Kelly Cornwell
@whoamiftr.bsky.social
Who Am I? Professional Genealogist, Tutor (with Pharos Tutors) and Family History Speaker. Tells tales about Transportation to Tasmania.
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Kelly Cornwell
@whoamiftr.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Why Genealogy is a Basic Human Need
Many of us have become obsessed with family history over the years; whether that be due to catching the bug after watching one of the numerous genealogy tv shows, or having a burning question about…
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Researching family history is integral to understanding who you are.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Black Friday sale! Pharos are offering 15% off ALL our family history, local history, genetic genealogy, one place and one name courses, until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. For T&C see www.pharostutors.com/black-friday... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Black Friday sale! Pharos are offering 15% off ALL our family history, local history, genetic genealogy, one place and one name courses, until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. For T&C see www.pharostutors.com/black-friday... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses
Argh! Ancestry's collection of British Phone Books, 1880-1984 is broken! It won't let you enter a County, and you cannot conduct a search without entering a County!
a man in a purple sweater is sitting in front of a window .
ALT: a man in a purple sweater is sitting in front of a window .
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November 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Argh! Ancestry's collection of British Phone Books, 1880-1984 is broken! It won't let you enter a County, and you cannot conduct a search without entering a County!
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Digging Deeper: Mastering Online Genealogy Research. This course examines the main types of internet resource which are useful in carrying out research in English and Welsh family history. www.pharostutors.com/digging-deep...
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Digging Deeper: Mastering Online Genealogy Research. This course examines the main types of internet resource which are useful in carrying out research in English and Welsh family history. www.pharostutors.com/digging-deep...
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Tracing Postal Workers – 4 Dec 2025, 14:00
Join Susannah Coster (Royal Mail Archive) for a guide to researching ancestors who worked for the British postal service.
Attend in-person at SoG or watch online.
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
Join Susannah Coster (Royal Mail Archive) for a guide to researching ancestors who worked for the British postal service.
Attend in-person at SoG or watch online.
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Tracing Postal Workers – 4 Dec 2025, 14:00
Join Susannah Coster (Royal Mail Archive) for a guide to researching ancestors who worked for the British postal service.
Attend in-person at SoG or watch online.
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
Join Susannah Coster (Royal Mail Archive) for a guide to researching ancestors who worked for the British postal service.
Attend in-person at SoG or watch online.
Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Event/view/1...
Black Friday sale! We are offering 15% off ALL of our courses from now until the end of 1st December. Use code FRIDAY15 at checkout. Terms and conditions here: www.pharostutors.com/black-friday...
Please spread the word!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses #BlackFriday2025
Please spread the word!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Ancestry #OnlineCourses #BlackFriday2025
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is great!
@pharostutors.bsky.social are featured in the FamilyTreeDNA Gift Guide!
I LOVE being a Pharos Tutor 🥰
@pharostutors.bsky.social are featured in the FamilyTreeDNA Gift Guide!
I LOVE being a Pharos Tutor 🥰
#FamilyTreeDNA have pulled together a guide to #genealogy #courses as part of their Gift Guide series, and we are delighted to see our DNA courses featured. Read the full post here:
blog.familytreedna.com/top-genealog...
#Ancestry
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#Ancestry
Top Genealogy Education Gifts – FamilyTreeDNA Gift Guide 2025
Support the family historian in your life with genealogy education gifts that strengthen their research skills and deepen their connection to the past.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This is great!
@pharostutors.bsky.social are featured in the FamilyTreeDNA Gift Guide!
I LOVE being a Pharos Tutor 🥰
@pharostutors.bsky.social are featured in the FamilyTreeDNA Gift Guide!
I LOVE being a Pharos Tutor 🥰
Another view to make it easier.
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Another view to make it easier.
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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What are your favourite names of direct ancestors?
My Top 10 are:
Hephzibah Priest
Comfort Smith
Rosson Martin
Olliff Foster
Maria Apollonia Hofen
Peggy Sharp
Jemima Petty
Pascha Bakewell
Henry Muggleston
Matthias Thacker
#familyhistory
My Top 10 are:
Hephzibah Priest
Comfort Smith
Rosson Martin
Olliff Foster
Maria Apollonia Hofen
Peggy Sharp
Jemima Petty
Pascha Bakewell
Henry Muggleston
Matthias Thacker
#familyhistory
November 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
What are your favourite names of direct ancestors?
