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Who were those people in the family tree?

I’ve spent many hours combing through records and newspaper articles about ancestors and long-dead relatives, and although there’s much I don’t know, I realized I have lots of thumbnail sketches of where they lived, what sort of work they did and occasionally other snippets of information which I haven’t shared. The more substantial stories – such as interfering in an election in Pontefract – have blog posts, but the smaller details are only in my head. Recently I sent my brothers two bow-tie charts, and one replied that it looked odd as he’d never heard of many of the names. Time to put a little flesh on those bones!

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Family stories: Tales of a wastrel, immigrants, personation, mottying and so much more!

In 2007 I spent some time with Ancestry and the census records for family on both sides of the pond. There were all sorts of interesting bits and pieces I was able to unearth about Sznarwakowski, Tibstra, Poulson, Jenkins, Forster, Williams, Shepherd and other parts of our family trees. Given the time limits on release of some data – such as census records, which are held for 100 years in the UK and 72 in the US – I soon ran out of available online information and moved on. Continue reading Family stories: Tales of a wastrel, immigrants, personation, mottying and so much more!

2015 remodeling project

In addition to slideshows of pictures of work in progress, I thought I’d summarize work week by week, and this seemed like a way to do it.

It’ll take me a bit to catch up with the work to date (we started March 16th by demolishing the kids’ bathroom), but after that, I’ll try and keep this updated at least weekly with how things are going.

Here’s a link to the galleries of remodeling pictures – how things looked before we started and what’s been going on in each area. Continue reading 2015 remodeling project