May 20, 2012

Gravestones on the North Yorkshire Moors

Gravestone photography

I hadn’t planned to head up onto the Yorkshire Moors just before Christmas but that’s what I did after being contacted from this website in early December. I was asked to go to Westerdale and take photographs of around a dozen family graves there. Now, I had to admit I didn’t know where on earth [...]

South Yorkshire Archives

Parishes in the Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster Area

This week I’ve been trying to identify an early emigrant to Australia and to do so I needed to visit a couple of archives in South Yorkshire. Now I spend most of time researching in York so I have to remind myself what records are where when it comes to South Yorkshire and this isn’t [...]

1837 – 2006 UK Deaths Index

One of the most difficult things to find when researching your family history are the dates of people’s deaths. Sometime the only hint you have is an appearance on one census but not on the next which gives you about 10 years of records to work through as a minimum. A common name can throw [...]

A Surreal Day in York FHS Research Room

Class photo with rabbit

I spent yesterday afternoon manning York Family History Society Research Room, I volunteer for this about 2 days a month. Normally it isn’t very busy; a couple of visitors and a few phone calls to answer,  so I generally take a bit of research work to do whilst I’m there. Yesterday started off without any [...]