Looking forward to this one

Photo of a desk with a keyboard & 2 monitors. One screen is RootsMagic database & the other a weare.xyz family archive

Built a family history site and… turns out resilience runs deep in our DNA.
From census to certificates — the data tells a story.
Your last name has lore. Go find it. 🔎✨
@simondmd.bsky.social
#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Ancestry #KnowYourRoots #FamilyTree #HistoryNerd

@wdytyamagazine.bsky.social Very interested to read Angela Linnell's letter on Bermuda convicts in the last issue. I have 2 Bermuda convicts in my family. After much research in TNA I discovered that they escaped! Still looking for what happened to them after that .

Holly Tree Farm, Pilsley One-Place Study. Image: A photo of the view looking across a garden lawn to a two-storey, four-bay, stone-built house, with a single-storey extension to its right. On either side of the picture, the branches of apple trees, bearing leaves and fruit, can be seen. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Caroline Cox has registered Holly Tree Farm, Pilsley One-Place Study🔗 in #Derbyshire. This was the farm of Caroline’s father-in-law; Caroline did some research on former owners and later, while working on her own family tree, discovered she had a direct link to the house! #OnePlaceWednesday

Appeal to solve mystery of 'gold mine' WW2 suitcase ahead of VE Day A man is keen to learn more about a suitcase from World War Two that was found in a derelict house.

BBC News - Appeal to solve mystery of 'gold mine' WW2 suitcase ahead of VE Day - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Q's for those working in #Genealogy #geneticgeneaology or #history fields (or similar) :
- How did you start in this field?
- What courses or schooling helped get into working (beyond a hobby)? Or certain experience?
- Does it pay your bills, partial income (second job), or minimal income?

'In the Ramtop Villiage they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock he wound up winds down - until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actualy existence.' Teryr Pratchett Author and humanist. #Humanistbookshelf

A great humanist sentiment by author Terry Pratchett for our #WorldBookDay. He was our patron and is sorely missed.

GNU Terry Pratchett

🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘🌠🌌

Please add me to #genealogy thank you ☺️

The front page of the attested list of prisoners in the Gosport convict hulk from December 1843

A map showing Pilsley in Derbyshire

The front cover of one of the volumes of Home Office records on the convict prisoners kept on hulks

A page of the Home Office records of convict prisoners on the hulks

A day at The National Archives tracing my convict uncles' time in Bermuda and the village in Derbyshire for my one place study

#thenationalarchives #convicthistory #oneplacestudy #genealogy

Hi #GenHour I spent a happy day yesterday at TNA. I found more details of my transported convict uncles and the map of the 1941 farm survey for my OPS

Happy birthday! 🎉

My Spotify wrapped 2024. Top artists are King King, Kira Mac, Bowling For Soup, Elles Bailey and Volbeat. Top songs are One Way Ticket, Hit Me Again, You Stopped The Rain, I Will Not Fall and Dead Man Walking

That's a bit of a surprise 😲 🎸🎵🎶
#spotifywrapped

New Lost Cousins newsletter

lostcousins.com/newsletters2...

That's a shame, hopefully next time 🤞

The front cover of the book 'Vivienne Westwood- catwalk' which features the book title in white lettering on a cover of tartan formed of blue, red, yellow and white stripes.

Inside pages of the book 'Vivienne Westwood- catwalk' featuring models, including Vivienne herself, dressed in extravagant outfits.

Filled with lavish photographs, this beautiful book ‘Vivienne Westwood – catwalk’ in our #LocalStudies collection, celebrates the work of this Derbyshire born and world-famous fashion designer. It even features her Blue McAndreas tartan as a cover.

#EYAFashion

Massive Wagons were also excellent 👏😀

Florence Black at Rock City last night 🎸 🔥 🎵

#florenceblack #rockcity #LiveMusicRocks #nottsrocks

Cam Cole at Rock City last night 🎸🎶❤️

#rockcitynotts #camcole #LiveMusicRocks

That's a good idea, I'll have a look at that. I've got my general genealogy & the farmhouse, there is an overlap though so it would be good to link them

I'm using WordPress as well, I still like it, so I may post on both

Thank you 😁

#OnePlaceWednesday. Join us on Bluesky Social on 20th Nov 2024 for the fifth anniversary of #OnePlaceWednesday! Help us to celebrate by posting with the hashtag, and you could win a prize — see our website's blog for details. Image: A view looking down on houses on the edge of a village, with fields and woodlands beyond. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Winners of our #OnePlaceWednesday 5th anniversary draw can choose from a list of 10 books including

📘 10 Steps to a #OnePlaceStudy by @janetfew.bsky.social
📗 House Histories by @househistorian.bsky.social
📕 The Kingstons by @lrylandepton.bsky.social
📙 10 Scotland Street by @skylinefilm.bsky.social.

A stone built farmhouse in Pilsley, Derbyshire approx 400 years old. There is a green lawn in front of the house with old apple trees, some shrubs and a small wooden bridge over an ornamental pond

Happy #oneplacewednesday I'm so pleased to see this on bluesky.
I haven't managed to do much work on my place recently, but I'm definitely wanting to join @simondmd.bsky.social & start adding my tree & the info I already have.

Sunset on the horizon, clear blue sky turning to orange. Snowy landscape in front and a leafless tree on the left

A narrow icy footpath in front passing under snow laden branches

A narrow icy footpath in front passing under snow laden branches

A cold snowy walk. I was soo glad to get back home, I'm far too nesh for winter! ❄️⛄🌨️😂😂

If you've been missing some of your favorite #Genealogy people, and you have a way to reach them (DM, email, F2F, etc.) why not invite them to BlueSky so they can join in the fun?

People may be more likely to move over if they know you'll interact with them once they're here.

So many new accounts on Bluesky that I would like to invite all the #Genealogy interested people to #GenHour chat time between 8-9pm GMT every Thursday. It is a thriving live chat time where you can get new followers and find people to follow as well as read lots of interesting information. Do come

That's a brilliant idea

A zoomed in picture of Dylan our black & white cat in the snowy garden

He's so excited, he's been running in & out of the catflap all morning ❄️😻

Our back garden & patio with planted borders and pots, totally covered in snow, but with plenty of paw prints where the cats have been exploring

A very snowy day today, the garden is white over.
Can you spot Dylan? It's his first time in snow & he seems to love it ❄️😻

#cats #catlife #CatSitterDerbyshire #snowyday

A lot of people have referred to the ‘ #Genealogy on Bluesky #1’ starter pack but make sure to give the people in the second one some follows & interaction too! ❤️

There’s still room for people, if you want to be added let me know. Won’t add those who are in the first one here.

go.bsky.app/AqMGpsd