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Wendy Percival
Jul 31, 20202 min read
Five Minute Memories
I’ve reinstated my Five Minute Memories daily habit. I have a list of grandparents and great aunts on my iPad and each day I jot down...
Wendy Percival
Jul 24, 20202 min read
Toy Story, #familyhistory style
I was amused to find reference to a long-told family story about me and my friend Rupert...
Wendy Percival
Jul 17, 20202 min read
Politics on a postcard
Sorting through my gran’s postcard collection at the weekend, I came across this one, dated 27th September 1918. Although it shows an...
Wendy Percival
Jun 26, 20202 min read
Placing your ancestors
One of the many items on my Family History Projects To Do list, is a One-Place Study, inspired by reading Janet Few’s book, Putting Your...
Wendy Percival
Apr 10, 20202 min read
The sanctuary of gardens
During this lock-down period, those of us lucky enough to have a garden are extremely fortunate. Perhaps some have realised the value of...
Wendy Percival
Mar 27, 20202 min read
Friends like Family
...set me thinking about the friends in our ancestors' lives of whom we may largely unaware...
Wendy Percival
Feb 14, 20202 min read
Mystery wedding and jaunty hats
Happy Valentine's Day! A great excuse for browsing the family photograph albums for wedding photos. The style of weddings have changed...
Wendy Percival
Jan 31, 20202 min read
Travels into the attic
With the UK leaving the EU today, it was rather a coincidence to discover a bundle of my dad’s old British blue passports this week while...
Wendy Percival
Dec 13, 20192 min read
It's that time of year again. Oh no it isn't, oh yes it is!
I have a pantomime dame amongst my ancestors! My maternal grandfather Herbert Colley (I never met him, as he died when my mum was only...
Wendy Percival
Nov 29, 20192 min read
#FamilyHistory does transport
It was a transport theme on this week's #ancestryhour. Followers posted pictures of their ancestors beside an eclectic selection of...
Wendy Percival
Nov 22, 20192 min read
Another #familyhistory #7UP
I came across this lovely photograph of my gran, Edith Alice Diggory, at about 14 years of age, (possibly taken on the occasion of her...
Wendy Percival
Nov 15, 20191 min read
An exciting find!
I signed off last week's blog post (Mystery of George's WWI wound) lamenting the fact that I had no photograph of my great uncle, George...
Wendy Percival
Nov 8, 20192 min read
Mystery of George's #WW1 wound
A photograph of my great-uncle Tom Diggory, my gran's older brother, always stood proudly on my gran's mantelpiece. Tom had been wounded...
Wendy Percival
Nov 1, 20192 min read
Home Sweet Home
With the clocks going back an hour here in the UK and the winter ahead of us, it's that time when I think of evenings in front of a...
Wendy Percival
Oct 25, 20193 min read
Sad deaths and a new life
In the process of finding out more about my great-aunt and great-uncles's brief stay in the workhouse in 1886 (see posts, A Brush With...
Wendy Percival
Oct 11, 20192 min read
A brush with the workhouse
I discovered last week that two of my great-uncles, Allen and Ernest, and their sister Maud, spent a brief time in the workhouse in 1886....
Wendy Percival
Sep 28, 20192 min read
Off for a jolly!
There was a report in the media this week about the aim to get people in towns and cities to visit the coast and countryside, both to...
Wendy Percival
Sep 20, 20192 min read
My #familyhistory autumn pledge!
Last week my copy of the Family History Record Book devised by professional genealogist, Sheridan Parsons, arrived and I spent the...
Wendy Percival
Sep 13, 20192 min read
Forgotten #WWI heroes
Last week we went to see the stage production of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse at The New Theatre, Oxford. The story of War Horse tells of...
Wendy Percival
Aug 30, 20192 min read
A Cornish conundrum
Last Sunday was my parents' wedding anniversary. Sadly, neither are alive to celebrate what would have been 64 years as husband and wife....