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Too tired to Research; Why I'm tired ... and did you know it's Raining?
It's been a busy eight days or so and I'm frankly astonished I've held up so long. Last night my legs barely carried me up the stairs and this morning I don't want to get out of the warm, soft, bed,...
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Too poor and ill for a Post Office Account?
Since the government is determined to pay everyone their benefits into a bank account these days I expected opening one of the new current accounts at the Post Office to be plain sailing, but no,...
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Not a Moment to Myself These Days!
*space bar on my laptop is sticking, so apologies for any run together words!*Since August I have been so busy with work for the Barnsley War Memorials Project, and happily so well (relatively), that I...
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Finding a Nurse in the Absent Voters' List for Barnsley in World War One
I have just added a page to the Barnsley War Memorials Project website that is like a blog post in itself. So for all my followers on this blog here's a link.An extract from the 1918 Absent Voters'...
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Why Do I Research First World War Soldiers' Stories?
Since this time last year I have been deeply involved with the Barnsley War Memorials Project however my interest in the First World War and the experiences of the men and their families goes back a...
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Villains and Heroes - One Family on Find My Past
Record Category Headings on FMPYesterday (Boxing Day) Find My Past sent me yet another promotional email telling me that they had added more records to their website. This is all well and good, but...
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Timeline View of Lives of the First World War
Since I last wrote about Lives of the First World War (LFWW) back in May 2014 the site has improved its user interface with the introduction of the Timeline and with additional helpful hints on screen...
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Attaching External Evidence to Lives of the First World War
A couple of days ago I wrote an introduction to using the new Timeline version of Lives of the First World War (LFWW). I said I'd come back and explain how to add External Evidence. Memorials for WW1...
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WW1 Soldier's Story - The Importance of Knowing Where Your Spoon is At
In the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy it is vitally important that you always know where your towel is ... well it seems that in the First World War it was equally important that you always knew where...
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A Chemist Goes to War (and so does his sister) The Johnson's of Church...
The Barnsley War Memorials Project have just about completed our first volunteers project - to transcribe the 1918 Absent Voters' List for Barnsley and surrounding area. This was compiled following...
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A Trail of Clues leading to the Guest Family - Grocers of Market Hill, Barnsley
As you have no doubt noticed (ha!) I have been spending a lot of time researching WW1 soldiers recently - well, oddly, delving into one of 'my men' has sent me down a more traditional family history...
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The Rise & Fall of Henry Carter & Sons of No 7 Market Hill
(This article first appeared in the Spring 2015 edition of Barnsley CAMRA's magazine The BAR)No 7 Market Hill in 1900 (from YOCOCO)The pub on Market Hill, Barnsley now known as the Old No 7 and which...
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Identifying Men on Barnsley's War Memorials
The Barnsley War Memorials Project has now been underway for just over a year (from the official constitution of the group in March 2014) and we have collected hundreds of photographs and...
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In Search of Albert Pagett, a Visit to St Helen's Church, Hemsworth
On a Wednesday I usually attend the Cudworth History and Heritage Group meeting at Cudworth Library (aka Cudworth Centre of Excellence) but this morning the bright, if cold and windy, day inspired me...
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The 'Office Copy' of the 1918 Absent Voters' List for Barnsley
Last week I started to add the handwritten notes in the 'Office Copy' of the 1918 Absent Voters' List for Barnsley to the transcription of the 6127 names which has been completed by 10 volunteers...
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Following up Clues in the New Book about Elsecar's Fallen Parishioners
Last week I was given a copy of a new book, Parishioners of Elsecar who Laid Down Their Lives in the Great War, 1914-1918"by its author, Graham Noble, which takes for its starting point the 32 men...
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Barnsley's Australian WW1 Connections
Although I spend much of my time, at the moment, studying First World War soldiers sometimes I come across a story so good that I have to do a little extra research and then pass it on to you. You may...
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Barnsley's First Health Visitor - Frances Mary Malkin, later Jeffs
This last weekend the OH and I travelled down to London to attend a Great British Beer Festival meeting in Fuller's Brewery, Chiswick. As it is such a long journey we usually stay overnight in London,...
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Renewing my Disabled aka Concessionary Bus Pass (or not?)
After writing this I submitted it to 'Blogging Against Disablism Day' - it was serendipitous, I hadn't realised it was today (1 May 2015) but something nice had to happen today to balance all the bad...
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World War One Soldiers - Cousins from Worsboro' Common who joined together...
While recording and identifying World War One soldiers for the Barnsley War Memorials Project we often come across stories that may not be from our own family history, but are so interesting or plain...
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