You need to book as you can only visit on a guided tour 👍🏻

Black Country Living Museum Experience over 250 years of history, from the Industrial Revolution to post-war prosperity, through living interpretation.

Another place I’ll be visiting (near Birmingham) is the Black Country Living Museum bclm.com

Birmingham Back to Backs | West Midlands Explore 200 years of working peoples' lives on a guided tour of the Birmingham Back to Backs, a carefully restored court of houses built literally back-to-back.

I’ve never been, but have just booked, a visit to the #Birmingham back-to-backs. I did an open top bus toyr a few years ago & learned a lot about Birmingham & its history www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmin...

For our fair at The Hold on 9th May, Suffolk Archives (www.suffolkarchives....)will have a stall, and the John Blatchly Local Studies Library will also be open during the day

It seems the #GenHour feed on my phone isn’t refreshing either… I’ll look forward to seeing everyone’s posts at some point, but I’m currently missing posts from people I don’t follow & my notifications are glitchy!

I think it’s an Apple feature. I’ve not noticed it before in images I’ve added to BlueSky posts, but I’ve used it on my iPhone to search text in images stored on my phone #GenHour

A book called ‘BRITAIN IN OLD PHOTOGRAPHS BRIERLEY HILL’ by STAN HILL

I’m reviewing & extending my research into one of my brick wall ancestors ready for a trip up north in a couple of weeks. My quick & dirty #StreetStudies have been a huge success, & have really given me a flavour of life in those streets in the 1860s & 1870s when my ancestors live there #GenHour

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Screenshot showing the “Scan Text” (Live Text) icon which has selected all the text in my image, ready to copy & paste into the alt text box

This doesn’t bode well for our BlueSky chat… On the plus side, I’ve discovered an alt text feature I probably should’ve known about but didn’t. If you tap this button - the “Scan Text” (Live Text) icon - it’ll copy any text in the image ready to paste into the alt text box

#GenHour #accessibility

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Hope everyone’s week is going well. I’m SO excited about the Guild of #OneNameStudies conference next weekend! I’ve ticked off most of the things on my to-do list (I’m helping organise it) & I’ve been planning my poster. I’ve got part of it written but need to add some info on migration #GenHour

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#OnePlaceWednesday LIVE! 29 April 2026. Image: Artwork representing a laptop computer with images of 12 people engaged in an online meeting. 10am to 12 noon, 2pm to 4pm, 8pm to 10pm (UK times) via Zoom. Link: www.one-place-studies.org/events/ One Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Members! Our next #OnePlaceWednesday LIVE is just two weeks away, taking place on Wednesday April 29th. There will be three Zoom sessions for informal chat about our #OnePlaceStudies, sharing info, successes and issues, and getting to know each other. Not a member? Join us and join in!

A poster advertising the festival of #LocalHistory at Docking in Norfolk on Sunday 3 May & Monday 4 May

There’s a festival of #LocalHistory at Docking in Norfolk on Sunday 3 May & Monday 4 May #OnePlaceWednesday

Oh no! What a nightmare 😫

No3 St. Mary’s School Photo – Can you Identify the Children, Teacher and Year Taken? This is the third in a series of Batley St. Mary of the Angels school photos that I will be sharing over the next few weeks, possibly months, in the hope people might recognise themselves or family…

In my #OnePlaceWednesday news I’ve been given an amazing bundle of old Batley St Mary’s school photos for my #OnePlaceStudy. I’m in the process of sharing them to try to put names to faces. It’s probably going to take several months to post them all, but 3 done so far
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Great Ellingham One-Place Study. Image: Photo looking along a village street on a sunny, blue-skied day. On the left is a two-storey, four-bay cottage with white walls and a tiled roof, with further cottages and their gardens further along that side of the street. On the right, part of another building with white walls can be seen in the foreground, with the spire-topped tower of the village church a little further long the street, partially hidden by a couple of trees. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder that on Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th April, our member Heather Etteridge is staging a free #LocalHistory exhibition relating to her #OnePlaceStudy of Great Ellingham in #Norfolk: Every House has a Story – Every Story has a Family! 10am—4pm each day, at St James’s Church.

To celebrate #LocalAndCommunityHistoryMonth in May the Historical #Rillington Study Group are presenting an exhibition in #Malton Library. Do drop in to see examples of our work and have a chat. #OnePlaceWednesday @balhnews.bsky.social

Pirbright - a one place study with Richard Hartley Podcast Episode · Journeys into Genealogy podcast · 13 April · 41min

Today’s #OnePlaceWednesday listening on my commute is Richard Hartley, talking about his #Pirbright #OnePlaceStudy! A great example of what a small group can do

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#OnePlaceWednesday. Image: Photo of two white-fleeced lambs, playfully head-butting each other near the top of a grassy bank. Part of a third lamb can be seen on the left side of the image. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Playful lambs in my local #OnePlaceStudy back in April 2023 to kick off #OnePlaceWednesday! What places have ewe – sorry, you – been studying recently? Use the hashtag to post about any aspect of #OnePlaceStudies, that brilliant blend of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory, at any time today.

The tragic end to a foundling’s search for her family In the final extract from The Observer podcast Foundling, Jess, who was abandoned as a newborn, sets out to find her birth father and discovers a terrible secret

The tragic end to a foundling’s search for her family #genealogy #FamilyHistory observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

One of the first public toilets in Britain was in York. The Bog on the Bridge was kept clean by Agnes the poor widow. Hear the story in our History of Sewage Podcast at: tinyurl.com/2ys6jpf3 #history #sewage #publichealth #york #yorkshire

Woohoo!! The excitement and anticipation was warranted! Always a relief when it’s the right one

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She says hello back, & hello to your cats! 😻

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I do! This is Patch 😻 she’s 12 in August ♥️ #GenCats

Suffolk ancestors? Check out FreeREG! Nearly 50k new baptism, burial and marriage records were added to the database recently. Search now: www.freereg.org.uk #VolunteerTranscribers

Sounds like you had a very productive day! I haven’t looked at any MH 12 records yet (been concentrating on agricultural records recently) but I have a few for Plomesgate (which covers #Sudbourne) on my list to look next time I go. Last time I took 1056 images of documents 🫣

Blimey! What a story! Similar style of punishment to the drunkard’s cloak allthatsinteresting.com/drunkards-cl...

Have a great time! Let us know what you find!

I wish they’d provide digital copies of marriage certificates too! Cheaper & quicker! #GenHour

📢 Call for speakers: All About That Place

#GenHour -join us and share your expertise on the role of place in family history research.

Submit your proposal:
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I’ve also come up with a way to demonstrate that my #OneNameStudy is indeed worldwide! I think my study will owe more to scrapbooking than academic study but hopefully it will be acceptable 🫣🤞🏻