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By Roz, on December 18th, 2006% John has come up with a beta tree for uploading onto this site, as I have well over 1200 individuals listed in my tree and it is getting increasingly difficult to keep track of what I have blogged or not blogged already…you need to see the tree! Where do you draw “the line”? Do you include all or only dead people in your tree? Do you cut the tree off at a specific generation band? Do you remove all those born after date X whether living or dead?
What we are hoping to do is to cut the tree off . . . → Read More: Data Privacy
By Roz, on December 7th, 2006% It’s all too easy to assume that the whole world and its secrets are to be found on the internet.
But after weeks of frustrated efforts trying to find out more about my great grandfather’s second wife, I gave up on the web and walked to the local library.
Upstairs in the reference section I found the entire collection of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and also the full set of “Who Was Who” and Index, all published by A&C Black, London. If you find an ancestor in the former, then congratulations, you have a famous (or . . . → Read More: The Library: technically known as a “good thing”
By John, on November 14th, 2006% I may have mentioned in the post about James Inglis that he published several books. One of those books was about his early life growing up in the Mearns (Kincardineshire) in Scotland called ‘Oor Ain Folk; being memories of manse life in the Mearns and a crack aboot auld times’. This was published in 1894.
I’ve recently ordered it on the Internet from a bookseller in Australia (Haymes & Son) though it’s not the only place to sell it. It’s surprisingly ubiquitous and even appears in lists of various genealogical societies’ libraries. I’ve got an extract from a . . . → Read More: A Crack Aboot Auld Times
By John, on October 24th, 2006% Roz has received a copy of the book “Naval Hygiene” by her great-grandfather Rear-Admiral Thomas Brown Shaw RN DSC, to give him his full title. He published it in 1929. We know there exists a copy in the British Library, the War Memorial museum in Melbourne (or is it Canberra?), Australia and her grandfather also has a copy but it’s nice to have our own as part of our genealogical archive. Haven’t had a look at it myself yet, will do that when I get home from work.
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