My Garden of Memories
A guest blog from Carolyn Huston, a member of our family historians group My garden here in Leeds is the place that I spend a...
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Family History and Academic History – and beyond!
Following our workshop on collaboration - between family historians, academic historians, archivists, librarians and many others - on Saturday 14 July, one of our speakers, Mike...
Working with family historians – remembering and forgetting our ancestors
Laura King, University of Leeds What can family history tell us about how we remember? As we’ve worked with family historians over the past year,...
Ways of Remembering My Relatives
A guest blog from Amanda Reed My name’s Amanda Reed – my maiden name is Cunningham. I was born in 1964 in the Armley area of...
My Huguenot Ancestors
A guest blog from Janet Coles My maternal grandmother, Emily Maria Gaskin, was born in 1884 in London and died in York in 1956. She...
My Grandmother’s Silver Vesta Case
A guest blog from Janet Coles The silver vesta case belonged to my maternal grandmother, Emily Maria Gaskin, who was born in London in 1884 and died in York in 1956. Even sixty years later it reminds me...
The Sideboard
A Guest Blog from Maureen Jessop 'What's tha doing round there?' came the voice from the worn brown leather chair. This was a question my brothers...
My Mother's Writing Case
A Guest Blog from Marie Songhurst This writing case belonged to my mother - Ethel Mary Tee (Mayhew). I believe the writing case was a...
Remembering Edwin Glover Bingham
Photograph: Edwin Glover Bingham with the choir at St Augustine's Wrangthorn A guest blog from Maureen Kershaw Born in 1948 I don't have memories of...
Inheritance Facts?
A guest blog from Paul Cave When I was a child, my favourite thing in the world was to draw. “I don’t know where you...
A Visit to Common Farm
A guest blog from Sarah Sykes I always knew that my maternal grandfather, David Leslie Noble, was the son of a Nottinghamshire farmer, but didn’t...
Poor Harold
A guest blog from Maureen Jessop Harold Cooper was born in Leeds on 10 November 1920, the eldest child of Tom, a railway worker, and...
My Grandad's Lost Regalia
A guest blog from Eric Songhurst Who was this fine imposing looking business man? Is this where my willingness to serve on committees in various...
Investigating a Family Secret
Hunslet Feast, 1850. Leodis Photograph Archive. A guest blog from Carolyn Huston I try to be disciplined in my family tree research, but have a butterfly...
Working Collaboratively with Family Historians
Since May we have been working with a group of Leeds based family historians on the 'living with dying' project. Some of them are already experts,...
Family History Resource List
Support Services in Leeds for Family Historians Sometimes when researching our family histories we come across things about our ancestors which we might find upsetting, or...