Family Historian
When researching my family tree, I came across Jack Kirby (my 5x great uncle). Jack was born in 1761 in Blean, Kent, and in 1789 having been sentenced to transportation to Australia for seven years, wrote a pamphlet in which he confessed to all his crimes. This pamphlet provides an intriguing insight into life in the late…
On Tuesday 5 November I will be taking part in Transcription Tuesday. This is Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s annual volunteer event. They explain it here “Transcription is the act of typing up handwritten historic records and turning them into searchable databases. The Internet has made it possible for more people than ever…
I have written a number of blogs in my professional life, but have now decided the time has come to start writing about some of the interesting facts and amazing stories I have discovered in my work as a family historian.
