post writing prompts. I am finding them very helpful. I have been saving them in a Word document so I can go back and choose different ones. #GenealogyStories #AncestryHour

This week I've been pondering again on sharing photos online. The thing is, I love finding family photos I haven't seen and I do want to share on online spaces in return. But then photos get lifted and shared elsewhere without reference to where they came from. #AncestryHour 1/4

Anyone fancy joining in with this CAL? Just ordered the kit from Delta Wool (£30, free delivery sirdar.com/summer-picni... They had me at strawberries 😍. Will organise a #StitchAndStory for that week. #Crochet

This batch also includes Rachel Virtue Barnes, the prison warden / matron I researched. I’ve had to put aside my second woman until I’ve finished my assignments. But I must emphasise she’s not forgotten!

Delighted to see the details of “my woman” Mary Small up. Finished with more questions than answered but a thoroughly enjoyable puzzle & I hope others might be able to add to my research. #Genealogy #Writing

Of course today’s #GenealogyStories prompt has to be Easter: ✍️ Easter for Christian ancestors ✍️ End of suffering, forgiveness, fresh beginnings and rebirth ✍️ Spring celebrations & traditions ✍️ Egg hunts and egg decorating ✍️ Sheep farming ancestors or lamb dinners! #Genealogy #Writing

Another day, another memory written up as part of my #GenealogyStories. Using @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social prompt of "dogs" and thanks to @mishjholman.bsky.social for writing about Upmister where one memory instantly sprang to mind. sussexheritage.blogspot.com/2025/04/dogs...

Also wanted to do an #AncestryHour shout out for #GenealogyStories by @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social. I used to love this on the other site and so glad it's back. Hmm, now divide, is that back to getting hold of my 3xG Grandfather's brother's maths books which I know exist.....

#GenealogyStories Not so much of a story as a writing of memories about my Nan. #FamilyHistory I chose the writing prompt of "9" sussexheritage.blogspot.com/2025/04/9.html

This will make me research and write a piece on the Military Medal. Just back from Cassino where Gt Uncle died and was awarded MM had he been of higher rank he would have got a MC . Bravery exactly the same but the lesser award was given to soldiers not commissioned. 😡

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Divide ✍️ A divided family, or population. ✍️ Division of land, property or fields ✍️ Divided opinions, which research is “right” ✍️ Divided opinions on #FamilyHistory practices or methods ✍️ Divisive techniques employed by people in power #Writing #Genealogy

Loving these library answers. Do you use your local library? #Genealogy

My great-aunt, Teresa Simpson, worked for Oldham library services for 44 years until she retired in 1947 when she held the post of Director of Library Services - at the time, the only woman ever appointed to a chief official's post in Oldham.

I’ve got a soft spot for my 2x g grandfather because he decided in 1904 that a school library would be a good idea for the school where he was the Principal. The way it was reported in the paper it seemed to be a novel idea for a local primary school. I loved playing libraries as a kid.

Latest #GenealogyStories prompt is: Library ✍️ Libraries in your ancestors’ home towns ✍️ Library services for #Genealogy ✍️ Library architecture, funding and history ✍️ Curating your own history library ✍️ Ancestors that were Book sellers, book binders, publishers, authors, librarians etc #Writing

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Nose ✍️ Prominent nosed ancestors ✍️ Nosey people ✍️ On the nose! ✍️ Rubbing your nose in it ✍️ Cut off your nose to spite your face ✍️ Have a nose for something ✍️ Keep your nose clean! ✍️ No skin off my nose! #Writing #Genealogy

#Frugal absolutely sums up my late maternal Gran. She knitted jumpers for us, regularly mended clothes, used a tea-bag twice and always washed up yogurt pots to use as plant pots, and washed plastic bags to re-use. And then there was homemade jam and wine … 🍷 Hic! 😂 #Writing #Genealogy

Latest #GenealogyStories prompt: Frugal ✍️ Ways your ancestors tried to save money ✍️ Make do and mend ✍️ Recycling and re-purposing ✍️ Home made food, crafts, gifts ✍️ The rise of branded goods ✍️ Stingy ancestors and decedent ancestors! ✍️ Genealogy money saving tips! #Writing #Genealogy

Just for fun, I thought I'd take a look in the birth/marriage/death records to see if there was ever anyone called 'Mickey Mouse'. Apparently so - and he married a woman called 'Min(n)ie'. I reckon that's either the biggest coincidence ever or the couple deliberately changed their names. #Genealogy

Thank you to everyone who tuned into our new podcast and left such sweet feedback! Your kind words, reviews and ideas mean the world to us. If you missed it: here's episode 1 of Absolute Units, the official MERL podcast! merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt: Mouse ✍️ Mice or men? ✍️ When the cats away… ✍️ Quiet as a mouse ✍️ Vermin management, at home and on scale ✍️ As poor as a church mouse #Genealogy #Writing

Oh... I'm rather partial to this story from Kevin Fergueson as a guest for Projectkin last year: Three generations of Californians in the Gemello family and their story in the wine industry — here. #FamilyHistory.

"I'm not a good writer" is a refrain that runs through my head constantly. But writing up #FamilyHistory stories has helped me improve. Especially with the wonderful #CuriousDescendents club run by @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social #AncestryHour

#GenealogyStories prompt: Wine ✍️ Wine making ✍️ Who drank it and where? ✍️ Homemade wines ✍️ Taking communion ✍️ Wine for celebrations ✍️ Too much wine #Genealogy #Writing