Liz Craig

I’ll check & let you know. It’s definitely indexed by name, as it went straight there!

The author found me via my Ancestry tree! I had no idea! I’m going to see if I can find out whether the diarist wrote anything else

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

Professor Brian Cox and our expert panel are talking all things ancient DNA. Over the past 50 years, new technology has allowed researchers to sequence and study centuries-old DNA taken from… Who Are Our Ancestors and Why Does It Matter? – A Question of Science with Brian Cox

I found this interesting - Who Are Our Ancestors and Why Does It Matter? – A Question of Science with Brian Cox
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#GenHour #DNA #AncientDNA

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Getting the most from cemetery records Today’s post is an interloper amongst my little ‘Ancestral Tourism’ series. It follows on from Part 1: Churches and Churchyards, Part 2: Municipal & other Public Cemeteries an…

My latest blogpost has just published. It's aimed at Intermediate level family history researchers or people moving on from Beginners to Intermediate, and looks at how we can layer up and cross reference information from burial records.
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UK, Military Service Records, 1939-1959 are now live on Ancestry. (Free access not until 6 November.) Thanks to @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social for the heads-up!

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #MilitaryHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Over 2 million WW2 service records to go online for the first time | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine Ancestry has announced the release date for the Second World War service records plus free access to wartime records for Remembrance Weekend

📣 Over 2 million WW2 service records to go online for the first time. Ancestry will add over 2 million British Army infantry service records on 6 November 6; along with their other military records they will be free to view from that date until 12 November. #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Photo of a set of three carved wooden panels (two narrow ones with a wider one in the middle), found on the side of one of the box pews at Fawsley St Mary. On the left, there is what appears to be a dog; the leaf-like shapes above it may represent the dog's barking calls, in effect medieval 'speech bubbles'. The central panel features a trio of upright creatures with pointed ears and long, slim tails; the smallest is on the left, the largest - playing a fiddle-like instrument with a bow, is on the right. Beneath those creatures are several circular shapes, each with two projections on either side, possibly representing bowls. At the bottom a peculiar quadruped with a ridged back and a short, thick tail raised like an elephant's trunk stands with its head buried in a large cooking pot which has three feet. Finally, the panel on the right has the head and shoulders of a man wearing a hat, below which there is a bear-like creature with its feet on the left side of the panel; it has a collar around its neck from which a chain descends to a fixing point on the left side of the panel. At the bottom, rotated sideways and facing upwards, is the head and shoulders of a man holding a horn to his mouth with his left hand.

Managed another short visit to Fawsley, my local #OnePlaceStudy parish, yesterday. As the sun/cloud ratio didn't favour landscape photography I spent more time in the church. The run-up to Halloween seems a great time to share some of its bonkers-but-brilliant box pew carvings. 🧵 #OnePlaceWednesday

People submit Welsh placenames to protect linguistic heritage Entries include Welsh language names for fields and hills in move to ensure preservation of stories and legends

People submit Welsh place names to protect linguistic heritage
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The cover of a book called "School and Community" published by FACHRS

I was thrilled to find this book on school log books by @fachrs.bsky.social! I wish I’d been a member during this project, as I’d have contributed my #Sudbourne school log books transcriptions
#OnePlaceWednesday

Red cover of a book entitled "Victorian Village Life - A Warwickshire Schoolmaster's Record"

On Monday I start the Pharos course ‘ Education and Childhood 1820 to 1920’ - I'm excited to to discover some background & context for my research into #Sudbourne school. While checking my personal library for books on the reading list, I found this one, which I’d forgotten about
#OnePlaceWednesday

A page from the 1855 White´s Directory

A page from the 1855 White´s Directory

Don’t forget to look at the county information in the front pages of Kelly’s, White’s & Pigot's directories. They can contain useful information about ancient history, geography & agriculture, as these images of pages from the 1855 White´s Directory show
#OnePlaceWednesday

The National Archives

Today I’m at The National Archives - once of my happy places! I’m researching 1910 Valuation Act records for my own #FamilyHistory & another one-placer & some Ordnance Survey Object Name Books, amongst other things
#OnePlaceWednesday

Oh no… I’m so sorry 💔

London. 1810s. A ruthless gang of grave robbers terrorised the city. One of them writes a diary detailing the bodies sold to the surgeons. We bring the true story to life in our podcast: The Diary of a Graverobber. Listen here: tinyurl.com/rhswu35f #history #halloween #graverobber #london

Combination of two of my favourite topics!

Petition: Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season We call on the Government to stop the shooting of hares during their peak breeding season, by establishing a legally enforceable close season for hares in England and Wales, from 1st February to 30th ...

Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season

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‘Involuntary’ Witches: The Case of Lee & Snigg — Louise Ryland-Epton In 1832 an article titled ‘Anecdotes of Witchcraft in Wiltshire’ appeared in the Gentleman’s Magazine . The piece was copied from a manuscript of 1686 penned by an unnamed individual, but now identif...

For no reason other than my obsession with the topic, I have decided to count down to #Halloween 🧙🎃👻 with a suitable daily blog. Stuff I’ve been excited about over the year, sometimes related to #JohnAubrey & his pals. My book on Aubrey is out 2026. 😁 1/6
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Our Zooms are now for members only because of actions of a few, resulting in breaches of trust, GDPR & copyright. However, membership starts at £10 a yr, & for that you get access to 11 Zooms, not bad value at < £1 each. See Parish chest or go to

A calico tortoiseshell cat by some daisies and purple flowers

Hope your #Caturday has been a good one. Here’s Patch exploring the garden 😻

Ballet shoes left

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 25: graveside ornament
Ballet shoes left on Serge Diaghilev’s grave

Woody toy from the Toy Story film sitting on a cross

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 25: graveside ornament
Ok…not strictly a graveside ornament as it wasn’t left there for the occupant of the grave, but - after giving me a fright - it did make me smile

Happy birthday! 🥳 💐

I really enjoy the podcast - I listen on my way to work!

ONLINE TALK: Saturday 8th November at 8pm IRISH DEATH CUSTOMS with Michael Fortune of folklore.ie

ONLINE TALK: Saturday 8th November at 8pm

IRISH DEATH CUSTOMS
with Michael Fortune of folklore.ie

Tickets £5 + booking fee, including recording, from

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An intriguing one-hour long talk on the superstitions, beliefs and practices surrounding death in Ireland, plus audience Q&A.

How lovely!

Wonderful! You’ve given me hope - and a methodology! Thank you so much! 🙏🏻

I always switch to ‘following’ before I look, otherwise it takes me a month of Sundays of trawling through a load of rubbish from people I don’t follow!

Unfortunately my grandfather’s tests were at Family Tree DNA, but I think they have clustering tools. I’ll investigate! Thank you for your help - and let me know how you get on!