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What "hidden" clues are there in the GRO Indexes of births and deaths? This Q&A is inspired by Jan Murphy's question – Finding Devon parish marriage records? – but this one pertains to the birth and death indexes for England & Wales. We all will have come acr...

#GenHour This brilliant hack shows how to use data from the classic FreeBMD site to find the subdistrict a death registration comes from. Helpful if your person has a common name.
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Other possibilities: dying in the county’s main hospital or even in a hospital in a neighbouring county (either way, in a different Registration District) or more rarely, death in some other institution (e.g. an asylum), again in a different RD. #GenHour

This is one of the things I do when there isn't an obvious death record in the English Registration District where a person in my #OnePlaceStudy was living. An older person, especially after the death of their spouse, would often move to live with (or closer to) an adult child. #GenHour

Photo of monuments on a wall inside a church. The wall itself is white and the moments, of marble, are also whitish, but with lots of splashes of colour - gold, red, blue and black - on coats of arms, panels nearing inscriptions, statuary and other decorative details.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30: Colour

I have shared pics showing parts of the massive monument on the North wall of St Mary’s in my #OnePlaceStudy parish of Fawsley, now here is the whole thing. It commemorates several members of the Knightley family, most if not all of whom were buried within the church.

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Torrisdale Bay. The image shows a river cutting across the bottom of the frame before flowing into a blue bay in the mid right of the frame. Beyond the river is a broad sandy beach with dunes to its left. This curves round to the right to form a rocky headland beyond the bay. The sky is mainly blue.

Spectacular Torrisdale Bay near the village of Bettyhill on the north coast of Sutherland. Bettyhill was established in the early 1800s as a result of Highland clearances and was named after herself by Elizabeth, Duchess of Sutherland. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland

The logo for the centenary of the General Strike project. It includes images from the General Strike, and the logos of key project partners.

#ICYMI: In one of our latest blogs, @redhen90.bsky.social shares information about the national partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the General Strike 1926.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-making-...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

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John Mackenzie, 'An Peigi', working with a scythe (and accompanied by a dog!) at South Erradale, c1940s. His thatched house is in the background

[photo from the collections at #Gairloch Museum]

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

Uncover Family Mysteries with Free Access to Death Records This Halloween - MyHeritage Blog Halloween is the perfect time to explore the mysteries in your family’s story. From October 30 to November 2, MyHeritage is offering free access to more

MyHeritage is currently offering free access to more than 1.5 billion death, burial, cemetery, and obituary records – 18 collections in this category have been added or updated since last Halloween.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudies #GenHour

​Where the veil between seasons and legends is thin. Wayland's Smithy is cradled by a blazing ring of fall foliage. The very definition of a timeless landscape. 🍁 #History #Mythology

The stone tablet reads: In loving memory of Alexander Mackenzie, merchant, Glasgow, died 31st January 1875, aged 62 years Alice Melrose his wife, died 4th January 1900, aged 82 years Four other (presumably) family members are interred and listed, James, Agnes Nelson, Alexander Whitson, and James. Photo credit: Lorraine Murray, 2025

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 is #Colour
It has to be this fabulous cast iron monument by the Sun Foundry to commemorate the Mackenzie family in the Upsilon compartment of the #Glasgow #Necropolis
It has been restored recently, and I think it looks great!
#Gothic
#DarkTourist
#Cemetery
#Taphophile

Women and girls of the pit bank, 1875. Shocking to relate, they enjoyed 'frolics and pastimes' in the pub with men once a week. They earned 2 shillings (10p) a day for shovelling and sorting coal. #mining #staffordshire

Red Pump Garage with two pavement level old Shell pumps. Signs in the window proclaim 'Sorry out of fuel ever since 8 gallons cost over £1 ' & 'Green Shield stamps no longer given'

High Street, Great Missenden.

A photograph of a brown embroidered ribbon on a black background. The ribbon is curled on the right hand side, and decorated with embroidery, including green plants and white and yellow flowers. Ribbon, embroidered, ca. 1600, English https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O10418/ribbon-unknown/ ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2025

📢 In Case You Missed It 📢

October's 'Will of the Month' post is now live on our blog 📜

When Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540, she made a nuncupative or 'oral' will, leaving ribbons to the women who witnessed her declare her final wishes.

