Beautiful spring day.. so I’ve visited a peaceful place I’ve never been before. Can you guess where? #genealogy #ancestry

Do you have photos of these WW2 soldiers? #manchester #salford #cheshire www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Database Sizes—March 2026 More than 54 million DNA kits are available for genealogical matching!

Lovely new logo, designed by a PRC student. Thanks Jim!

£37,694 - £46,049 a year (pro-rata for part-time working). Deadline 10 April.

🆕PopulationsPast.org now has cause- and age-specific mortality rates, and age- and sex-specific net migration rates! For example, in 1871 external causes of death (accidents, violence and suicide) among young adults was highest in industrial and fishing areas www.populationspast.org/vio1544/1871...

My #OnePlaceWednesday update. Still waiting for the last 6 of the wills ordered last year for 2 of my #OnePlaceStudies (3 each for Fawsley & Waters Upton). Following Ancestry’s addition of #Shropshire electoral registers I’ve been busy transcribing, and adding new pages to my Waters Upton website.

Our next #FamilyHistory Show will be in St Ives, Cambridgeshire on Saturday 18th April 2026. There will be stallholders, talks, helpdesks and lots of people to talk to and help with research. Book now! www.fhf-reallyuseful.com

Welcome to “the future”.

See you there!

The six-year-old has informed me that they were learning about kings and queens yesterday and there was a song. A song, I asked? Inevitably, some of @gregjenner.bsky.social's best (and certainly catchiest), work.

Watch @gwilymsmum.bsky.social 's thoughtful story about a woman following her husband to war. An offering for #InternationalWomensDay sit back and enjoy. www.fewforgottenwomen.com/iwd26

Have Your Say: 2026 Supporters’ Consultation Now Open - Historic Buildings & Places. Members, supporters and everyone interested in heritage are invited to take part in the 2026 Supporters’ Consultation. hbap.org.uk/have-your-sa...

Did you know that there are three kinds of DNA? Genetic genealogy expert Debbie Kennett explains the difference between autosomal DNA, Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA - and how they can help your family history research 🧬

I’ve just had a spooky moment with some 1891 Census records. Pleased to see some clear, well-formed handwriting for a change, it suddenly dawned on me that I’d seen this hand before. I checked the first page of the section and there it was: Mr H’s GGF was the enumerator! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

Family History Societies survive because of volunteers. Every hour given helps protect records, knowledge, and heritage. With just a little time you can get involved in many different ways. Find your local society and ask about how you can help? www.familyhistoryfederation.com/find-a-society

Check out our Free Online Resources page for #FamilyHistory, including the Manorial Documents Register. www.exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk/free-online-...

Thrilled to unexpectedly hear someone tell the story of my very likely relative, Jeremiah Newell in a talk, who was said to haunt Potters Lane, Ely. I told them later about him 👻 #FamilyHistory #ancestryhour

On 7th March, International Woman’s Day, the @pborowomenshist.bsky.social group will at Peterborough Museum talking about the women who made the city

Victorian law: women were incubators. Before 1839: Fathers had ABSOLUTE custody rights. Mothers had NONE. Children belonged to him. Small reforms 1839 & 1873: → Mothers could petition → BUT only if they proved 'moral fitness' → Fathers still presumed fit tinyurl.com/3faz9fah #VictorianHistory

CW: Victorian medical misogyny Diagnosis for disobedient women: hysteria. 'Treatment': forced institutionalisation, sedation, loss of rights. When Mary pursued divorce, she risked 'mad' label. Victorian medicine pathologised resistance. helenparkerdrabble.com/coming-soon-... #VictorianHistory

I have two properly documented 4C1R who are attending #RootsTech. Almost all the other suggested connections are based on errors in the big tree.

Most of mine are useless to me bc they are through my great-grandmother’s adoptive parents and not her birth family. It’s a big reason I find FamilySearch’s tree so frustrating to deal with. I have the same issue with my paternal grandmother whose bio-dad I indentified.

4C1R is my closest too Of my 298 many are 'imaginative' at best. The split between my grandparents is v uneven 8 157 1 156 which doesn't add up to the total!!!🤷‍♀️

Obituaries are either a genealogical goldmines or “Mr. Smith died some time ago, survived by relatives” and that’s it. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

My closest related #RootsTech attendees are two 3rd Cousins, 1x Removed. One based in Canada, the other in the UK.

