Shake the tree and nuts fall out!

  WEEK 2 – Favourite photo This gets harder every year because once you’ve used your “ favourite photo” you can’t use it again and therefore no other photo is your “ favourite photo” .  However, I have sat and gone through some of the old photos and decided to use this one of Elizabeth Ann Tanner she was the wife of my 2 nd cousin 4x removed. The look on her face says everything! She had a very hard life. If only photos could talk, but they say a picture paints a thousand words and this certainly does.   Elizabeth was born 16 March 1847 In Greenwich, London. She was the daughter of William Tanner and Elizabeth Ruzbridge. Records have been few and far between for Elizabeth, and many people have her (photos and date of birth etc) linked to various parents. I have her mother’s name from GRO index and her fathers from her death record. However, I am not 100% sure that these are correct as I can’t find a marriage that matches, and others have her father married to 3 differen...

  WEEK 1 – I would like to meet Over the years there has been many ancestors who have had the “ I would like to meet them ” comment linked to something I have heard, read or found online about them. However, the main 2 people (I can’t pick 1 as they were a couple) that have always had this comment are Robert Lackey and his wife Mary Jane Jackson – they were my 2 nd great grandparents on my paternal line. I have managed to find so much information linked to them over the years but never been able to find a photo. Robert and Mary are my Irish ancestors. I have Robert with his family in 1851 Ireland, this lists most of his siblings and parents on a census. His parents were James Lackey and Jane Thompson, listed siblings are William, James, George, John, Alexander, Francis and Jane. I can’t locate the 1851 census with Mary on. I have their marriage certificate of 1866 in Saintfield, and a photo of the church where they were married, and it also believed that the older 2 children...

52 ancestors in 52 weeks is exactly that, you  write or share about a different ancestor each week linked to a set theme. I successfully completed this is 2021 and thought i would do it in 2022 as well, but sadly i got week 1 done only - i have no idea as to why i didnt do it. So 2022 was a fail. However i've decided to take part in 2023 - i'm 5 weeks behind BUT i have sat and got them written out so i've sort of caught up.

  Week 40 (Oct. 4-10): Preservation I have no known records of any ancestors that could be linked to “preservation”. No-one that I know of “preserved ” food or anything like that (oh how I wish to have a link to the Amish people! There would be so much to write on them.) Therefore, the best that I can come up with is once again linked to myself. I am the only person now living who has any interest in the family history and those who went before us. Therefore, my ramblings on my blog and all documents and photos that I have are my way of “ preserving ” my family history for anyone in the future to come across and hopefully continue working on. I have tried numerous times to get any of my boys interested but had no luck. The youngest has shown abit more interest than the older 2 but not much. I have boxes of items from more recent people/ancestors that I am “preserving” and keeping safe. I have army record books, medals, photos, certificates (some originals), newspaper cuttings...