Since I last wrote an update my tree has jumper from 635 to 702 people! I’m not sure how that happened. I think I am still on track to have saved all the records from Ancestry for the original 286 people on my tree by the year anniversary of me starting this little project. Then I will update my tree with the additional 400 people I have since added. I am going to concentrate on the direct lines of ancestors so I’m hoping that it won’t take me another year to complete in 2026!
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I’ve had a few hours to yourself over the weekend and managed to do some more research about the Duncan family. A few years ago a researcher got in touch about George Duncan as his father, James David Duncan, was a famous artist in Montreal, Canada. I was able to add a few more details to my tree, taking the number of people from 623 to 635.
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I’m not sure how we have jumped to a week 39 update so quickly since the last blog post. Unfortunately/fortunately I am still on 623 people in my Ancestry chart which is good. However it means I’ve had no time to do any family history research, mainly due to a much more recent family wedding which we attended last weekend.
I’m hoping that the Christmas holidays will give me some much needed quiet time to do some family history research.
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I’ve been so busy over the weekend. My two teens were away which meant I had time to myself! This happened to coincide with free access to the newspaper collection on Find My Past!
I’ve added a few interesting characters to my family tree and it has jumped from 584 to 623 people in the last two weeks! Eeek. Some of the people led quite extraordinary lives and/or had unusual names, which meant there was a lot of information to be found about them. I was also able to search the free newspapers to find out even more. Newspapers certainly add a new dimension to endless census and BMD data.
Free access to the newspapers ends today which is good for me, as I really need to concentrate of downloading my data from Ancestry. I do feel I could manage it by the end of the year, and then I will have to go back and make sure I have an up to date list as I started out there were only 321 people in my tree – which means I’ve added over 300 people in 8 months!
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Week 34 update: I’ve jumped to a whopping 584 people on my Ancestry tree which is a huge jump for me. It’s been a while since I sat and wrote an update so I can’t remember where all these people came from.
The best discovery I found was being related to Benjamin Bond Hopkins who married three times and owned Painshill in Surrey at some point. Painshill Park is open to the public and is one of the best examples of the English Landscape Movement.
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I’ve joined a few Facebook groups for Irish family history as I am keen to explore my Irish roots more. I read a tip about searching Irish parish registers online so spent an hour searching the Catholic records for Macroom. Catherine Caroll was born in Macroom, Cork in about 1857 so I wanted to find a baptism record for her and find out the names of her parents. The parish registers have been microfilmed and are now available online, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to find anything yet.
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