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A thought that has occurred to me, regarding this month’s #OnePlaceStudy blogging prompt #OnePlaceGifts, is that our studies themselves, when we share the information we gather, transcribe and synthesise, are gifts to the wider #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory communities. 🎁 #OnePlaceWednesday
Our blogging & social media prompt this month is #OnePlaceGifts! Tell us about gifts given or received in your #OnePlaceStudy, at Christmas or other occasions. Or about gifts connected with your Place that you have given/received. Or maybe people in your Place with special gifts! #OnePlaceWednesday
December 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Last year, Charlotte Love wrote about A Christmas Wedding, that of Frank George Snelgrove and Amelia Kate Alford in 1888, in her #OnePlaceStudy of The Rank, North Bradley, Wiltshire. #OnePlaceWednesday
A Christmas Wedding
Something festive for the end of the year! Amelia Kate Alford (known as Kate) was born in 1869, the youngest of eight children. The Alford family were a long-standing fixture on The Rank; John Alfo…
theranknorthbradley.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
For #OnePlaceWednesday I’ve been trying to catalogue a donation to the heritage centre. It’s a diverse set of records from one family ranging from a rent book beginning in 1862 to memories of an Arctic whaling trip in the 1950s. #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney #OnePlaceStudy
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
#OnePlaceWednesday showcase: Le Lorrain, Martinique
Explore the lives & stories of residents in this community through collaborative genealogy research!
📍https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Space:Le_Lorrain,_Martinique_One_Place_Study
#OnePlaceStudy #CollaborativeGenealogy
December 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
NEW BLOG
Barbara Annie Dixon
5 St. John's Square, Wakefield

The latest blog for the St. John's Square #OnePlaceStudy is about Barbara Annie Dixon who worked at Bletchley Park during World War 2. /1

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December 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Our visits to Places of Christmas Past, via #OnePlaceStudy blog archives, continue with The Lost Hamlets of Rowley Regis OPS. Glenys Sykes' Yuletide post in 2023 pulled together information from a variety of published sources, about celebrations in times gone by. #OnePlaceWednesday
A Christmas Post- a little holiday reading with a Yuletide flavour!
Sadly, I have no direct sources from people who lived in the Lost Hamlets for this, but I have pulled together a little from published sources, including Rowley Village and some other places which …
rowleyregislosthamlets.uk
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As well as publishing the December issue of Destinations today, our website has been updated with the first 6 of our #OnePlaceStudy blogging, vlogging and social media prompts for 2026. These prompts are for anyone seeking inspiration for their OPS-related blog and social media posts—and videos too!
December 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This afternoon I have spent 5 hours writing up my latest blog for an individual who lived in St. John's Square, Wakefield for my #OnePlaceStudy
Publication will hopefully be sometime this week coming.
December 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It does sound like it. Right now I'm working on a #oneplacestudy of the Mother of Good Counsel convent in Chicago, Illinois. It's Felician and in the early days, mostly Galician, Prussian, and first-generation Wisconsin women. Nice to meet you!
December 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This week on the #OnePlaceStudy blog we continue Goadby's history of Loughborough, discovering more about the Beaumont family who were at one time lords of the manor of Loughborough lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2025/12/goad...
Goadby's History of Loughborough Chapter 5 Pt 1
In this continuation of edwin Goadby's History of Loughborough we learn about the Beaumont family who were lords of the manor of Loughborough
lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Follow in Mark's footsteps 🚶🏻

A thread that will appeal to #OnePlaceStudy and #LocalHistory folk...
Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This account shares research from an ongoing #OnePlaceStudy of #Rillington #Scampston, exploring how national change shaped ordinary lives in the mid C19. Through records, land & family history, it traces continuity, disruption, & resilience at a local level. History often hides in plain sight.
December 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
So according to my #Ancestry Year in Review for 2025 (for my main #OnePlaceStudy tree / forest):

👀 I viewed 6,045 records
➕ I added 511 people (total now 7,909)
🔎 Clues from my tree helped 4,170 other people
🧰 I fixed 75 tree errors
👌🏻 My tree rating is Elite (score: 10)

#GenHour
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A #OnePlaceStudy with a difference on #OnePlaceWednesday! And for those with an interest in the archaeology of their Places, we may have just the blogging prompt for you in 2026...
As part of their experience with us the boys from #Buxton Community School learned how archaeologists use #GPS to locate features in the landscape including site coordinates. Here they are with Prof Bob Johnston of University of Sheffield and Richard, one of our volunteers. #OnePlaceStudies #OSL
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Today I’m finishing the transcription of Henry Steven’s will (1852) which is long and tedious & contains three codicils. With provisions for replacing trustees who go “beyond the seas”. Also what to do if son goes bankrupt who was excluded from a bequest of property. #Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Did Friendly Societies operate in your English #OnePlaceStudy? Thanks to Joe for this link to a useful introduction to these societies. #OnePlaceWednesday
December 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I’m participating in the @fachrs.bsky.social 2026 mini project on nurses. I’ve made a list of nurses from my #OnePlaceStudy & today I started researching my grandmother’s monthly nurse Elizabeth Brown. What a rollercoaster! 😳
#OnePlaceWednesday
December 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
#GenHour Nope, it looks like you only get one. I just switched to my #OnePlaceStudy tree and went to the 'milestones' URL and got the same batch of numbers as before.
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
From Facebook:

#Keighley Local Studies Library is hosting another talk by local historian Jude Rhodes tomorrow (Wed 10 December) at 10.30am. This time Jude will be using Haworth Main Street as an example for starting a #OnePlaceStudy.

No need to book, tickets cost £2 per person on the door.
December 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
😍 OK, who’s up for creating a Tunnel Book for their #OnePlaceStudy?!?

#OnePlaceWednesday
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Looking for Christmas-time articles in old newspapers that might relate to my #OnePlaceStudy in Shropshire and spotted a 1913 column entitled “In Lighter Vein.” On the subject of what food to serve: “One can always fall back on pheasant, a feat which if well performed will much amuse your guests.”
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This week's post on the Woodlark passengers, the feisty Jane Palmer, publican of the Grovetown Hotel in the 1880s. #OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudy
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Jane Adams [Palmer] (1846 - 1913) Profile
Jane Palmer was not a woman to be trifled with. Though she could neither read nor write, she navigated contracts, business dealings, and legal disputes with a confidence that often defeated men who at...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Our blogging & social media prompt this month is #OnePlaceGifts! Tell us about gifts given or received in your #OnePlaceStudy, at Christmas or other occasions. Or about gifts connected with your Place that you have given/received. Or maybe people in your Place with special gifts! #OnePlaceWednesday
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Late afternoon sunlight on the top of St. John the Baptist church, St. John's Square, Wakefield today.
#OnePlaceStudy
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM