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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 8h

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

New Free Historical Records from 7 Countries | October 2025 Update from #FamilySearch

www.familysearch.org/en/blog/new-...

New Records on FamilySearch October 2025 • FamilySearch

FamilySearch adds millions of free historical records every month. See new records from Italy, the Philippines, Ukraine and more!

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 8h

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

At the BNA there is only one update/new title this week, which I did post about earlier in the week

🚩𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐞: 1964-1993 - which represents the whole run of this iconic teenage magazine

Images of the covers of the first 8 copies of Jackie magazine featuring pictures of 1960s pop stars including Cliff Richard, Elvis Presley and the Beatles

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 8h

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FindMyPast

Nothing new for the UK/Ireland again at Ancestry this week 😢

3 new datasets for the USA, details in the screenshot below, with #AltText as usual

Updates at Ancestry - Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., Land Title Transactions, 1920-1940; Franklin County, Indiana, U.S., Marriage Records, 1821-1997; Franklin County, Indiana, U.S., Probate Records, 1821-1945

The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 8h

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

At @findmypast.bsky.social new monumental records feature

🚩𝐂𝐳𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬
🚩𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲, 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
🚩𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟏 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐞

Link to blog with full details 👉
www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/jac...

Explore new monumental records and a magazine that defined a generation | Blog

Delve into teenage nostalgia, European records and more.

www.findmypast.co.uk

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1d

We’ve archived 1 trillion web pages via the Wayback Machine. Help us preserve 1 trillion more with P2P fundraising: donate.archive.org/1T

#Wayback1T

Graphic with pixelated, 3D-styled webpage icons radiating outward from a bright point. Center text reads: "Fundraise with us! Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived."

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ChesterArchSoc @chesterarchsoc.bsky.social · 1d

DYK: We offer a grant of £1000 every two years for the study of finds reported to findsorguk.bsky.social from #Cheshire, the results to be published in our journal. You can find out mor here: chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk/grants-and-a....

Grants & Awards – Chester Archaeological Society

chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

Appeal launched to preserve the last flying Vulcan bomber. 👇
BBC News - Appeal launched to preserve last flying Vulcan bomber - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Appeal launched to preserve last flying Vulcan bomber

The trust which looks after Vulcan XH558 in South Yorkshire says it is under

www.bbc.co.uk

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NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social · 13d

Today is the anniversary of the deaths of the 'Nine Men of Madeley'. Of the nine 'men', most were still boys who died in a mining disaster. I have rewritten my article to reflect new research about the tragedy.

nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-...

#history #localhistory

The Nine Men Of Madeley

I want to take us back to St Michael’s churchyard in Madeley now, for there are still more stories to be told. Let us pause amongst the head...

nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 1d

Latest Lost Cousins newsletter is now out

Link 👉 www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2...

8/10/2025 LostCousins Bewsletter

www.lostcousins.com

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OldPostcards4sale @oldpostcards4sale.bsky.social · 1d

Our new website is up and running! We now sell all our postcards in our Ebay shop , full info here www.oldpostcards4sale.co.uk

Old Postcards: Vintage Postcards For Sale Online

Old Postcards for sale online. We buy old British postcards

www.oldpostcards4sale.co.uk

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 1d

John Lennon's banjo being unveiled alongside a mosaic featuring nearly 1,300 images of John Lennon at Strawberry Field, Liverpool to mark what would have been his 85th birthday. 👇
BBC News - John Lennon's banjo goes on show on what would have been his 85th - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

John Lennon's banjo goes on show on what would have been his 85th

John Lennon's original band The Quarrymen will perform to mark 85 years since his birth.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 7d

Many are the stately homes of Britain cursed with an apparition that foretells a death. This placid drawing of the Combermere Abbey, #Cheshire, ghost fails to reflect a dramatic 1870 account of it running round and round the eyewitness's bed "in a wild and distressed way".
#PhantomsFriday #folklore

An 1898 illustration by A S Hartrick, scanned from a copy of Harmondsworth's Magazine. It shows a woman in the contemporary Victorian dress, carrying candle and shocked to see the translucent apparition of a girl in an outfit dating perhaps from the 17th century.

