Genealogy and other jottings

Genealogy or perhaps more Family History. Not just straight forward (or backward) family lines, but brothers and sisters, the neighbourhoods that they lived in and some information about what was happening at the time.

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Come straight home

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I am sure that I was not a particularly stupid child but I did not seem to be able to understand the stricture "come straight home from...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Rambling

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  Rambling is one of those words which have a number of meanings.  When we were young it mostly meant a weekend activity with a group of fri...

What A Life!

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I started researching our family history perhaps 40 years ago and started writing them up some 20 years ago. My first books I printed myself...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

WW1 Prisoners of War made to work

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Saw a film on TV this week called Land of Mines.  Danish made and tells the story of a group of young German POWs after the end of WW2 bein...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Tell it to the Marines

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My Mums uncle, Edward Eder joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry at the age of 19 in 1881. Served for twelve years in Gibraltar, Malta  an...
Friday, March 5, 2021

The qwerty keyboard and me.

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 I have had an association with the qwerty keyboard for something like 72 years and sadly it appears to be coming to an end.  I am still a r...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Its Census year again.

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 The next UK census will be held in March 2021 continueing a process which has taken place almost every ten years in a constantly changing f...
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