My Top 10 are:
Hephzibah Priest
Comfort Smith
Rosson Martin
Olliff Foster
Maria Apollonia Hofen
Peggy Sharp
Jemima Petty
Pascha Bakewell
Henry Muggleston
Matthias Thacker
#familyhistory
My Top 10 are:
Hephzibah Priest
Comfort Smith
Rosson Martin
Olliff Foster
Maria Apollonia Hofen
Peggy Sharp
Jemima Petty
Pascha Bakewell
Henry Muggleston
Matthias Thacker
#familyhistory
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VisionOfBritain has been down for half an hour. Typical when I'm right in the middle of adding statistics to a house history report 😭
VisionOfBritain has been down for half an hour. Typical when I'm right in the middle of adding statistics to a house history report 😭
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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VisionOfBritain has been down for half an hour. Typical when I'm right in the middle of adding statistics to a house history report 😭
VisionOfBritain has been down for half an hour. Typical when I'm right in the middle of adding statistics to a house history report 😭
Must not be distracted. Must not be distracted.
Trying to be disciplined & not be tempted to follow the story (unrelated to my project) of an Essex farmer who, after having a gelding stolen, pursued the thief to Manchester then to Lancaster where he was executed, became a special constable.
Trying to be disciplined & not be tempted to follow the story (unrelated to my project) of an Essex farmer who, after having a gelding stolen, pursued the thief to Manchester then to Lancaster where he was executed, became a special constable.
a man is holding his head with his eyes closed and the words focus focus focus behind him .
ALT: a man is holding his head with his eyes closed and the words focus focus focus behind him .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Must not be distracted. Must not be distracted.
Trying to be disciplined & not be tempted to follow the story (unrelated to my project) of an Essex farmer who, after having a gelding stolen, pursued the thief to Manchester then to Lancaster where he was executed, became a special constable.
Trying to be disciplined & not be tempted to follow the story (unrelated to my project) of an Essex farmer who, after having a gelding stolen, pursued the thief to Manchester then to Lancaster where he was executed, became a special constable.
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Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Fancy a read about a London (and its surroundings), that never quite came to pass?
If you've heard of the 'Ringways' scheme or not, this is absolutely fascinating (and exactly the sort of thing we include in our histories which come right up to the date of publication). #Skystorians
If you've heard of the 'Ringways' scheme or not, this is absolutely fascinating (and exactly the sort of thing we include in our histories which come right up to the date of publication). #Skystorians
Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...
Would your home have been under a motorway?
"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.
substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Fancy a read about a London (and its surroundings), that never quite came to pass?
If you've heard of the 'Ringways' scheme or not, this is absolutely fascinating (and exactly the sort of thing we include in our histories which come right up to the date of publication). #Skystorians
If you've heard of the 'Ringways' scheme or not, this is absolutely fascinating (and exactly the sort of thing we include in our histories which come right up to the date of publication). #Skystorians
Apologies for the delay in sharing this blog - the last episode in the series of Ancestral Neighbours. My #Menopause brain told me I had already done it 😒🙄
#FamilyHistory #Research
#Genealogy #FamilyTree
#FANMethod #FANApproach
whoamiresearch.com/2025/10/24/a...
#FamilyHistory #Research
#Genealogy #FamilyTree
#FANMethod #FANApproach
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Ancestral Neighbours Episode 6
So here we are, the sixth and final episode of Ancestral Neighbours. Thank you so much for following the series. If you missed any of the previous installments, you can catch up here with Episodes …
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November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Apologies for the delay in sharing this blog - the last episode in the series of Ancestral Neighbours. My #Menopause brain told me I had already done it 😒🙄
#FamilyHistory #Research
#Genealogy #FamilyTree
#FANMethod #FANApproach
whoamiresearch.com/2025/10/24/a...
#FamilyHistory #Research
#Genealogy #FamilyTree
#FANMethod #FANApproach
whoamiresearch.com/2025/10/24/a...
This is great! Making it so much easier to search this fantastic set of records.
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
Item descriptions for STAC 5 (Star Chamber proceedings for Elizabeth I) underwent a significant overhaul this year, updating 40,000 items to include party names, county, and much more. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is great! Making it so much easier to search this fantastic set of records.
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The setting for my talk, 'Country Seats & Sporting Feats', at #TableyHouse this week, very grand, and some of the sporting items that were displayed from the archive to go along with the theme of my talk. Enjoyed it very much and delighted to have been asked back
#FamilyHistory
#SportsHistory
#FamilyHistory
#SportsHistory
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The setting for my talk, 'Country Seats & Sporting Feats', at #TableyHouse this week, very grand, and some of the sporting items that were displayed from the archive to go along with the theme of my talk. Enjoyed it very much and delighted to have been asked back
#FamilyHistory
#SportsHistory
#FamilyHistory
#SportsHistory
This was a great day. So many wonderful organisations representing a variety of intradisciplinary perspectives.
I will definitely be back next year.
#Historians
#History
#HistDay25
I will definitely be back next year.
