Family history surprise!
On this day in 1872, Alice Maud Thurnham was born. She and her sister Jane “Jennie” Thurnham moved to Bridgwater in 1918.
I came across them while searching for other information, completely by chance.
My grandmother was a Thurnham and my mum has always said that Thurnham is such an unusual last name that we are related to all of them.
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Ok an attempt to start posting some notes here about my #FamilyHIstory
I went on a side quest about great-uncle Stratton and ended up reading Milton
Next set of family photos are at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/11/early-1900s-call-album-page-49.html
Two photos are pre-1907 - they include my great great grandparents Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice
Join me in conversation with author Damian Shiels on his latest book Green & Blue: Irish Americans in the Union Military 1861-1865 on Wednesday, November 5th at 2:00 PM EST.
Register at: https://my.americanancestors.org/2988/3087
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory Have you used Family Search's full-text search of unindexed documents? I found my hubby's grandma in there, with hard-to-find divorce documents from 1901 in Ohio. Definitely try it! https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/full-text/
The New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) website contains a vast collection of various legal documents such as case law, Acts of Parliament, legal journals, Royal Commissions and, most importantly for any genealogist wanting to research their family in Aotearoa, the New Zealand Gazettes from 1845-1999. The Gazettes contain a wealth of information relating to individuals in all sorts of 'official' capacities.
To search just the Gazettes, use this syntax with your favourite search engine: 'search_term' site:nzlii.org/nz/other/nz_gazette
I've put on the first episode of The Patty Duke Show.
For those who don't know, it is about the life of two cousins... *identical* cousins.
You can swallow that story. Or, like me, you can wonder what kind of family history made it so that two identical twins were separated at birth.
I am home taking care of family members with COVID and I am bored AF. And I was thinking this might be a good time to work on the thing (book?) I am writing about my Dad's life but I am having so much trouble with motivation for the writing part (as opposed to the researching and thinking about it part). And I was wondering about using this account as a way to sort of micr-blog my writing. I feel so much more motivation when I've got an audience, it doesn't matter how small the audience. Has anyone tried this as a tool for writing motivation and want to tell me how it went/ is going?
Blog post from John Hankins to his wife Susan written at Trenton in December 1835. Apparently he was traveling during miserably cold weather in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
https://hankinsnewyork.blogspot.com/2025/10/1835-december-letter-from-john-hankins.html
Listening to a talk by Sarah Dixwell Brown on her 7th great grandfather who signed Charles I's death warrant
A new post on The Uncommonwealth, the Library of Virginia’s blog, tells the story of an 1878 divorce case instigated by a German husband twenty-nine years after he immigrated to the United States, leaving his wife and two sons behind.
As always, there's his story, her story, and some other facts.
#FamilyHistory #Divorce #Immigration #Emigration #Virginia #Germany
@genealogy
@histodons
https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2025/10/22/a-bill-of-divorcement/
We went to the Antiquarian book event at St. Paul today. Found myself a larger version of the Leavitt "History of Leeds-Grenville" The hard copy reproduction I did have was way too small to properly read esp. the maps and photos. The original was still larger but this is much better! Bonus, none of the reproduced notes someone had made on the original before reproduction!
N.B. Province of Ontario has it online https://aims.archives.gov.on.ca/SCRIPTS/MWIMAIN.DLL/IdHQaFMHNT2N8/2/23/15376?RECORD&UNION=Y
This Week: Jesse Graham’s household appeared in the Alabama census (1850), Dessie Coker married William Clayton in Arkansas (1918), and Emogene Davis died in Arkansas (2005). Happy Halloween!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #FamilyResearch
National Archives of Ireland prepares the 1926 census for release https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/10/national-archives-of-ireland-prepares.html #Ireland #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Archives #History
@genchat @bethroots #GenChat I sometimes say "More research is needed" to indicate this #FamilyHistory is a work in progress
@bethroots @genchat #GenChat Agreed--blogging about #FamilyHistory is a great way to tell stories when you want and how you want. I don't usually include links to sources because my public family trees have sources attached. What about you?
Whether it's small blurbs, a #FamilyHistory novel or something in between, what do you write about? Do you struggle with finding time? What platform do you use? Any good tips? Let's #genchat !
My mum - standing in floral dress. Her family were very poor; her stepdad a bully. I love the little tea service and the cat. a happy memory …1930 #Caturday #FamilyHistory
This Saturday (25 Oct), my next Scottish GENES Webinar will be "Gaelic Scotland for Family Historians". The talk is at 7pm (UK time), will be an hour long, plus Q&A time at the end.
The cost to attend is UK £10 - to register, please visit
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ynCiTOHbSuyvkwhCkEScdQ#/registration (A recording will be available for a week after if you can't attend the event live, and there'll be a detailed handout made available after).
I hope you can join me! #genealogy #FamilyHistory
Join us in 2 weeks #WikiTreeSymposium2025! 
Thomas MacEntee kicks off our day at 8:00 AM ET with "Genealogy Meets the Internet Archive and AI"
Register Today! https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1945098
