#BlogventCalendar

1924 – John Flynn It’s New Year’s Day, 2024. Traditionally, this is a time of year when we look to the future and I’ve been doing my fair share of that over the past few days. But as a family historian, my mind is m…

Behind the 24th and final window of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is a blog that I wrote at the start of this year in which I imagined my great grandfather, John Flynn, telling his life story..

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It’s time to open the penultimate window on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar

Today I’m sharing the latest episode of Setting The Record Straight, in which I explore yet another case of Very Bad Digitisation. In fact, it’s one of the worst I’ve ever come across…

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Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road I’ve always been passionate about art, and a few years ago I stumbled upon a little-known group of early-20th century artists known collectively as the East London Group. I was instantly capt…

A bit late opening up window #22 on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar to reveal a blog that I wrote celebrating my love of family history and art…

lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2022/03/06/s...

Behind today's window on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is a video dedicated to my late friend and colleague Audrey Collins who strongly believed that you can't do all your research online.
"Sometimes," she would say, "you have to go to a place and look at a thing..."
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Where have all the registers gone? Let’s make something clear right from the start. I am a huge fan of digitisation and online access in genealogy. Both as an enthusiastic hobbyist and as a professional genealogist with 37 years’ ex…

Day #20 on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is a blog post that I wrote in September 2020. It's all about some of the many problems with the big commercial genealogical websites.

Tbf to Ancestry they have fixed many of the specific problems highlighted here.

lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2020/09/06/w...

It's day #19 of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar and I'm sharing a video that I recorded last year which looks at some popular misconceptions relating to the UK census returns and how they were taken...

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We Need To Talk About Ancestry Or … How The Major Commercial Genealogical Websites Are Killing Family History Research As a full-time professional researcher, I depend heavily on the resources that I’m able to access onlin…

Window #18 on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is open to reveal a blog post that I published in September 2021.

We Need To Talk About Ancestry
or ... How The Major Commercial Genealogical Websites Are Killing Family History Research

It also features Tribbles!

lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2021/09/13/w...

Behind windows #16 and #17 on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar are the first two videos I recorded in my Setting The Record Straight series.
Let's have a look at some Really Bad Digitisation...

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Behind window #15 of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar there’s a video I made about using Tithe Maps.

I love maps… ❤️ 🗺

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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got… I realise that I’m running the risk of sounding like a broken record here but it seems like there’s always something else to say when it comes to assessing the work of the major commercial genealog…

It’s day #14 of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar and today I’m revisiting a blogpost I wrote three years ago. It’s one of many that I’ve written in which I get up on my soapbox and have a good old moan about the Big Commercial Genealogical Websites…

lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2021/11/26/y...

Two for the price of one! Behind windows #12 and #13 on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar are two videos which together tell one story. It's all about a small street in London and how I worked out exactly where my client's ancestors had lived...
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It's day #11 of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar and today I'm sharing a video that forms part of a campaign that the late Audrey Collins and myself launched aiming to debunk the myth that it wasn't compulsory to register births in England and Wales before 1875.
Yes it was!
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Conjectures, traditions and the search for the truth… Sir Denner Strutt, Knt., was of Little Warley, of which place he was created a baronet in 1641; he suffered severely from the arbitrary exactions of the parliament in the time of King Charles the F…

Window #10 on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is open to reveal a blog that I wrote nearly four years ago. It's one of my personal favourites...

lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2021/01/10/c...

It's day #9 of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar and it's time to look at the most viewed blog on my website.

The blogs which seem to really strike a chord with you are the ones where I get up on my soapbox and let fly. Like this one, in which I look at misinformation...

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Day #8 of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is open to reveal a video that I recorded a last year. It's a brief look at some wonderful sources available via the FamilySearch website...
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A census release with a difference In a previous life, when I worked for The National Archives, I was actively involved in planning and delivering the launch of the 1901 and 1911 censuses for England & Wales. Now, I’m deli…

Behind the 7th window of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is a blog that I published in 2019.

It’s the story of a remarkable document that was rescued from a bonfire by a distant cousin of mine about 100 years ago…

lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2019/07/26/a...

It’s time open the 6th window on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar

Today’s video looks at the dangers of the current ‘Click & Collect’ culture, encouraged by the big commercial genealogical websites…

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Welcome to the family Margaret Howland was born on 9 August 1906 at 46 Brunswick Street, Edinburgh, just off Leith Walk but south of the border with the ancient Burgh of Leith. Margaret was my grandma and one of the nic…

It's day #5 of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar and I'm going back to August 2022 when I'd just made a fascinating discovery regarding my grandma. It turns out that she wasn't an only child after all...

lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2022/08/20/w...

Window #4 on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is open to reveal a video in which I ask, 'Do Ancestry really know what they're doing...?'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=McaS...

Our Ancestral Places Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that I’ve embarked on a virtual journey this year, tracking down the places connected with my ancestors’ lives (I’ve ‘borrowe…

Let's see what's behind the third window of my 2024 #BlogventCalendar

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The second window on my 2024 #BlogventCalendar is open to reveal a link to a video that I recorded earlier this year. It combines three of my greatest research interests; old maps, crime and Georgian London...
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A Star of the Silver Screen and… the 1939 National Register Just in case anyone ever needs to know, if you want to get my attention, you could do worse than sending me a message that says: Hi Dave. I’m doing a bit of research at the moment on the 1939…

It’s time to open the first window in my 2024 #BlogventCalendar
Every day for the next 24 days, I’ll be posting a link to a blog on my website or to a video on my YouTube channel.
Today’s blog is all about the discovery of a famous person in the 1939 Register.
lifelinesresearch.co.uk/2024/01/19/a...