Geoff's Genealogy Blog
Tuesday January 15th, 2008 | Geoff
Last Sunday Helen and I put a series of updates on to the Geoffs Genealogywebsite, as the latest stage of our ongoing updating process. Over the past few weeks I have been through all the pages of text on the site and amended them so that they are up to…
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Sunday December 30th, 2007 | Geoff
Another Christmas has come and gone. All that planning and it’s over in a trice! I hope you had a good time, and will enjoy a happy new year. 2007 has been a good year for Geoffs Genealogy. Lots of new contacts made and new information discovered. My sincere thanks…
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Wednesday December 12th, 2007 | Geoff
Blog time again. Christmas is now less than a couple of weeks away, and I think I’m more or less up to speed with that. The main mailing of cards have been sent, and the pressies have been bought. In the next few days the Christmas Tree will be set…
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Wednesday November 28th, 2007 | Geoff
The pace of research doesn’t show any sign of slowing. In the past couple of weeks I’ve had the good fortune to receive a lot of information to add to our ever-expanding archive. I’ll briefly describe it now. Firstly, from a Bankes descendant in Australia I received some information on…
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Wednesday November 14th, 2007 | Geoff
It’s that time of year again. Here in the UK the nights have well and truly drawn in; the weather is colder the clocks have been turned back an hour and the garden has been tidied up. Christmas looms on the horizon and the shops are getting busier. I think…
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Monday October 29th, 2007 | Geoff
Yes, I know I’m late with this post. I’m sorry to have disappointed my avid readers over the past few weeks, but I simply have not found time to post until now. How hectic life is for a treer! What have I been doing since I last posted to this…
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Monday October 8th, 2007 | Geoff
Time for another post. I’m glad to say that my treeing activities are as busy as ever – busier maybe! The problem is how to keep up with it all! In the past couple of weeks I’ve done some more work on the Culshaw material that I mentioned in my…
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Sunday September 23rd, 2007 | Geoff
Hello again It’s been about ten days since my last post. In that time I have been working mainly on my Culshaw line – the first time I’ve done so for quite a time. Last January I received a really great family tree from a Culshaw researcher. It adds a…
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Tuesday September 11th, 2007 | Geoff
Last weekend we went for a short break in Carmarthenshire. We were encouraged to do this by the prospect of going to the Proms in the Park concert in Singleton park, Swansea on Saturday (8th September), but we also took the opportunity to visit my cousin – Pat, and her…
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Wednesday August 29th, 2007 | Geoff
I’ve spent quite a bit of time this week looking at the Blagg family of Cheadle, Staffordshire. Although they were (are) not Bankes descendants in the strict sense, one of their number married Arthur Ackland Hunt in 1879, and therefore the family feature on the pedigree. I had carried out…