That is my understanding too.
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That is my understanding too.
Excellent info sheet! I’ve saved it. Thank you. One never knows where in the world it’ll spring up next.
Does/did respair share the same root as respite?
Major John Miles Burton RA was killed in action in Myanmar on 7.1.1944. His son, Gavin Miles Burton, was just short of his second birthday.
Their stories here on PassersbyRemember, my blog for war strays.
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Died at his sister’s home in Leyborne Park, Kew, while on short leave to visit her and John, his infant nephew. Sigurd fell ill on John’s third birthday, and died 2 days, later on 29.11.1918. Death reg. suggested this was a consequence of dysentery caught in 1915”.
Returning a favour to the #LondonScottish by researching one of its men. S Bernts, a Norwegian soldier, an architect, who served with British forces in the first decade of the 20th century, in the South West Africa Campaign in 1914 and 1915 and in 1/14 London Scottish until the end of the war.
You might want to consider this announcement if you have used #23andMe for your #DNA
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Title page of a leather bound book. Ane godlie dreame, compylit in Scottish meter be M. M. gentelvvoman in Culros, at the requeist of her freindes, by Elizabeth Melville, Lady Colville. Published Edinburgh 1603 by Robert Charteris.
The first Scottish woman who saw her work in print in her lifetime was Elizabeth Melville author of Ane Godlie Dreame published in Scots in 1603. On show in a free exhibition at @natlibscot.bsky.social
#HerStory #skystorians #Edinburgh #🗃️ #📚
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Really helpful tactics, especially the first! Exactly what i need to prioritise…
Noooooo! I didn’t. 🙏
“I’d rather be alone telling the truth than with many following a lie.”
—Denver Riggelman, member, United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, PBS Newshour, 1/21/2025.
TIL that @lucyinglis.bsky.social’s random specialist subject is US military interference in Greenland (and Danish everything-else interference in Greenland), then I learned a whole lot more and you can too. https://open.substack.com/pub/lucyinglis77gmailcom/p/donald-trump-and-the-utmost-north
Free Access to Australian records at @myheritageofficial.bsky.social from January 25th-28th
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Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve a few loose ends in Australia with two of my war dead so I’ll try to free up the time to check them out today. Also robustly kicking myself that I had forgotten to check for such openings round about 26 January!
This is absolutely delightful. Read the link with pleasure as well!
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Thanks for the tip. I also use Family Names from home, logging in from my local library. Bookbub is a new find for me. It delivers a daily email alerting you to active cut price offers (99p) for both Kindle & Kobo. Got a few useful military books recently for background for my war graves blogs.
We had a fantastic end of year Old Front Line Podcast Supporter's Evening where @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social gave a superb illustrated talk on 'Remembering Tommy' in #WW1. Thanks Peter, and thanks to all supporters who joined us.
4️⃣9️⃣ Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) 🇬🇧 #womeninSTEM Mathematician, inventor & engineer. She is renowned for her work on the electric arc. Her application to the Royal Society was rejected in 1902 (women were not eligible until 1945). From 1883 until 1923, she registered 26 patents.
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Definitely! I always point out that every line of descent that we've ever traced effectively ends (or starts!) with a 'brickwall' and that every time we break down a 'brickwall' we instantly create two more - which is far too depressing - so I like 'treetops' as a concept. It suggests opportunities!
Indeed it is! I’ll be quoting you on this when I meet my U3A genealogy group this week 👍
Absolutely delighted to purchase the Kindle version of Putting your Ancestors in their Place, &I look forward to reading it. The 2014 version has been so useful to me over the years and I regularly recommend it to my U3A groups. 👍👍👍
Front cover of "Putting Your Ancestors in the Place" features and aerial shot of a small town or village with the countryside fading into the background. The cover retains the style of the original edition which came out in 2014.
Ready for a cover reveal?
#OnePlaceStudies #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
Putting Your Ancestors in their Place: A Guide to One Place Studies, by Janet Few, extensively revised and updated from the original 2014 edition.
Coming soon.
@janetfew.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
Map of London, East. Colour coded.
Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...
How delightful! I am sorely tempted to try this out because I hear in it the impelling voice of my family’s “receipts”. 😜
Yes! There were quite a few on this, my less stroppy handle, and I was initially reluctant to reject until I saw that pattern and then had to waste time unfollowing these pests. Btw it has felt great, over the past few weeks, to see so many old friends also committing to blue skies.
Happened to me today too, but I have been consoled by the reminder from @mandytherootsgenie.bsky.social that it’s been recorded.
Welcome!
Is anyone doing anything about #Hornchurch ? Dad has been reminiscing about his childhood there during the war. Be lovely to share them. I know there isn’t a #OnePlaceStudies but maybe it isn’t registered yet.
You’ve expressed my feelings about the outcome perfectly.