Until recently I’ve been using Joomla CMS to create my website – mainly to get practice for another project I’m involved in. But as I’m the only person updating my site, it’s rather overkill. Another problem was that the few genealogy plug-ins were too heavy on resources for my free hosting, and I don’t want … Continue reading
Not exactly tennis, but this is my paternal grandfather (front left), with his darts team. I don’t know the date, but he was born in 1893, so this is probably about 1913. He was born in Camberwell Road, Peckham in London, and married in Wimbledon so the connection isn’t so tenuous! After his marriage he … Continue reading
A brick wall that has remained for years is the identity of the parents of my 6x great-grandfather, William Easter. According to information I’ve inherited, he was born in 1675, in Stow-cum-Quy, Cambridgeshire. However his baptism isn’t in the parish records for Stow, so he must have been born elsewhere. There is a possibility that … Continue reading
Two months since I posted, but I’ve been busy. I let a couple of weeks go by after the release of the 1940 US Census, to let the crowds disperse a bit! I have a family branch in Utah, so I’ve been looking up some of those I know about on the census. There’s no … Continue reading
Some of the interesting sites I’ve bookmarked in the last couple of weeks. 1940 US Census - if you have ancestors in the US, this is the one to bookmark so you’re ready! WorkingDogWeb genealogy resources, from absolute beginners onwards. Genealogy Blog Finder - find by name, by area, or by topic. British Newspaper Archive I actually came … Continue reading
