Category: family history
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2014 version of Family Tree Maker out soon
NOTE: for current position on Family Tree Maker see our main FTM info page. After a year off, Ancestry is releasing a new version of its Family Tree Maker software, labelled 2014. This year’s UK release has seen the usual pattern, following the American version a month or two later with no firm date announced by Ancestry until late in the day. Our plot of developments has got rather long so has moved further down the page. As at 25th October 2013: the Upgrade » »
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How to Brake the records
Here is a good illustration of how being open to inquiries on family history can pay dividends. A comment on The Tonypandy that Mum knew article gave some information on a family in that town, living just round the corner from our crew in the early 1900s. A long shot, but could Cutlock and Co come up with any pointers? No harm in seeing if the focus of attention (Florence M Reed) was easy to find in the 1911 census and yes a match came up » »
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More of a muddle than a match
Holley and Watkins wedding snaps
Holley and Watkins wedding snaps A ‘new’ Welsh second cousin getting in touch through this website was a welcome prompt to go back to the pile of photos scanned during last year’s visit to Knighton and cousin Islwyn {1}. Some have got directly attached to individuals on the family tree on Ancestry, via Family Tree Maker. Others continue to need cracking of puzzles such as the date of the picture and the people featured. This piece is a start on a puzzle or two. The article » »
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There’s no news like old Welsh news
The National Library of Wales has released the beta (not quite finished) version of its Welsh Newspapers Online resource. It is already a brilliant addition to the bookmarks. I found that it was ‘live’ last night, and quickly mentioned the site on the Glamorgan FHS Facebook page. I think a few of the others signed up to that have spent quite some time since enjoying both browsing by newspaper/place and searching for their own family names. One quote “It is great just searching for the parish » »
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Hanging by a thread
Discovering the Smith family
Discovering the Smith family Discovering more about the Smith part of the family tree has proved remarkably easy, after having put off looking for ages due to the very common surname. See Entirely to the Water from Birth for first stages. Now it was time to find great great grandmother Harriet Smith’s siblings and their immediate offspring. The practice of using the mother’s (or grandmother’s) surname as a middle name was very helpful – Bacchus for two of the girls, Harper (the grandmother’s name) for one » »
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The Facebook delusion
As mentioned in the last Cutlock & Co article A bunch of artists, I have recently added Facebook to the tool set used in finding relatives. Clearly this is mainly useful for living cousins etc. but the odd ancestral photo and possibly historic info can crop up too. Facebook is however a weird beast where the etiquette can be far from clear. It is not an ideal medium for making new family contacts. Illusions of Privacy The first problem I have is the feeling of » »