Who When Where

A number of one branch of my Gladden ancestors appear to have emigrated from Norfolk to Ontario, Canada between 1841 and 1847. I don't believe that there are any immigration records available for that period - but can anyone prove me wrong? William Gladden, born 1790 Hevingham Norfolk, married 1817 ...

This has just popped in from TNA

Make the most of this offer and crack on with some of your research.

The offer begins Friday 22 April at 10:00 BST, and ends Monday 25 April at 23:59 BST.

Order and pay the usual way except it’s £1.75 an image rather than £3.50/3.15

It was not intended as help for searching the census, merely that there may be some people who would take up that sort of an offer. Who knows how long it might be before the census is included in subscriptions.

On Saturday I attended a zoom meeting where a presentation was given by Mary McKee of FMP on the work leading up to the release of the census. It was very interesting, and had some useful tips on searching to get better results. This may have been mentioned already, but apparently TNA/the government...

I only got started in family history by accident! After my father died in 2006, I was sorting through some paperwork and found the executor’s files of my maternal great-aunt Flo who had died in 1987. Most of her will was fairly straightforward, but I was intrigued that, after various small bequests,...

My wife applied for her father’s record in mid 2020 and we haven’t heard anything at all

I shall also wait for the time being. When the excitement has died down a bit, I shall look up all 4 sets of grandparents, but that is all.

I've used the S&N folders and those from My History. I had to store a number of oversized documents and (I think) the "My History" selection better suited that (they were pre-war school certificates and Army Papers of my father-in-law) https://www.my-history.co.uk/acatalog/Archive_Stor...

I must admit to overlooking that. I will bear it in mind in the new year - thanks

So it's now about 6 months on and I have to say I am still unimpressed. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but my closest match is a third-fourth cousin with 68cm. More disappointingly, only 8 of the matches with 40cm or more have a public linked tree, 2 have private trees, one an unlinked tree and the rest ha...