Blossom season is in full swing at my #OnePlaceStudy St. John's Square, Wakefield.

Having transcribed many wills for Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy there are two inescapable facts. 1) Forever is a very long time. 2) Any will longer that four sheets is more likely to be followed by a court case. Even if it takes forever to bring the case! 😆

March 2026 Bulletin History Pieces These are the history pieces which appeared in the Batley St. Mary of the Angels and Birstall St. Patrick’s bulletin during March 2026. As the parishes are jointly administered and a single bulleti…

The March 2026 Batley St. Mary’s and Birstall St. Patrick’s parish history bulletin pieces are now online
#OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory #Batley #Birstall
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Edwin Percival Harrison (1897-1983), Rillington: coal merchant, bicycle repairer and seller, later the local school crossing keeper (lollipop man). One life, several roles - change on the ground. #OnePlaceStudy #MicroHistory #FamilyHistory #LocalKnowledge

Item I give to my Second daughter Elizabeth Wilson Two Hundred and fiftie poundes in money Item my Will is that she shall wayte upon some Virtuous Lady to Learne behaviour and not sitte and lye at home to Waste that little shee hath

In Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy I have discovered another will about the ownership of another Inn in Colnbrook. Included was this gem about Felix's domestic life in 1661. In 1647 of Lord Fairfax stayed at Mr Wilson's House. Are the executors are going to have trouble with these Items in the will?

The tithe apportionment records for my #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in #Shropshire include the field name Hell Hole!

A montage of three photos combined into a single image. Top: A Red Kite soaring in the blue sky above me, head towards me and to my right, forked tail spread wide and primary flight feathers extended like fingers at the end of each outstretched wing. Bottom right: A similar photo of the same Red Kite, but the bird is flying away from me and to my left; the forked tail is again spread wide, but the primary flight feathers are closed together. Bottom left: A Raven perched on a small branch in a distant tree; the bird's body faces away from me, but the head is turned to the right.

Red Kite and Raven at Fawsley yesterday. There were two very vocal Ravens, neither of whom came close. My Red Kite sightings may all have been of the same bird, but I got the feeling there was more than one around. #OnePlaceStudy #Birds #UKWildlife 🌿

Damn! Another rabbit hole that affects my Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy Reports of Charles I and Lord Fairfax staying in Colnbrook ( at different times).

Three landscape format photos combined in a single image. Top: Looking across a green field to Fawsley Hall, a sprawling, stone-built, 2- to 3-storey country house. Middle: A Lesser Celandine with two bright yellow flowers growing amongst the grass in the churchyard. Bottom: A 7-spot Ladybird on an old gravestone.

It was good to be back at Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy, for the first time in a while today. On the downside, excavations for a new sewer main are temporarily spoiling many of my favourite views. On the upside, plenty of #wildlife including Ravens, Red Kites, Chiffchaffs, Ladybirds and more.

Fingers crossed. 🤞🏻 Wouldn't want you to miss out on the joy of a #OnePlaceStudy!

I'm not sure how active it is - there's no website and the last mention I see online is from two years ago - but either way, when I get around to a #OnePlaceStudy, I'd like it to be my own work, done from scratch, so I can experience all of the different challenges and discoveries for myself. 🙂

Thanks for the idea, but I'm looking forward to the discovery and new challenges of a #OnePlaceStudy and I don't believe I'd get that coming in late (I'm pretty sure they've been working on it for a long time). Hopefully at some point I'll feel a connection to another place that is available.

Hoping to learn something from the @socaustgen.bsky.social One Place Focus Group tonight. The topic is #cemeteries #OnePlaceStudy #localhistory #familyhistory

St. Mary’s Schools’ St. Patrick’s Day Concert – 1901 Canon James Gordon In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, on 18 and 19 March 1901, pupils and teachers of St. Mary’s infants and senior schools held their annual concert to raise money for school funds. P…

New Batley St Mary of the Angels #OnePlaceStudy Post about a St Patrick’s Day concert in 1901
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Might it be worth making contact with the one-placer who has registered the #OnePlaceStudy, to see if collaboration is possible (e.g. each of you taking on different record sets / time periods / places within the place)? #OnePlaceWednesday

When you realise you've developed such an affinity for a place that you're happily considering a #OnePlaceStudy for the future, only to find it already registered by someone else. Woe.
#OnePlaceWednesday

