Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡
@allthosebefore.bsky.social
Family historian, blogger, podcast guest and speaker. Pharos student. Also Mum, wife, and full-time public servant of 33 years and counting. Fuelled alternatively by coffee and wine.
#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudy
www.allthosebefore.org.uk
#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudy
www.allthosebefore.org.uk
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Several people have commented about Ancestry's updated #DNA ethnicity estimates over the past 24 hours. I've written a short blog post about how mine have changed. To sum up: more Dutch, no longer Scottish. I also stand in solidarity with the people of #Yorkshire!
www.allthosebefore.co.uk?p=779
www.allthosebefore.co.uk?p=779
For anyone researching either #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory or indeed many other types of history in London, do look at www.layersoflondon.org if you’re not aware of it already.
*Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for the time you spend exploring.
*Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for the time you spend exploring.
Explore our unique, historic map layers
| Layers of London
www.layersoflondon.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:32 PM
For anyone researching either #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory or indeed many other types of history in London, do look at www.layersoflondon.org if you’re not aware of it already.
*Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for the time you spend exploring.
*Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for the time you spend exploring.
Something new for the next three days: a short course all about maps at @ihr.bsky.social.
January 28, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Something new for the next three days: a short course all about maps at @ihr.bsky.social.
Yesterday evening I discovered that the person I was researching took his own life. He was a farmer, and his death occurred at the end of December. All the farm workers and servants had been paid off for ‘clearing day’ so the farm was quiet. His widow moved to the farm where my MIL would later live.
January 27, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Yesterday evening I discovered that the person I was researching took his own life. He was a farmer, and his death occurred at the end of December. All the farm workers and servants had been paid off for ‘clearing day’ so the farm was quiet. His widow moved to the farm where my MIL would later live.
#HolocaustMemorialDay - never forget. I saw these Stolpersteine in Sophienstraße in Berlin.
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 AM
#HolocaustMemorialDay - never forget. I saw these Stolpersteine in Sophienstraße in Berlin.
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I am partially deaf because of measles. Please vaccinate it's so important.
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I am partially deaf because of measles. Please vaccinate it's so important.
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A Few Forgotten Women article by Margaret Roberts in this month's Really Useful Bulletin www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/forgott... Do check it out #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
Forgotten Women Article
One of our team, Margaret Roberts, has written a beautiful article about A Few Forgotten Women and the work we do. It features Sarah Wildblood, who Margaret researched for our 1819 Forgotten Women Fri...
www.fewforgottenwomen.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
A Few Forgotten Women article by Margaret Roberts in this month's Really Useful Bulletin www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/forgott... Do check it out #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
A great escape for some fresh air and a dog walk earlier. Unfortunately, at this time of year Luca gets muddy all the time, so it was home for a bath afterwards.
January 24, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A great escape for some fresh air and a dog walk earlier. Unfortunately, at this time of year Luca gets muddy all the time, so it was home for a bath afterwards.
Great article, @researchdogsbody.bsky.social 😊
A Few Forgotten Women article by Margaret Roberts in this month's Really Useful Bulletin www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/forgott... Do check it out #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
Forgotten Women Article
One of our team, Margaret Roberts, has written a beautiful article about A Few Forgotten Women and the work we do. It features Sarah Wildblood, who Margaret researched for our 1819 Forgotten Women Fri...
www.fewforgottenwomen.com
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Great article, @researchdogsbody.bsky.social 😊
Even more to look forward to!
We can add the following two names to our list of speakers for the RQG Conference in Birmingham (25 April 2026): David Ryan and Nicholas Dixon!
Registration is open: www.qualifiedgenealogists.org/2026-confere...
#genealogy #familyhistory #rqg
Registration is open: www.qualifiedgenealogists.org/2026-confere...
#genealogy #familyhistory #rqg
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Even more to look forward to!
I thought I’d see if I could find my grandparents’ old house from 1933. Here it is, although I’m unsure if it’s just been modernised or completely rebuilt. It’s rather fitting for #PostboxSaturday too. 😉
January 24, 2026 at 9:46 AM
I thought I’d see if I could find my grandparents’ old house from 1933. Here it is, although I’m unsure if it’s just been modernised or completely rebuilt. It’s rather fitting for #PostboxSaturday too. 😉
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An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
January 24, 2026 at 8:17 AM
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
#NationalHandwritingDay - a letter sent from my great-grandfather in #Huddersfield to my grandfather in Lincoln.
January 23, 2026 at 12:16 PM
#NationalHandwritingDay - a letter sent from my great-grandfather in #Huddersfield to my grandfather in Lincoln.
So sad to read that Peter Calver, best known to the #FamilyHistory community as the founder of Lost Cousins, has died.
