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Family Tree Magazine @familytreemag.bsky.social · 2d

Every cemetery visit this week counts as both research and seasonal enrichment. #genealogy

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Aldbourne Archive @aldbournearchive.bsky.social · 24d

John Veitch (1856 - 1920), Royal Navy, then Coastguard at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex and in retirement landlord at both the Crown and Blue Boar pubs in Aldbourne. Remembered at the weekend at the St Michael's Church Discovery Day - our village links with the sea
#31DaysOfGraves #OnePlaceWednesday

The grave of John and Emily Veitch in Aldbourne churchyard shows an anchor on the cross

The grave of John and Emily Veitch in Aldbourne churchyard shows an anchor on the cross. This photo shows a close up of the anchor.

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 3d

My Grand Aunt Kate Sexton nee Albon lived at Frating Hall in 1939 moving to Elmstead Market before the Commune started and for a period in the early 1960's I lived in Frating Hall Cottages opposite the Parish Church.

Essex Society for Family History (NEW)

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 5d

A recent email from @sfhs1975.bsky.social offering some BMD data cds to members made me check my CD Drawer & found about 30 Essex & Suffolk FH CD's that seemed so important as recently as 5 years ago now almost never fired up as the info in there is online. How things have changed since microfiche!

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 7d

Essex FHS meeting - DNA Surgery
Led by: Toni Neobard, Jeff Porter, Mary Rix & Trevor Rix
Wednesday 29 October 2025 at 7.15pm More info from www.esfh.org.uk

West Essex Branch of Essex Society for Family History

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 9d

A nice event at Sudbury on Sunday by Sudbury branch of Suffolk FHS

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 9d

Essex FHS West Essex Branch- Talk: My Wartime Ancestor - What did they do? Speakers: Elizabeth Cox & Friends
Saturday 25 October 2025 at 2:30pm
More details at www.facebook.com/WestEssexFam...

West Essex Branch of Essex Society for Family History. 11 likes. Charity Organization

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 17d

Christopher Thompson has rightly posed the question to @essex.gov.uk as to what will happen to Essex Record Office should the proposed 3 way split of the County take place. It would be a tragedy to break up spendid ERO to several parts. I suspect a similar threat for other county record offices.

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 26d

This lovely little poem is so true of life but also rings a bell for family historians tracing people whose name in the records changes over the years making our verification so difficult.

Ian Kremer @leadcoalition.bsky.social · Jul 5

Who we are on the inside is not always how we are viewed on the outside.

#poetry #Alzheimers #dementia

"Names" by Wendy Cope

She was Eliza for a few weeks
When she was a baby –
Eliza Lilly. Soon it changed to Lil.

` Later she was Miss Steward in the baker’s shop
And then ‘my love’, ‘my darling’, Mother.

Widowed at thirty, she went back to work
As Mrs Hand. Her daughter grew up,
Married and gave birth.

Now she was Nanna. ‘Everybody
Calls me Nanna,’ she would say to visitors.
And so they did – friends, tradesmen, the doctor.

In the geriatric ward
They used the patients’ Christian names.
‘Lil’,’ we said, ‘or Nanna.’

But it wasn’t in her file
And for those last bewildered weeks
She was Eliza once again.

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 28d

Essex FHS North East Branch - Talk ( live and zoom) Getting the most from the UK Censuses by Toni Neobard on Saturday 11 October 2025 at at 2:30pm more details from www.esfh.org.uk/branches/col...

Branches of The Essex Society for Family History

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · 29d

To get to @suffolkarchives.bsky.social or @sfhs1975.bsky.social from Essex, Park and ride bus from copdock is best.They run every 20 mins.The stop you need in town is "Adj. Fore Street" in Grimwade St. a short walk down the road to Fore Street, turn left and the Hold is 100 yds on your left.

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Oct 1

Rootsmagic is my personal FH software of choice and I have just made the £19.95 upgrade to the UK Rootsmagic11 and so far it looks a much cleaner and more intuitive program than RM10. Its a shame that while @rootsmagic.bsky.social have registered they are not yet posting on Blue Sky.

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Oct 1

Essex FHS South East Branch talk - It's DNA all the way!
by Mandie Adams on Saturday 4 October 2025 at 2:30pm
More details from www.esfh.org.uk/branches/sen...

Branches of The Essex Society for Family History

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Oct 1

That's a shame but worth waiting a little longer to get things right. Thanks for your help.

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Sep 30

When I visit Freebmd2 I get a requirement to enter a name and password. Do you know if that is the norm or is it my computer?

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Sep 26

Other than the big sites; favourite resources for me its Essex FHS Parish Records database www.esfh.org.uk/pages/dbsand... and Helen Barrells site Essex and Suffolk Surnames essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Sep 24

West Essex Branch of Essex FHS talk - Life of a Bomber Crew in WW2 Speaker: Mike Wainright 2.30 Saturday 27 September 2025
For more info - www.esfh.org.uk/branches/har...

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Sep 21

Essex FHS have a really interesting Zoom talk on the effect for good and bad AI has on historic photos - Is Artificial Intelligence a help or hindrance to photo restoration and research by Steve Gill at 7pm on Wed 24 September 2025 More details from www.esfh.org.uk

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Sep 11

The time that I felt under most pressure deciphering handwriting recently was in Sainsbury's three weeks ago when I was entrusted to the shopping by my wife & was given a quickly handwritten list full of abbreviations with a stern - do not forget anything! Who knew that pk ct meant pack of carrots?

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Sep 11

@sfhs1975.bsky.social have just released a new BMD CD to add to their great collection - The new one is Colneis and Samford Deaneries 1538-1649 . Not yet in their shop but will be there very soon. suffolkfhs.co.uk/shop/index.p...

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lost Cousins newsletter has a good suggestion for the many errors in Ancestry family trees. Open tree .. top right click tools then view comments and a button at the bottom is add comment. You can then make a comment on the correct details so that people viewing the page don't just blindly copy.

Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Aug 17

Essex FHS meeting Topic: Ragged, poor and mischievous or young thieves and Street Arabs - Speaker: Linda Hammond
Date: Saturday 23 August 2025 2:30pm
Explore a fascinating and often overlooked area of genealogy children labelled as criminals throughout history.
www.facebook.com/WestEssexFam...

West Essex Branch of Essex Society for Family History. 11 likes. Charity Organization

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Grandmas Essex @grandmasessex.bsky.social · Jul 27

Good news from ‪Suffolk Archive mailing list is that their BMD records for most of Suffolk will be available on ancestry from 14 August 2025 after digitalization.Now lets hope that ‪@suffolkarchives.bsky.social‬ start posting on blue sky soon to complement the great posts from @sfhs1975.bsky.social

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dengie100.bsky.social @dengie100.bsky.social · Jul 16

Great event at Althorne