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The Lost Children
While writing Black Sheffield, a social history of George and Ann Brown's Sheffield home, I wrote about the high child mortality rate in the nineteenth century...
Boring But True
George Brown’s Own Story
I am thinking just now of a city on the border of Yorkshire and Derbyshire in good old England, a city world...
Going Around the Brickwall
In a previous post, I discovered that one of the witnesses to the marriage of my brick wall ancestors George Brown and Ann Healey...
Charles Healey Will
For thirty years, I’ve been stuck behind a very high and seemingly insurmountable brick wall in the fifth generation of my family tree and I’m on a...
Search for New Evidence 2
In my last two posts, I began to search for new evidence based on the gaps in my existing research and in this post,...
Search for New Evidence 1
The following post encroaches just a little on my plan to explore the friends, acquaintances and neighbours of George and Ann Brown but since...
Robert Unwin Will
In my last post, I shared the newly found marriage certificate of my great grandaunt Caroline Brown and Joseph Unwin. After the death of...
Brown Family Certificates Received!
With the magic of scheduled posts, I've received the birth, marriage and death certificates that I wrote about ordering in yesterday's post.
Birth of Ann Brown:...
Search for New Evidence
In this post, I will begin to search for new evidence based on the gaps in my existing research.
Searching for New Evidence
The most obvious place...
Evaluate Evidence 6
In this post I continue to review all of the existing evidence and see if there are any more clues that I missed the first...
Evaluate Evidence 5
In this post I continue to review all of the existing evidence and see if there are any more clues that I missed the first...
Evaluate Evidence 4
In this post I continue to review all of the existing evidence and see if there are any more clues that I missed the first...
Evaluate Evidence 3
In this post I continue to review all of the existing evidence and see if there are any more clues that I missed the first...
Evaluate Evidence 2
In this post I continue to review all of the existing evidence and see if there are any more clues that I missed the first...
Evaluate Evidence 1
In this post I begin to review all of the existing evidence and see if there are any more clues that I missed the...
Timeline
In my first post, I defined the problem. In this post I will go through my database and construct a simple timeline for the...
Define the Problem
My brick wall centres on the family of George and Ann Brown of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. While I know quite a bit about this...
Ancestral Calendar Highlights Week of July 21
On my ancestral calendar for the week of July 21st to July 27th are the following events:
July 21, 1915 : Marriage of John Bulmer...
Voice Recorder
When tablets first came on the market, I WANTED one. For the life of me, I could not think of what I would do...
Jiffy Rolls | Gramma Brown’s recipe
Unexpected things from unexpected places. I got the following recipe from one of my mother's friend's daughters today. It apparently was Grandma Brown's recipe....