A poster, headed with small sketches of Framlingham Castle, a postbox, and the village church. Text: Framlingham Local History Fair, Saturday 2nd May, Castle Community Rooms, Church Street, 10:00 to 16:00. The Framlingham History Society is hosting a Local History Fair. There will be many displays of our local history along with other local organisations, including: ● The Lanman Museum ● Alde Valley Suffolk Family History ● Charnwood Genealogy ● Framlingham College ● Parham Airfield Museum ● Saxmundham History Society ● Thomas Mills High School ● Wickham Market Area Archive Centre ● Worlingworth History Group ● Yoxford History Group ● Debenham One-Place Study. Admission is free, but donations would be most welcome. Put this date on your calendar.

Debenham #OnePlaceStudy, and our member Simon Last (Charnwood Genealogy), will be at Framlingham #LocalHistory Fair on Saturday May 2nd. Organised by #Framlingham History Society, and with a variety of local organisations attending, the event is free to attend. #OnePlaceWednesday

If you have a Suffolk #OnePlaceStudy you might be interested to know that there are over 80 Historic Environment Records (HER) Officers across England. To find out more about the Suffolk HER Please visit: heritage.suffolk.gov.uk

#OnePlaceWednesday

If you have a UK #OnePlaceStudy and an interest in the historic environment of your Place & the wider area in which it is located, learn more about Historic Environment Records by reading Historic Environment Records: Signposts to the past and watching the video in the post below. #OnePlaceWednesday

If you are an Ancestry subscriber with a #OnePlaceStudy, and have access to Full Text Search (currently being rolled out), Jan has some tips for you in this thread! 👇🏻 #OnePlaceWednesday

#OnePlaceWednesday showcase: Texas, Maryland
Explore the lives & stories of residents in this community through collaborative genealogy research! 📍www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Space:Texas,_Maryla... #OnePlaceStudy #CollaborativeGenealogy

Destinations – March 2026. Image: Front cover of the March 2026 edition of Destinations. Text (list of featured article titles): Where to Start With Schools? Creating a Chronology. Cormont Road School. The Little Red Notebook. Barnsley Mechanics’ Institute in the First World War. The Swing Riots of 1830. From Rural Classroom to Battle Training Area. The 21st Birthday. Where Did They Go to School. Tips for Members. And more... One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Members! If you haven’t already done so, download the lastest issue of our #OnePlaceStudies journal Destinations from the Members’ Area of our website. With a focus on schools and educational establishments, and other subjects plus regular features, it makes for a great read! #OnePlaceWednesday

The Barn at Harmondsworth is under threat from Heathrow Airport expansion. See also Longford #OnePlaceStudy which also will be lost. There are other problems for Heathrow, the company does not have the funds & Iran war is affecting one of the owners. Same war causing rise in oil prices & flights.

#genealogy #OnePlaceStudies
Further adventures with Ancestry's beta Full Text Search:

I can attach the pages from the UK medical registers to a person in my trial tree for my #OnePlaceStudy. Create the person in your tree first, then you can add the page you've found.

Aldbourne is also the subject of a registered #OnePlaceStudy! Naturally, the Doctor’s visit to Devil’s End is remembered by @aldbournearchive.bsky.social...

The Bohemian Girl – St. Mary’s Schoolboys, 1952 Councillor John Edward McDonald, the Batley-born Mayor of Dewsbury The opening night of the St. Mary’s R.C. Boy’s School’s production of The Bohemian Girl took place on Wednesday 30 April 1952. Amo…

The latest Batley St. Mary’s one-place study post takes the parish back to 1952 & the schoolboys’ production of The Bohemian Girl. Laurel & Hardy get a mention too!
#OnePlaceStudy #Batley #LocalHistory
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I second the recommendation from Jane!

Tagging this for those doing a #OnePlaceStudy.

When Henry Silverstein Got Cold: Fraud in the 1920 Census How one man's illegal scheme led to an awful enumeration of one Homestead neighborhood.

Your video on correlating the 1841 Census with the tithe maps was so helpful.

I thought you might like to see a case from the USA to show what can be done with mapping as part of a rigorous #OnePlaceStudy.
homesteadhebrews.com/articles/whe...

#GenHour The school records for my study place are the starting database for my #OnePlaceStudy.

I’ve transcribed 70 years of school log books for my #Sudbourne #OnePlaceStudy. They’re such a wonderful insight into village life #GenHour