I had the privilege of speaking to him briefly at the Secrets and Lies conference last year, and it was through his website that I discovered I’m related to his wife, Sîan.
I had the privilege of speaking to him briefly at the Secrets and Lies conference last year, and it was through his website that I discovered I’m related to his wife, Sîan.
January 23, 2026 at 8:06 AM
So sad to read that Peter Calver, best known to the #FamilyHistory community as the founder of Lost Cousins, has died.
I had the privilege of speaking to him briefly at the Secrets and Lies conference last year, and it was through his website that I discovered I’m related to his wife, Sîan.
I had the privilege of speaking to him briefly at the Secrets and Lies conference last year, and it was through his website that I discovered I’m related to his wife, Sîan.
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What a fascinating story.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Seen this, @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social ?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Seen this, @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social ?
A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot
The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still...
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
What a fascinating story.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Seen this, @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social ?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Seen this, @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social ?
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This Lapwing might be the #BirdOfTheDay on the theme of #TailsUp
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This Lapwing might be the #BirdOfTheDay on the theme of #TailsUp
What a wonderful evening with @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social listening to Nick Barratt talking about industrial occupations. A good reminder of how seemingly different branches of historical research are intrinsically linked: family, local, social, economic, political … it’s all about context!
January 21, 2026 at 10:56 PM
What a wonderful evening with @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social listening to Nick Barratt talking about industrial occupations. A good reminder of how seemingly different branches of historical research are intrinsically linked: family, local, social, economic, political … it’s all about context!
More books! 🤭 Trying to carve out some reading time.
January 20, 2026 at 10:36 PM
More books! 🤭 Trying to carve out some reading time.
Wonderful living family news today. My niece has formally been accredited as a RGN nurse and will start a new job on the neurological ward at Addenbrookes’ Hospital in Cambridge next month.
January 20, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Wonderful living family news today. My niece has formally been accredited as a RGN nurse and will start a new job on the neurological ward at Addenbrookes’ Hospital in Cambridge next month.
That’s a stonkingly large piece of cheese!
When you find an incredible advertisement while cataloguing a mid-20th century archive but have no-one to show it to - and then #NationalCheeseLoversDay comes along...
January 20, 2026 at 12:28 PM
That’s a stonkingly large piece of cheese!
A fascinating insight into serving with the Royal Navy at the end of WW2. So many photos too!
<Memo to self: get scanning>
<Memo to self: get scanning>
Wonderful!! I had similar from Mr P's family and spent a blissful few months scanning tiny photos at high-res and piecing together my father-in-law's story from around the same time. Some had info on the back and Google Images helped with locations... funnywherelifetakesyou.org/2025/05/16/w...
Witness to surrender: Far East 1945-46
Peter Poulton (1925-2004) left behind photographs and letters that illuminate his wartime experiences in the Far East during and after World War II
funnywherelifetakesyou.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:21 PM
A fascinating insight into serving with the Royal Navy at the end of WW2. So many photos too!
<Memo to self: get scanning>
<Memo to self: get scanning>
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I wish to brighten up this #BlueMonday with a beautiful January sunrise. 🤗
Nature is a wonderful source of joy.
🦢☀️🦢
River Great Ouse - The Fens - Cambridgeshire
Nature is a wonderful source of joy.
🦢☀️🦢
River Great Ouse - The Fens - Cambridgeshire
January 19, 2026 at 8:57 PM
I wish to brighten up this #BlueMonday with a beautiful January sunrise. 🤗
Nature is a wonderful source of joy.
🦢☀️🦢
River Great Ouse - The Fens - Cambridgeshire
Nature is a wonderful source of joy.
🦢☀️🦢
River Great Ouse - The Fens - Cambridgeshire
I don’t do nails, but never judge.
I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.
Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM
January 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I don’t do nails, but never judge.
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✨🌳 Over in Wells last week I don't think I've experienced anything as organically arborous as the retro choir at Wells. I took this with my tilt-shift lens to try and convey the feeling.
January 19, 2026 at 7:36 AM
✨🌳 Over in Wells last week I don't think I've experienced anything as organically arborous as the retro choir at Wells. I took this with my tilt-shift lens to try and convey the feeling.
Reposted by Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 732:
When times are bleak, art shines a light. Shine on. You’re not alone.
When times are bleak, art shines a light. Shine on. You’re not alone.
January 19, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 732:
When times are bleak, art shines a light. Shine on. You’re not alone.
When times are bleak, art shines a light. Shine on. You’re not alone.
I’d like to think that after having had this stupid virus for four weeks I’d be fully recovered. But I’ve just sneezed 6 times in quick succession. Same one or new one?
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I’d like to think that after having had this stupid virus for four weeks I’d be fully recovered. But I’ve just sneezed 6 times in quick succession. Same one or new one?