The theme for this week’s #52ancestors challenge is “Favourite photo”. This is one of my favourites. It shows my great great grandparents and their two youngest daughters. The date is 1875 at the very latest and the photo was taken in Orkney, Scotland. Why is it a favourite? Partly because it is the only photo | more…
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A new fourth cousin…
A very overdue update on my last post where I talked about a big discovery thanks to Ancestry’s ‘shaky leaves’ hints. Well I checked out the records cited, the research seemed correct and I made contact with the owner of the tree on Ancestry. He is my fourth cousin, a descendant of Jean, sister of | more…