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Hi everyone, Having now got my final project out of the way, it’s finally the summer, and aren’t we having a great one so far? Just the dissertation to go now before my MSc is completed, and until then I’ll be trying to blog more often. Hopefully I can bring you new sources, interesting findsContinueContinue reading “Summer Time!”

A quick blog this one, reporting through images my trip to Earlham Cemetery this morning. I also include some information on the cemetery and its records. If you know it already, you’ll perhaps appreciate the scale of what is otherwise known as “City Cemetery” in Norwich. The cemetery on Earlham Road is the same asContinueContinue reading “Earlham Cemetery: In search of those lost in the 1912 Norwich floods”

….visited an archive? Before I even start, I’m going to say one thing. I love archives and local studies libraries and libraries. On honeymoon, I took my brand new husband to no less than four – Boston Public Library, Mass Archives, Cambridge Public Library and Harvard (although I couldn’t get into the last one). I’mContinueContinue reading “When was the last time you…?”

First, let me apologise for my recent lack of blog updating. I hope to rectify this now my MSc work has finished for the summer – at some point I will also do a blog about the first year of the Strathclyde course I’ve been busy completing, in the hope that some readers will findContinueContinue reading “Mind your Erpinghams…!”

With the wedding being a family occasion for us and me working in archives and generally enjoying everything to do with genealogy, it was always inevitable that elements of this would creep into our recent nuptials. We might have stopped at the ‘Victorian Amethyst’ of my lovely ladies’ bridesmaid dresses – but we didn’t! While weContinueContinue reading “Our local, historical, genealogical, sci fi wedding!”

As promised, a brief update on what is, and is not, available on Ancestry in indexed form for Norfolk and Suffolk. Suffolk has gone from nothing to being very nearly indexed in the last week or so – if you search for people in the 1911 England Census who live in “Suffolk, England” and restrictContinueContinue reading “Extra 1911 on Ancestry”

You may well have spotted that Ancestry has added many new Counties to its 1911 census collection. In my area of interest, Norfolk is now noted as one of the searchable ones. You would be forgiven for thinking the area is ‘fully searchable’ having read Ancestry’s blog (without the associated comments!), but that’s not yetContinueContinue reading “A Needle in a Haystack? 1911 Census on Ancestry”

The temperature’s dropped, the lights are on, the animal stories are in the paper and Christmas Coca Cola truck is outside the Forum against a backdrop of hourly fake snow showers; it must be Christmas time!  Just for fun, here are some festive snippets to be enjoyed with a glass of mulled wine and someContinueContinue reading “Gratuitous Christmas Blog”

Waking up to a misty morning, I decided nonetheless to carry out today’s planned mission to visit all the medieval churches within the old city walls, photograph them, and map out the route,  just in case anyone else would like to carry out such a trek themselves. By ‘all the medieval churches’ what I reallyContinueContinue reading “A foggy blog: three hours, two legs and nearly 40 churches (Part A)”

Turn left down Westlegate. The church to your right, dwarved by Norwich’s best loved (this is most definitely sarcasm) tower block, is All Saints Church. The graveyard here is almost level with the top of my head!  10:41  Continue down Westlegate and cross St Stephen’s Street. Climb up Rampant Horse Street and St Stephen’s churchContinueContinue reading “A foggy blog: three hours, two legs and nearly 40 churches (Part B)”