The portrait of a lady, captured in stained glass, has mystified Sheila Snuggs of Buckland Ripers, Dorset, England. Can you help her solve this mystery. Read the full story by Nicola Rayner in the Dorset Echo
Mystery of tribute in windows
January 21, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Buckland Ripers, Stained Glass
Great Western Railway Shareholders Index
January 20, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Great Western Railway, GWR, Society of Genealogists
Unfortunately for me this is not an index of railway staff, which is the connection most of my own ancestors had with the Great Western Railway, but of shareholders in the railway between 1835 and 1910 compiled by The Society of Genealogists from the ledgers created by the company and now in the Society’s possession.
Frome, Somerset (1822)
January 19, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Codrington, Frome, Phillott, Selwood, Thynne
The description of Frome, Somerset, England which follow is taken from ‘Somersetshire Delineated’, published in 1822 by Christopher and John Greenwood, Surveyors, a Topographical Description of each Town, Parish, Chapelry, etc. in the county.
Ancestry.co.uk to host Archive CD Books’ UK Collection
January 18, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Ancestry, Archive CD Books
As a past user of Archive CD Books’ UK Collection I was pleased to note the following press release which was posted on the Ancestry.co.uk website on January 16, 2008.
Harriot Stanton Blatch
January 17, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Blatch, Cady, Stanton
This thumbnail sketch of Harriot Stanton Blatch is taken from ‘The Part Taken by Women in American History’ by John A. Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan and Published in 1912 by The Perry-Nalle publishing company.
Brewham (North & South), Somerset, 1822
January 16, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Brewham, Dampier, Greenwood, Hoare
The two descriptions which follow are taken from ‘Somersetshire Delineated’, published in 1822 by Christopher and John Greenwood, Surveyors, a Tophographical Description of each Town, Parish, Chapelry, etc. in the county.
Dorset Ancestors Closed
January 15, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
The Dorset Ancestors web site has temporarily closed it’s doors. Let’s hope this interesting and useful website will soon be back on line. The following is from the sites temporary home page.
Twins separated at birth met and married
January 14, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: adoption
A couple discovered after they had married that they were twins who had been split up at birth and adopted by separate families, according to a member of Britain’s House of Lords.
Read the full story as reported by Reuters
Counting People
January 13, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Census
Nowadays, a census is part of the standard equipment of a functioning state but this has not always been the case. Numbers mean power, which is why counting people is so controversial and history offers good reason for worrying about the misuse of the information.
Read the full story from the December 19, 2007 edition of The Economist
A Yeovil Ghost Story
January 12, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Yeovil
The following article was originally published in Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset in 1893
