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  • #21
    I hope you like this one.................

    One of my “Heroes” and Favourite Ancestors the fourth in my series of blogs about my 8 great-grandparents The Life and Times of John Edwin Barnes

    This is the latest and recently updated biography of my great-grandfather, John Edwin Barnes. It’s always good practise to periodically review and revisit your work and I have included here s…
    Last edited by Paulc; 17-08-19, 12:35.
    My Family History Blog Site:

    https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

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    • #22
      you have inspired me to do something on mine, but no idea where/who to start. Need some more substance with some of mine I feel.
      Carolyn
      Family Tree site

      Researching: Luggs, Freeman - Cornwall; Dayman, Hobbs, Heard - Devon; Wilson, Miles - Northants; Brett, Everett, Clark, Allum - Herts/Essex
      Also interested in Proctor, Woodruff

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      • #23
        Thanks Carolyn, glad I have inspired you in some way, just start with a favourite ancestor and go from there.
        My Family History Blog Site:

        https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

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        • #24
          I have finally started to write up the life stories of my Ancestor's before it's too late!! I have been putting it off for years, but I have finally given it a go this year. Thanks to some wonderful advice on here, I have included a bit more context and social history in my more recent stories, so I hope you can see an improvement with my more recent stories.
          I have just finished a project of writing up the life stories of my 8 x great grandparents
          their stories can be found here......


          https://chiddicksfamilytree.com/2019/08 ... in-barnes/


          My latest mammoth task is to write up the life stories of my 16 great-great grandparents, a marathon task, but if I don't start now I never will!!
          I have completed the first two!!


          This is the second of my series of blogs on the mammoth challenge of documenting the lives of my 2 x Great Grandparents, next up is Thomas Elisha Day, and what a very interesting and enterprising A…



          This is the first in a new series of blogs, tackling the life stories of my 16 Great-Great Grandparents. So strap yourself in and lets begin the journey of discovery and uncover the life story of m…




          I hope you enjoy their stories
          Last edited by Paulc; 09-12-19, 01:38. Reason: typo
          My Family History Blog Site:

          https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

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          • #25
            I will have a proper read later on, it looks great, when you have all that info you need to put it all together. I have been inspired to make a start on my own 'journal', I have several drafts of some that i will publish soon, as I can add to them as I go.



            Then I will learn how best to do the menus when i have a few pages! all just in a drop down at the top at the moment.
            Carolyn
            Family Tree site

            Researching: Luggs, Freeman - Cornwall; Dayman, Hobbs, Heard - Devon; Wilson, Miles - Northants; Brett, Everett, Clark, Allum - Herts/Essex
            Also interested in Proctor, Woodruff

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            • #26
              Originally posted by cbcarolyn View Post
              I will have a proper read later on, it looks great, when you have all that info you need to put it all together. I have been inspired to make a start on my own 'journal', I have several drafts of some that i will publish soon, as I can add to them as I go.



              Then I will learn how best to do the menus when i have a few pages! all just in a drop down at the top at the moment.
              Thanks Carolyn, I ma glad that you have started your own journal, I had put mine off for way too long! Starting is the hardest bit, once your into the swing of it, you'll be surprised at how quickly it comes together.
              My Family History Blog Site:

              https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

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              • #27
                I stumbled across this site, you all maybe have found it before, but I thought it had some great prompts

                Carolyn
                Family Tree site

                Researching: Luggs, Freeman - Cornwall; Dayman, Hobbs, Heard - Devon; Wilson, Miles - Northants; Brett, Everett, Clark, Allum - Herts/Essex
                Also interested in Proctor, Woodruff

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                • #28
                  Originally posted by cbcarolyn View Post
                  I stumbled across this site, you all maybe have found it before, but I thought it had some great prompts

                  https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/101-writing-prompts/
                  That is very handy - thank you. I've added her to my ever growing list of Twitter genealogists.
                  Caroline
                  Caroline's Family History Pages
                  Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

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                  • #29
                    Brilliant thanks cbcarolyn
                    My Family History Blog Site:

                    https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

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                    • #30
                      I've had a recent new incentive for getting stuff down in writing. s some of you will know I've got quite a few half siblings on both sides as both my birth parents had multiple marriages/relationships. It's only through my research that they have become aware of each other, recently a few have met up for the first time and a few more first meetings are planned in the near future but that's enough of me doing a Cilla.

                      As I'm the youngest (at 53) and didn't find anyone until I was into my forties there's decades of unknown lives we can share. Different towns, different experiences, different periods, my oldest half siblings were all but married by the time I was born and in the last couple of years two have died. Their memories are now lost forever. Just before Xmas I reconnected with a half sister and now we are working to trace her maternal side, lots of photos to add faces to the stories we've discovered but still there's 4 decades of my life nobody knows about. We talk for hours everyday on the phone going through our old neighbourhoods using street view and recounting stories from our childhood, places we worked and all manner of things. We've started to build an archive of old images of houses and business premises connected to the family, only yesterday we found a photograph of the house our grandmother lived in when she had our father back in the 1920's. It's not just knowing the where, we have shared the experience of the discovery. Another sister in that same group of siblings has grandchildren, our growing picture archive can now show the faces of seven unbroken generations of faces down a maternal line and five generations of houses. I just wish I had 50 years left to write up all the stories and incorporate the 300 years of newspaper articles to accompany the objects and documents I've acquired.
                      http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

                      Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
                      My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
                      My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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                      • #31
                        Thanks for sharing Glen.

                        Are you able to record the conversations so that you got them forever, rather than just relying on your memory, which as well know only too well, fades with time.

                        It’s s little bit intrusive, but recording the stories will ensure that they are not lost over time, just an idea.
                        My Family History Blog Site:

                        https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

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                        • #32
                          Just from memory. Without being overdramatic neither of us are that well. "C" is one of six and until recently the only one who had any real interest but we have managed to pull up some bits that have hooked the others in a little bit. I asked on an fb group for a picture of my old town yesterday and up popped the shop I worked in after leaving school from around that time. The path outside is where I met the girl I eventually married (she worked upstairs). That's gone down a storm as it's all context. "C" and myself are very alike in many ways and photos of us in our mid 20's show how physically alike we are, it's really strange at times as we have both looked at pictures of each other and feel it's like looking at ourselves.
                          http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

                          Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
                          My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
                          My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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                          • #33
                            It’s amazing how little bits of our past, that play a major part in our life, can come back and rekindle those memories.
                            My Family History Blog Site:

                            https://chiddicksfamilytree.com

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                            • #34
                              This thread has been copied over to The Writer's Shed.
                              Caroline
                              Caroline's Family History Pages
                              Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

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