Find My Past is currently offering FREE access to their newspaper archives (30 May – 6 June). If you have ancestors in the UK, this is an incredible opportunity. Myself, I have been really lucky and have been able to find some amazing articles relating to my family’s history (I’ll be sharing more over the…
Favourite Find: Week # 2 (2022) I would like to share with you my most recent favourite discovery that I’ve found. I struggle with using the word favourite in this post because this photograph is representative of something so dark and sad, but also, this photo is something that I have been searching for and…
Week # 26 – Conflict (June 28-July 4) Almost exactly 89 years ago a young English student bore witness to rioting at the university she was attending in Frankfurt, Germany. She wrote into the editor of the Manchester Guardian to provide an eye-witness account of the day. Here is her letter to the editor. This…
Good Fortune I’m participating (again) in Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and this week the writing prompt is Fortune. Last year, around this same time frame, we had a similar prompt, Prosperity and for that I chose to write about how the famous explorer, Sir Henry Morton Stanley was probably the most financially fortunate of…
The Paris Library A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles I was so excited to read this book about a library in Paris in 1939. The cover art is absolutely gorgeous. Historical fiction, especially anything to do with WW2, is my go-to genre. I was especially interested to read about a library in Paris after recently…
2020 Year End Review of Finding My Ancestors Blog I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and we are now in the final week of the challenge!! I decided to start this family history blog back in December of 2018. So it has been two years already! How can that be possible?! This…
Leaving Gibraltar Another interesting story that my Grandfather, Walter Edmund APPS, spoke about in his video interview done on April 4th, 1993 was him recalling his adventurous, although frightening time leaving Gibraltar. In the interview, he was talking about his time spent serving with the First Fortress Company of Royal Engineers, in this case more…
Glider Pilot Regiment I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge this year. Week # 41 the topic is NEWEST. I think my latest discovery is relevant to the topic of newest. Recently, I tried something new, different and exciting which led me to this photo here right down here, which…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestor Challenge. The writing prompt for this week is “Should Be A Movie.” One absolutely ridiculous story came to mind, but first I have to set the scene. This story came from watching a home video of my Grandfather where he was being interviewed by his two sons…
The writing prompt for Week # 32 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors challenge is SMALL. In my mind nothing to do with our family’s history is small, because even the smallest detail can steer you into something so fantastic. Big things often have small beginnings I’ve talked quite a few times about my paternal…
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