Happy day today🌞 I passed my Higher Certificate in Genealogy exam. Looking forward to a trip to Canterbury now next month to collect my certificate. Definitely planning on doing the Diploma next.
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As this week's WDYTYA was based in Ireland, it's Irish revision day 😂. Anki app is down (can't access my revision cards) so catching up on some missed @sogorg.bsky.social talks on Irish subjects. Trying to keep my revision varied.
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Finally after many years I have finished the IHGS Correspondence Course, the final Lecture 24 assignments have been sent 😀.
Now it's 4 weeks of revision ahead of me so I can take the next step the Higher Certificate Exam (scary, I don't like exams)
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Trying to write my last assignment for the IHGS Correspondence Course and struggling to focus 😢. I need to at least get a bit further this afternoon if I'm going to get it finished by the end of Monday.
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A few hours transcribing (so repetitive) v minutes summarising. The joys of Consistory Court petitions.
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The end is near 😀 1 of 3 assignments for the IHGS lecture 24 (last) complete. I started with the final and largest of the 3 and it has taken a while. Fingers crossed I can finish it all sometime next week. Losing Tuesday as on Nana duty.
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Extract from the Will of Alexander Neave of St Mary Bourne, Schoolmaster
Another day, another Will. This one is Alexander NEAVE of St Mary Bourne part of my final assignment. He's the first known Schoolmaster in my OPS and will feature in the book I will be starting to write later in the year.
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A Will with 35 Beneficiaries is great until you try to get them all on Pedigrees 😂. Slightly regretting my choice of family to research for final assignment 😭.
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Image showing old handwriting
My least favourite job, reading old handwriting 🤣. Doing it in chunks ⅓ done last week, more today. My first Ecclesiastical document too, fingers crossed it makes sense when done 🤣
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That's another IHGS lecture submitted, 22 done, 2 to go. Woke up this morning determined to finish these, so cracked on with them nice and early. Time to move on to Legal Records and glad I've been working on my Palaeography skills 😂
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A cardboard box
I will not open this now 😂 ordered an old video camera off eBay last week to extract some old tapes. I want to look but IHGS coursework for a few hours first 👩🎓📒📖
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Screenshot of PRONI page showing start of a Valuation Revision book
A long morning of Valuation Revision Books. It's a job I've been putting off, but now study is getting me to crack on with it! Needed for the Family Tree & One Name Study too.
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Cover of IHGS Correspondence course lecture 22
A morning of reading ahead. Not an unfamiliar subject as my Grandfather was Northern Irish, and my first family tree his mother's. Looking forward to this one, hoping to open new research avenues with any sources mentioned I haven't used.
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21 done, 3 to go 😊 it's taken ages but I'm nearly at the end of the IHGS Correspondence Course.
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Attempt two at getting my head around Scottish Probate records. Although my bloody awful cold has not gone fully I can concentrate again 😀. Fingers crossed I can get this finished today. I want this IHGS lecture in before Xmas!!! Still one more assignment to go.
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Photo of old Scottish Testamentary documents
Time to pause writing assignments this week. Still trying to get my head around Scottish Probate records. Decided the best thing to do was get something relevant to my research albeit distant, always helps me get a better understanding.
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Book cover for My Ancestor was Scottish by Alan Stewart
Delving into Scottish records this week for my studies. Parish & probate records on the agenda today and tomorrow. Happy that I do have some experience with Scottish records unlike the Welsh ones I was looking at last week.
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So doing this but not until after I take the Higher Certificate in Genealogy next year. So close now to finishing the correspondence course.
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Scottish records are today's topic. I've not used all the records that need discussing over my next 2 assignments but some which is helpful. Then at lunch time it's time to find out about what's coming up when I get to Legal Records.
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Attempt two of trying to get my head around problems that may be encountered in Welsh research. I always find it easier when I have my own examples but for this subject I have none.
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