Read more here👇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A wide grey granite headstone is dedicated to as follows "In Loving Memory of Thomas Blue Baker and Confectioner Died 3rd Nov. 1937 aged 48 years also his son Alastair Farquhar, R.A.F. Killed 3rd Dec. 1943, and interred in Brandon, Manitoba aged 21 years Alice Farquhar Wife of Thomas and Mother of Alastair Died 14th March 1974 aged 82 years" Photo credit: Pixturmn on FindaGrave

#31DaysofGraves #Day30 #Colour In Scotland, the Surname BLUE is almost entirely confined to the west and its islands. One would think it pretty rare, until you scroll through a census and find villages significantly populated by Blues. This particular stone is in Kilkerran Cemetery in Campbeltown.

Welcome to #BigScreenThursday*

Today I’ve been exploring Wiltshire in the company of Christopher Greenwood and his 1820 Map of the County of Wilts ‘from actual survey’. And a very fine piece of work it is too…

@natlibscot.bsky.social

* it’s a thing

For centuries, the kirk sessions of the Church of #Scotland served as local law courts — including disciplining people for "blasphemy, swearing and failure to observe the Sabbath". Find out more with our guide:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

Uncover Family Mysteries with Free Access to Death Records This Halloween - MyHeritage Blog Halloween is the perfect time to explore the mysteries in your family’s story. From October 30 to November 2, MyHeritage is offering free access to more

MyHeritage is currently offering free access to more than 1.5 billion death, burial, cemetery, and obituary records – 18 collections in this category have been added or updated since last Halloween.

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudies #GenHour

Who could resist a Whit Sunday in 19th century Wakefield? 🤺

Sir George Snygge, lawyer and politician, 1617 in St Stephen, Bristol. The memorial was 'repaird at the cost of Thomas Hodges Esq the grand sonn of the afore said George Snygge', and looks as if it has been repainted since.

#31DaysofGraves 30: colour

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 Colour. Changing colours and crunchy leaves make for a perfect Autumn walk in Warriston. #Edinburgh #Autumn #WarristonCemetery

Celebrating Local and Place-Based History: Westmorland and the 250th VCH ‘Big Red Book’ People, Place and Community Seminar

#ICYMI - we are celebrating the publication of our 250th #BigRedBook, and our first publication for the historic county of #Westmorland.

In September we had an event to mark this and to place the volume in the context of the series and to showcase the extraordinary work behind it. #Skystorians

Will definitely be dipping into this database for my #OnePlaceStudy!

Heading over to Bury again soon - I always remember the first time I saw the Hobbit Houses. I had to blink twice when I first saw them.

A house infilled into the remains of the west front of the Abbey of St. Edmund, Bury St. Edmunds. #throwbackthursday

'Fetching in the lines', fisherwoman Lizzie Alice Hawksfield, Whitby, late 19th century, photo by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (1853-1941).

Book cover for "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940", by Gareth Roddy

Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2

Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2

Another colourful headstone in Toowong Cemetery

The Clutterbuck family headstone covered in yellow lichen in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 7A, Section 116, Grave 30. Friends of Toowong Cemetery is a volunteer group that discover and share the history and stories of Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 30 - Colour

The Clutterbuck family is buried in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 7A, Section 116, Grave 30.

Yellow lichen has made their headstone a standout in the cemetery.

Memorial Inscriptions: Jones < More Waters Upton Memorial Inscriptions / MIs in the churchyard Waters Upton churchyard MIs: JONES INAffectionate Remembrance ofJANE,THE BELOVED WIFE OF JOSEPH JONES,OF WAT…

#31DaysOfGraves Day 29: Occupation

Censuses recorded Joseph Jones, who lived at Waters Upton (my main #OnePlaceStudy parish) from c1863, as an agricultural labourer or a waggoner. His gravestone however notes that he was also “parish clerk and sexton of this parish for 32 years.” #OnePlaceWednesday