I can't really be bothered to hunt out a photo for Throwback Thursday so I instead looked back through my LJ to see what I was doing in June 2007 (the first year of the blog). It turns out I was reading history:

"I read The Claycross Calamities by Terry Judge largely because my interest in genealogy has revealed that a number of my ancestors were ( Read more... )

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I read Trends in School Design entirely because it was written by my grandfather. It is a fairly slim volume published by Macmillan in 1972 as part of The Anglo-American Primary School Project. Small abuse the University of Liverpool's online access to JSTOR netted me Malcolm Seaborne's review* of A `Golden Age' of School Building? by Stuart ( Read more... )

Everyone is terribly coy about the subject. Wikipedia, for instance, just says it ended ( Read more... )

It transpires that my great, great, great, great grandfather's brother, German Buxton, managed to get himself transported to Australia for his participation in the Pentrich Uprising which John Stevens rather grandly terms "England's Last Revolution". Being the particular kind of geeky person that I am this has naturally lead to a fair amount of ( Read more... )

On Genes Reunited there is a (very useful) tool for matching up people in your family tree with people in other people's family tree. So, you know, "here are all the other trees containing an Aquila Slatcher born in 1843" which is terribly handy if your ancestor is called Aquila Slatcher and less handy if they are called Sarah Smith ( Read more... )

It turns out that one branch of B's family come from Erbistock, near Wrexham.

I thought certain people might like to know.

Late last night I ended up making contact with a second cousin once removed who has traced one branch of the family back to 1090. This is quite exciting even taking into account the fact that conventional wisdom in genealogy is that most people who claim their family go back to the conquest are indulging in a wish-fulfilment fantasy. I've ( Read more... )

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Most of us appear to agree on the identity of Ggrandpa Lloyd. However bunn has suggested a comparison of noses:


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