I’ve been transcribing the 1841 census for my #oneplacestudy of Haverfordwest in Wales. Looking at Barn Street in St. Martin’s Parish where my 3x great grandmother Mary Taylor lived. #oneplacewednesday @oneplacestudies.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/haverfor...

Enjoying the L S Lowry Unheard Tapes documentary - wonderfully lip-synced by Ian and Annabel, and a fascinating window on life around industrial Manchester. Great to see Michala Hulme too! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #history #lowry

🚨There is still time to apply🚨 We are recruiting an Archivist (Physical Collections) – Maternity Cover, to join our archive team here at Explore York Libraries and Archvies. Closing date is 5pm, Friday, 27th February. Find out more about the role and apply here:

About my great-great-great-great-grandfather Paolo Sarpi (no, not that Paolo Sarpi) and the Italian system of foundling wheels, where babies were commonly abandoned

You should join a family history society - they exist for your benefit: sharing, participating and mutual support. Read more here: www.familyhistoryfederation.com/join-fhs

Looking forward to this Saturday's @uophistory.bsky.social Open Experience Day! History staff Katy Gibbons, Lee Sartain & Mike Esbester will share course details & offer a sample seminar. Plus current students Sofia & Izzy will welcome guests & answer questions! www.port.ac.uk/study/open-d...

APG members, give your profile a polish. Join Fiona Brooker for a free members-only webinar on strengthening your Association of Professional Genealogists directory profile and attracting the right clients. Details & registration: members.apgen.org/Calendar/mor... #APG

How does genetic genealogy solve crimes + how is it used in crime fiction? Join @nathandylangoodwin.bsky.social for an online talk exploring investigative genetic genealogy and how it shapes the Venator Cold Case series. 📅 23 Feb 2026 | 19:30–20:30 | Online Book portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...

Little known fact: there’s a Major Christmas in March* #genealogy #xmas #ancestry #FamilyHistory *the Cambridgeshire town.

Yeah, I have a bunch of Canada ancestry on one line and some enterprising user on FamilySearch added a maple leaf as the profile picture to each and every one. It’s both not really conveying much information and tedious at the same time.

Now this would be a good usecase for AI. Let AI determine whether something is a photo or a flag/clipart, and only show hints to actual photos.

Discover the story: 8 must-have family history tools for better storytelling vist.ly/4rs4i

NO. #genealogy #MyHeritage #ancestry #FamilyHistory

Welcome to #GenHour! Sorry I can't e with you this evening, but I'll look forward to catching up with everyone's news later!

Read all about it – for free, but only until February 16th! A wee #OnePlaceWednesday reminder about free access to digitised newspapers at Findmypast, a great resource for #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudies.

Battling with Census Returns If you’ve ever traced a family through census records, you may have hit a confusing moment: the same household, the same street, but a different house number? Or the same house number and neighbours, but a completely different street name? Did the family move? Did the…

#EarlyModern 🗃️ Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think. academic.oup.com/past/article...

The Luther Random Insult Generator was, as ever, a hit in my Reformation class this morning. ergofabulous.org/luther/?

In 2026 we celebrate our 21st Birthday. Join us in the first of our events in July 2026, a week of webinars with friends of Pharos on the theme 'The Ones Who Got Away'! Details: www.pharostutors.com/webinars Booking opens soon! #WatchThisSpace #FamilyHistory #GenealogyTalks #OnlineTalks

Archivists! A plea! Please think through your reference numbers. I’m been giggling like a nine year old all afternoon as I photographed the B/UM collection.

Don't you just love it when you're doing some research and the item coincidently states the very same historic day and month that you're currently on. Just catalogued an inventory from 6th February 1724.

This week, at their AGM, I was officially elected Archivist of The Littleport Society. I've been working for a few years on cataloguing, digitising, and building their browsable online catalogue (so far, consisting of 4,467 items). Loving it! www.littleportsociety.org.uk/catalogue #archives

I've just dropped my @myheritageofficial.bsky.social DNA test into the mail. Let's see how this one goes :) #genealogy #DNA #ancestry #FamilyHistory #DNATesting

#GenHour I've discovered the secret of making more wills appear! You have to be too busy to look at them.