#Historians
#History
#HistDay25
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for History Day 2025! 🎉
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year!
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
#HistDay25
We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did and we look forward to seeing you again next year!
@senatehouselib.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
#HistDay25
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This was a great day. So many wonderful organisations representing a variety of intradisciplinary perspectives.
I will definitely be back next year.
#Historians
#History
#HistDay25
I will definitely be back next year.
#Historians
#History
#HistDay25
Wow! This is exciting!
(Now I just need to refrain from looking until I get this client report finished 😬)
#MustStayFocused
#DontLookYet
(Now I just need to refrain from looking until I get this client report finished 😬)
#MustStayFocused
#DontLookYet
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! This is exciting!
(Now I just need to refrain from looking until I get this client report finished 😬)
#MustStayFocused
#DontLookYet
(Now I just need to refrain from looking until I get this client report finished 😬)
#MustStayFocused
#DontLookYet
I had a wonderful surprise today - a brief visit from my friend @ozconvictresearch.bsky.social at #HistDay25
It was so lovely to see you. Can’t wait to have a proper catchup (and Lamington) soon ❤️
It was so lovely to see you. Can’t wait to have a proper catchup (and Lamington) soon ❤️
November 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I had a wonderful surprise today - a brief visit from my friend @ozconvictresearch.bsky.social at #HistDay25
It was so lovely to see you. Can’t wait to have a proper catchup (and Lamington) soon ❤️
It was so lovely to see you. Can’t wait to have a proper catchup (and Lamington) soon ❤️
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We’re still checking transcripts of Hearth Tax lists for Yorkshire North Riding before publishing them on Hearth Tax Digital. There are about 11,000 entries on my rough calculation. So checking them all is taking a while. We’ll keep posting tidbits here to whet appetites.
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We’re still checking transcripts of Hearth Tax lists for Yorkshire North Riding before publishing them on Hearth Tax Digital. There are about 11,000 entries on my rough calculation. So checking them all is taking a while. We’ll keep posting tidbits here to whet appetites.
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An eloquent and thoughtful history of the #ForestOfDean, written by a young history student at the University of York. It conveys brilliantly the unique historical context of so many of my ancestors.
theyorkhistorian.com/2025/08/16/h...
theyorkhistorian.com/2025/08/16/h...
Heart of the Forest: The Freeminers of the Royal Forest of Dean
In 1960, Dennis Potter identified something unique about his homeland of the Forest of Dean that made it so special: the sense of a small green world hemmed in by two rivers and two nations. This a…
theyorkhistorian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
An eloquent and thoughtful history of the #ForestOfDean, written by a young history student at the University of York. It conveys brilliantly the unique historical context of so many of my ancestors.
theyorkhistorian.com/2025/08/16/h...
theyorkhistorian.com/2025/08/16/h...
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Hi #GenHour!
🧬 Join us for Genealogical Six Hats.
Learn how to make confident, evidence-based decisions in DNA research with @scientistsoph.bsky.social. Discover Six Hats method for tackling tricky genetic genealogy problems
Tues 4 Nov 2025, 19:00–21:00 (Online)
🎟️ Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
🧬 Join us for Genealogical Six Hats.
Learn how to make confident, evidence-based decisions in DNA research with @scientistsoph.bsky.social. Discover Six Hats method for tackling tricky genetic genealogy problems
Tues 4 Nov 2025, 19:00–21:00 (Online)
🎟️ Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Hi #GenHour!
🧬 Join us for Genealogical Six Hats.
Learn how to make confident, evidence-based decisions in DNA research with @scientistsoph.bsky.social. Discover Six Hats method for tackling tricky genetic genealogy problems
Tues 4 Nov 2025, 19:00–21:00 (Online)
🎟️ Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
🧬 Join us for Genealogical Six Hats.
Learn how to make confident, evidence-based decisions in DNA research with @scientistsoph.bsky.social. Discover Six Hats method for tackling tricky genetic genealogy problems
Tues 4 Nov 2025, 19:00–21:00 (Online)
🎟️ Book: portal.sog.org.uk/Ev...
One of the best decisions I ever made in my professional genealogist career - studying with Pharos. And now I’m an actual Pharos Tutor myself!
#LivingTheDream 🕵🏼♀️🌳📚
#LivingTheDream 🕵🏼♀️🌳📚
Find out how Pharos courses work: www.pharostutors.com/how-courses-... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #DistanceLearning #OnlineCourses #GenealogyCourses
November 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
One of the best decisions I ever made in my professional genealogist career - studying with Pharos. And now I’m an actual Pharos Tutor myself!
#LivingTheDream 🕵🏼♀️🌳📚
#LivingTheDream 🕵🏼♀️🌳📚