Paul Chiddicks

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Congratulations to the happy couple and another certificate for the collection 😉

The September 2025 issue of @familytreeplus.bsky.social has just dropped through my door.

My FT Academy piece is a case study featuring one of the most remarkable stories I’ve ever researched. If Bryan Dean was dead in 1881, how come he appears in the 1911 census?

Read all about the Life of Bryan…

Great pic Dave congratulations to one and all

Please spare a couple of minutes to help Lindsey....

Thanks Jenny for your comments it’s much appreciated. You’ve reminded me that I now need to add the link to the blog to his wiki tree profile

Thank you Ann 😊

Can anyone help???

Oh wow love this ❤️ thanks @whoamiftr.bsky.social

@chiddickstree.bsky.social 😍

Exactly, my family might not have been intrepid explorers or anything like that but for decades we contributed in our own unique way into village life, as did thousands of ordinary folk around the Country

Thanks Helen it did take a considerable effort and a lot of patience to get the naming over the line but well worth the perseverance I think
😊

Thanks much appreciated and I agree with your summary, spot on

Thank you so much Marian I am always intrigued to know what our ancestors would think about us nosing into their past. Would they be happy, annoyed or just think of us as nosey so and so’s

Thanks so much Debbie much appreciated

Thanks Ruth the Sunday dinners stories were All from oral testimony handed down. It’s always difficult to get the balance right between storytelling and a factual biography 😊

The Life and Times of William Chiddicks This is the first in a series of blogs that will tell the tale of my eight Great-grandparents, first up is William Chiddicks. William Chiddicks was born on 18th March 1866, the first born child of …

The older blog is here:

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In the Footsteps of William Chiddicks A Journey Through Victorian Essex and Beyond In the spring of 1866, in the quiet rural village of South Ockendon, Essex, a young boy named William Chiddicks was born into a world poised on the brin…

This brand new #Blog is a complete rewrite of a much older blog and I want to canvas everyones opinion:
Do you prefer the new blog
Do you prefer the older blog.
Both are attached
Please let me know what you think
#Genealogy

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Another of Paul's thought-provoking blogs...

Do You Know Who You Are? Can you really truly know who you are, if you don’t know where you came from? It’s a simple enough question and one that I am sure that many family historians and probably many psycholo…

Can family history help you discover who you really are? Understanding the psyche of why we research our family tree Do You Know Who You Are?

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#Genealogy #FamilyTree #psyche #BloggersTribe #Blog #Ancestry #FamilyHistory #History #FamilyHistory

Interesting article, thanks for sharing

Fabulous #OldPhoto album thread!

Glad I’m not the only one who keeps buying old photos 😁

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The Quest to Identify Who Captured Thousands of Iconic 1960s Photos Who took these iconic 1960s photos?

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Well deserved 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 congratulations Angela

The Detective's Notebook has reached 700 subscribers! Huge thanks to all my fabulous supporters. There are more sleuthing adventures ahead so, if you enjoy crime history, join the Victorian and Edwardian detectives as they investigate historical homicides: drangelabuckley.substack.com

Fabulous #OldPhoto!
And those hats - such a good photo-dating clue.

Society for One-Place Studies webinar. Tuesday 12 August 2025, 8 for 8.30pm UK time. "Using Social Network Analysis for One-Place Studies" with Joe Saunders. One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.

Our next #OnePlaceStudies webinar🔗 for Society members is on Tuesday 12th August, when Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social will follow up his presentation at our Conference last year with “Using Social Network Analysis for #OnePlaceStudies.” Not a member? Join up🔗 and join in! #OnePlaceWednesday