@fachrs.bsky.social
Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration.
Wow! Two ‘Black Country stocking filler’ book bundles on sale in our online shop! Seven books for just £10.00 means you don’t break the bank making sure everyone gets a little something for Xmas. Ho ho ho! www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop
08.12.2025 19:16 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Just about to record an interview about this for That's TV Solent ...
... and more here:
www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...
Free, but booking essential. Talks cover E. M. Forster and Trees; The First and Second Land Utilisation Surveys of Britain; John Constable and the Stour Valley in Suffolk; and Watermeadows, their operation and variety. Potentially of interest to #OnePlaceStudy and #LocalHistory researchers.
05.12.2025 17:37 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A formal portrait of a group of men and women all wearing ceremonial collars / sashes.
Does anyone know about either Friendly Societies or Temperance Societies in England? This photo was shared on a Facebook group relating to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. My hazy knowledge of clothing and hairstyles for the women made me guess c.1900 +/– ten years.
05.12.2025 15:55 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 2This podcast on the Black Country Living Museum might be of interest to anyone who lives in or near the West Midlands: is.gd/VVU7Ju
04.12.2025 07:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black and white image of women putting up a Christmas tree.
Look at how festive charity shaped the Christmas experience for Hampshire's poor at a virtual event on 10 December.
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-c...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Our talk this month is ‘Christmas at Home’ from the Yorkshire Dialect Society. December 3rd 7:30 at the Quaker Hall New Earswick. Mince pies optional extra! @federationfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social @clemhallhistory.bsky.social @ypsyork.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social
30.11.2025 13:54 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
1920s posed railway staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a carriage, but his head is about to hit a signal post. The caption reads ‘Heads – you lose! Is it safe to lean out of or open the doors of vehicles in motion where there are pillars, ladders, walls or bridges, unless you are satisfied there is sufficient clearance?’
Join us next week for our Annual Dymond Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr Mike Esbester, who will be exploring the hidden human stories behind Britain's railways.
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Get your diaries out to reserve a place for 09 May 2026 - it’s our annual conference - you won’t want to miss it!
30.08.2025 08:43 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tree Tip Tuesday 🌳✨
Keeping a Research Log helps you stay organised, avoid repeating searches, and keep your family history research on track. Whether it’s a notebook or a digital template, a good log will help you navigate through the branches of your family tree! 💚
NEW EPISODE: “The Vaccinator” with Roberto and Ramón Parra
familyhistoriespodcast.com/2025/12/02/s... #genealogy #ancestry #FamilyHistory #smallpox #mexico
Join us as professional genealogist Kathie Ross takes us for a tour of Reunion for Mac in her presentation on Tuesday 25th November. Book your place today (link in comments)
23.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In the right foreground a Met officer in his helmet watches as two elephants are prised out of a cellar. In the background others hold back a crowd as the elephants are led off home.
Met officers often received a reward for gaining control of runaway horses (and the occasional "infuriated cow") in the streets of Victorian London, but these escaped elephants in 1884 Kentish Town were an altogether rarer occurrence ... #Museum30 #animal
23.11.2025 10:40 — 👍 40 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2@fachrs.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/1ZZgxD... interesting article for anyone interested in the Nuses Mini Project.
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Did someone in your family serve in the Merchant Navy? Simon Wills reveals how you can trace them in the surviving crew lists:
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
Scottish GENES Webinar - The Godly Commonwealth: Discover Scottish Church Records
Sat 29 Nov 2025, 7pm UK
In this talk I'll look at over 300 years of Kirk history in Scotland, & discuss its impact for locating records for research.
Registration £10 via us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#genealogy
Bronze sculpture by Keith Barrett to be unveiled at Riverside Embankment Walkway, North Shields to Mary Ann Macham. She fled slavery, hid in woods in Virginia before stowing away & arriving in North Shields via the Netherlands. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Another fabulous #OnePlaceStudies resource!
thegreatwar.whitchurch-shropshire.co.uk
FindMyPast are offering FREE ACCESS to millions of military records for the weekend of 7-9th November
#NWKFHS #Kent #Genealogy
Ouch!
04.11.2025 11:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're here today from 11- 4 at the Institute of Historical Research's History Day!
Pop by for a chat about our collections, services and London's history.
@ihr.bsky.social
#HistDay25
⏰ FINAL DAY to register for #WikiTreeWeek2025!
www.wikitree.com/g2g/1945098
We kick off TOMORROW (Nov 2) with a week of FREE genealogy fun:
✨ Expert livecasts
🎮 Games & challenges
🎁 Door prizes
🎂 17th birthday party
📚 12-hr symposium
Registration closes TODAY!
#CollaborativeGenealogy
The story of how a Victorian Yorkshire community came together to ensure that everyone could be buried with dignity. (Article John Heywood)
As we approach All Souls Day when in many countries, people remember their loved ones who have died, the lovely story of a small Yorkshire community who many years ago came together to ensure that everyone could be buried with dignity. The story of the Farndale Hearse. Please enlarge the image.
01.11.2025 13:14 — 👍 54 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
The front cover of a book entitled "Devon's Home Front Diaries"
I was so excited to receive this book last week - it's about life on the home front in Devon in #WW2, & features diaries from someone in my #OneNameStudy! The book is by Todd Gray, who used diaries from the #MassObservation Archive to bring this interesting period of history to life #GenHour
30.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 20 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0Oh! A deliberate mistake?? Well spotted 😆
01.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Society Shop – Dudley War Memorial - £5. A description of the 720 names on the Dudley War Memorial. Photographs, descriptions of the men commemorated and campaign information make this an authoritative record of the fallen of Dudley. See www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop
02.11.2025 08:01 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
📜 Diving into the Parish and its Records
Join @elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social to explore the people, laws, and documents that shaped parish life in this 4-week online course.
Fridays, 7–28 Nov 2025 | 10:30–12:30
💻 Online via Zoom
Book now: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
#GenHour #ParishRecords
Fachrs stand, Huddersfield Family History Fair.
A week ago, 25 November 2025 caught up with friends and colleagues at #Huddersfield #FamilyHistory Fair. @huddsfhs.bsky.social Interesting material display from @fachrs.bsky.social studied by Tony @ancestralenq.bsky.social
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