Geoff's Genealogy Blog
Friday December 31st, 2010 | Geoff
The sharp-eyed among you will have noticed that I have spent some ttime over the past couple of weeks working on some updates to the Geoffs Genealogy website. These updates are very much overdue, and are a “work in progress”. To date they are as follows: The Bankes Biography page…
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Tuesday November 30th, 2010 | Geoff
Well, the weather here in Blighty certainly has taken on a wintery chill in the past week. As I write this we in Shropshire have a covering of snow on the ground and are having to contend with icy roads and footpaths as we wend our way to the office…
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Monday November 1st, 2010 | Geoff
I’m pleased to say that a number of people have said that they aim to be at the Reunion of John Bankes’ Descendants in June 2011,and we are hoping very much to get a good attendance. It should be a really enjoyable day for all of you who are interested…
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Monday October 4th, 2010 | Geoff
The most important piece of news this month is that we have fixed a date for the first ever reunion of descendants of John Bankes, Citizen & Haberdasher of London (abt 1652-1719). We are at the earliest planning stages at the moment, but we shall be setting up an extra…
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Tuesday August 31st, 2010 | Geoff
There I was, looking to do a bit of treeing on the August Bank Holiday Monday. When I attempted to log on to the internet there was nothing! OK, I thought, it will probably repair itself in a while, but by the evening we still had no connection, and there…
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Monday August 16th, 2010 | Geoff
Those of you who have a Facebook presence will probably be interested to know that we now have a Bankes Descendants Facebook group. You can join the group by clicking here.
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Monday August 9th, 2010 | Geoff
I’ve just returned from a week in the wonderfully beautiful Aveyron department of France. Mostly good weather, lovely food and lots of interesting places to visit. What could be better? Treeing has taken a bit of a back seat in the past few weeks, but I have one or two…
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Saturday July 17th, 2010 | Geoff
I’m rather late with this blog entry. I’ve been working on several projects at the same time, and resolved to finish them before blogging. Sometimes I have to discipline myself in this way, in order to get things done. Anyway, I’ve just completed my last task – the preparation of…
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Sunday May 30th, 2010 | Geoff
On 20 May I visited The National Archives at Kew, travelling on the coach that is so splendidly organised by Shropshire Family History Society. I have been visiting Kew for about 20 years, on and off, so you would think that I know the ropes pretty well. I like to…
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Friday May 7th, 2010 | Geoff
We are now well and truly into Spring in the UK, and I must say it is a joy to see all the bulbs flowering in the gardens and at the roadsides. Quite a bit of my time over the past month was spent preparing the June edition of the…