Who When Where

I would like to upload a couple of old photos but I can't figure out how - can anyone help?

The historian Max Hastings has evidently had the same trouble - he has published a paragraph on the TNA shambles in today's Times Many people are suffering professional misery as a consequence of the virus, not least historians denied access to research collections. We can scarcely quarrel with the ...

Having lived in Dundee in the 1990s, let me just add that tenements are not necessarily slums - the word refers to the fact that they were rented accommodation; addresses might refer to the street and building number and then 'second floor, right/left' depending on which was their door on to the rel...

Thanks, Guy - I have now consulted the one-name group who agreed that it was worth a shot. So I wrote to about ten men whose addresses were given in FMP's list of electoral roll and company directors: got an immediate response from one man, who had passed my letter on to his cousin. This cousin turn...

My annual subscription to Findmypast was due to auto-renew recently - the World Subscription, which includes access to newspapers. It was a nice surprise to receive a reminder that offered me a 15% reduction 'as a thank you for your loyalty'. Of course, I was also reminded to check whether my credit...

Some years ago I was contacted by a person who ran a one-name study group (let's call them Smith), with the offer of a discount on a Y-DNA test. This was legitimate, because my name was published, as a member of a local history society, with an interest in a similar surname. My father has always mai...

Thanks, Vallm09! It seems the Fountain of Youth was to be found in Providence RI. Gertrude must have been 35+ when she went out to France, yet in a newspaper article she was described as one of 'the girls'. I found a passenger list of her return in 1919, aged 36, so she had begun to adjust her age e...

Thank you - avaline and Templ4r - seems as if she was a very independent single lady and had to earn her own living.

I will take a closer look on Ancestry next time they have a free offer for international records.

Aha! Yes parents Adam and Harriette ... but the birth registration is from 19 Sept 1879.
She was a bridesmaid for her sister in 1900 and the report did not suggest that she was a child!

This lady was a volunteer nurse in the Canadian convalescent home in Dieppe and (I believe) made a big impression on my grandfather, who spent some time there. I have found her birth details - Sept 1879 in Ontario - and I have newspaper extracts describing her activities in Canada before WW1. She qu...