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Helen @helen60.bsky.social · 6d

My great-grandad's stepfather Samuel Heap. Reprimanded by the Chief Constable more than once e.g. for being found in bed drunk and "behind a haystack in the company of PC Arthur" he was also commended by the Chief Constable for apprehending 7 deserters and obtained 4 good conduct badges. #genealogy

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Miss History G, Linda @misshistoryg2.bsky.social · 5d

Stained Glass Window, Cheshire.
Lovely orange medieval glass in a plain leaded window at a country church. The church was built in 1511, but this German stained glass was a replacement for some heraldic glass moved elsewhere.
#Stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #glass #stainedglass #churches #Cheshire

A colour photograph in portrait format. It shows a plain leaded window in a church. Added to the central section is this amazing medieval German glass in shades of orange and red.

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CocoaNoko @cocoanoko.bsky.social · 3d

The trees of Alderley Edge are all just a bit special

#thicktrunktuesday #treetuesday #trees #alderleyedge #cheshire #blackandwhitephotogtaphy #classicmono #photohour

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Jackie Depelle @jackiedepelle.bsky.social · 2d

Essential reading for #FamilyHiistory #LocalHistory and #HouseHistory @balhnews.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social

Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social · 3d

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 4d

BNA and newspapers at @findmypast.bsky.social have added

Jackie: 1964-1993

Memories of teenage years come flooding back

Front cover of the fist issue of Jackie magazine, with an image of a very young Cliff Richard

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 4d

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇
BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public

The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

www.bbc.com

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 4d

#WhatsOn this week at @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social

Helpdesk sessions at #Chester #Tameside and #Wallasey

#ComputerClub meeting via Zoom on Wednesday

To join FHSC 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk

All Events 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/events.html

How to join our Discussion Groups see 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/subscribe-un...

Pinboard with FHSC Events picked out in post-it notes

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CocoaNoko @cocoanoko.bsky.social · 7d

Misty woods at Alderley Edge

#landscape #forestscape #scape #photography #trees #alderleyedge #cheshire #legends #photohour #inthewoods #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmono

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 7d

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

A mixed selection of updated/new titles at the BNA this week, nothing for #Cheshire, but interesting new title

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐩𝐢𝐞: 1882, 1884-1886
A bit of eccentric Midlands satire!

Full list of all updates in the screenshots below. with Alt Text as usual

Updates to the BNA, part 1 -
Whiskey Trade Review (Dublin); The Queen; Swansea Journal, Commercial, Literary, and Agricultural Advertiser; Sunday Post; Southern Star (Skibbereen); Portsmouth Evening News; Morning Post; Matrimonial Post and Fashionable Marriage Advertiser; Magpie; London and China Telegraph

Updates to the BNA, part 2

London Courier and Evening Gazette; Bury Times; Birmingham Town Crier; Banbury Beacon; Arbroath Herald

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 7d

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

Nothing new for the UK at #Ancestry this week, three new databases from the States, details in the screenshot below, with Alt Text as usual

New databases from Ancestry week ending 3rd October 2025

Louisiana, U.S., State Birth Records, 1911-1923; U.S., Revolutionary War Burial Index, 1775-1875; Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., Dexter Asylum and Almshouse Records, 1828-1956

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 7d

. @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

New additions from #Suffolk and #London this week at @findmypast.bsky.social

🚩𝐒𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤, 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬' 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬
5,373 inquests spanning 1767 to 1921
🚩𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐬
918 new records 1657 to 1841

Link to blog 👉
www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/wil...

Understand the milestones of your ancestors' lives with new baptism and coroners' records | Blog

There are new additions from Suffolk and London to explore this week.

www.findmypast.co.uk

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Miss History G, Linda @misshistoryg2.bsky.social · 8d

Walled Garden, Tatton Park from 2016
A beautiful gate and door open to invite you inside.
#TattonPark #Cheshire #PalacesAndGardens #gates #PhotoOfTheDay #monochrome #PhotographyLovers

A black and white photograph in landscape format. It shows an old brick wall with a beautiful wooden door and metal gate in an arch shape within two lovely pillars. A walled garden is inside the walls.

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 9d

First of the month 🐰🐰 so my usual list of #Free online events from various organisations

For the list, with links for further details and registration information 👉 www.fhsc.org.uk/free-events-...

Word Cloud in the shape of a tree with FREE as the most important word

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