New Suffolk burials CD!
This looks good! The Suffolk Family History Society have released a new version of their Suffolk burials CD, with nearly 1,500,000 burials. It’s also avai...
Author: Helen Barrell
The Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index – what it is and how to use it
I first heard about the Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index (EWBI) in a newsletter from the Essex Society for Family History. It’s a remarkable index compiled...
Some notes on the Mannock family
Do you have Mannock ancestors in your tree? The line of Mannocks who lived at Gifford’s Hall in Stoke-by-Nayland, the descendants of George Mannock’...
Don’t diss Frinton’s church!
I’m transcribing records for Frinton at the moment. It once had a tiny population and an equally tiny church. In trying to find out more about life in a t...
The Griffin family
I decided on a whim to make use of the Buckinghamshire records on Findmypast and research my Griffin ancestors who come from that county. I wasn’t sure I&...
Pinching out sweet peas
No, this has nothing whatsoever to do with family history, other than the fact that my grandparents grew sweet peas and I wanted to grow some too. My reason for...
Tracing Suffolk wills for Suffolk folk
I’ve recorded a Facebook Live about finding wills for people who lived in Suffolk. There’s several handy links I mention, so here goes… Prerog...
Unfortunate ways to die in Elmstead
Elmstead’s earliest burials register contains the cause of death for a few of the residents, and they give an insight into how life was lived – and ...
Updates to “Goings on in Dedham”
Back in July last year, I was transcribing Dedham’s second oldest surviving parish register and found some interesting goings on among the baptisms. You c...
“An Aethiopian of Ginny”
Jean Jeggo, transcribing Gosfield’s baptism register for FreeREG, found the following entry: Thomas an Aethiopian of Ginny in Africa beeing about twelve y...