Geoff's Genealogy Blog
Monday August 20th, 2007 | Geoff
I’m back! At last I am able to resume posting to this blog! If you have missed me over past four weeks, during which my internet services were not working, I’m sorry to have kept you waiting. I won’t even try to explain why I was not able to receive…
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Monday July 30th, 2007 | Geoff
Unfortunately, due to a technical problem, there will be no blog updates for the next few days. But all being well the blog will be back soon! Watch this space…
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Thursday July 19th, 2007 | Geoff
Well, we were lucky! The open air performance of Much Ado about Nothing that we went to see last week passed off without there being a single drop of rain. I think we were so very fortunate. The next night it poured down! The show was superb. Very well acted…
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Thursday July 12th, 2007 | Geoff
First the bad news. We have had to disable the email links on the Geoffs Genealogy website, so unfortunately if you send me a message via one of those links it will not reach me. The reason for this is that last Sunday some immensely clever person managed to send…
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Tuesday July 3rd, 2007 | Geoff
This has been a fairly quiet week on the treeing front. My only excursion was to the LDS Family History Center at Telford last Thursday, where I continued my progress working on the baptisms registers of High Wycombe. I took the precaution of re-searching the entries dated from 1820 onwards,…
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Tuesday June 26th, 2007 | Geoff
The past week has provided much of interest. Last Tuesday I was at a monthly meeting of the Shropshire Family History Society at the shirehall, Shrewsbury. While we were hearing a talk about the history of Shrewsbury Town Football Club and their now defunct ground – the Gay Meadow –…
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Friday June 15th, 2007 | Geoff
The fact that this is my first posting since 5 June is indicitave of the fact that I have been quite busy these past ten days. During this period I have made progress on several lines of research. Firstly, on 7 June I went to the LDS Family History Center…
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Tuesday June 5th, 2007 | Geoff
As the three microfilms that I had ordered from the LDS all arrived together last week I thought I’d better get stuck into looking at them, so last Tuesday I went to my local Mormons’ Family History Center. I decided to start with the film that contains late c18 to…
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Monday May 28th, 2007 | Geoff
Last Thursday (24 May) I went on a Shropshire Family History Society coach trip to The National Archives, Kew. I always look forward to the society’s coach trips as they present me with a valuable opportunity to enrich my family history research by dipping into the vast treasure of sources…
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Monday May 21st, 2007 | Geoff
On Tuesday last, 14 May, I attended a monthly meeting of the Shropshire Family History Society at Shrewsbury, as I usually do on the third Tuesday of the month. The speaker gave a most interesting talk about Rev Robert Foulkes, a Shropshire parish priest who was executed for murder at…