Properties, mortgages, and burials
How my grandfather prepared to give his properties as legacies for his family. Continue reading Properties, mortgages, and burials
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The Welsh Connection (Revisited Socially)
Welsh Ancestors revisited. Continue reading The Welsh Connection (Revisited Socially)
#52Weeks52Ancestors: Check It Out!
Ancestral Heritage Trail April Monthly Theme: Check It OutWeek 14 (Apr. 5-11): Check It OutWeek 15 (Apr. 12-18): How Do You Spell That?Week 16 (Apr. 19-25): NegativesWeek 17 (Apr. 26-May 2): Document This month’s theme resonated with me as I … Continue reading #52Weeks52Ancestors: Check It Out!
#52Ancestors52Weeks: Week 11: Flowers
Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers.
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Take care of your garden
And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine,
Kind words and Kind deeds.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Continue reading #52Ancestors52Weeks: Week 11: Flowers
#52Ancestors: Week 9: Females
Females in my Family Tree: Introduction This month’s theme is all about Females. That fits in well with March being #WomensHistoryMonth. I was intrigued with the number of Genealogy quotes from Women and found a great blog post from the … Continue reading #52Ancestors: Week 9: Females
#52Ancestors: Week 8: The Mary Letters continued
Moments of Mourning: A bond between sisters Continue reading #52Ancestors: Week 8: The Mary Letters continued
#52Ancestors52Weeks: Week 7: Landed
The Allery Brothers Great Grandfather, Samuel John Allery was never part of the landed gentry, but he certainly moved around a great deal in his lifetime. I have counted twenty different Residences from 1847 to 1922, let alone the various … Continue reading #52Ancestors52Weeks: Week 7: Landed
#52Ancestors: Week 6: Maps
Maps and mapping are only loosely associated with this story of my Great Aunt Edie; you might say that I have been ‘mapping’ the relationship between sisters from my family tree. The map displayed in the featured image is that … Continue reading #52Ancestors: Week 6: Maps
#52 Ancestors Week 5: Branching Out
The Children of my Great Grandparents: Emma and Harry Cutting This week I have been branching out to locate all the children born to my great grandparents, Emma and Harry Cutting. At first, my research using the Census records from … Continue reading #52 Ancestors Week 5: Branching Out
#52Ancestors: Week 4: Curious
Curious Cuttings Harry Cutting: Carpenter and Ironmonger Curious about Harry Cutting (great grandfather) and his son Charles Harry Newland Cutting (grandfather) I wanted to find out a little more by exploring the Cutting line of my family tree. I returned … Continue reading #52Ancestors: Week 4: Curious
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