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The Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index – what it is and how to use it

Posted on 23 November, 2020 by Helen Barrell

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...

Essex/History/Memorial inscriptions/Sources

Suckling’s Essex

Posted on 24 March, 2018 by Helen Barrell

I’ve found something rather fun on Google Books – Suckling’s Memorials etc of Essex, published in 1845. He went round many of the parish churc...

History/Sources

Guest blog: The Mystery of the Sailor in the River

Posted on 26 October, 2017 by Helen Barrell

A guest blog for Wivenhoe’s History about a sailor who drowned in the River Colne in 1850. But all was not as it seemed. (A shorter version of this text w...

Essex/Sources/Transcriptions

The Bridges family of Lawford and John Constable’s portrait

Posted on 9 September, 2017 by Helen Barrell

If you’re from north-east Essex, and perhaps if you’re from south-east Suffolk, you cannot avoid John Constable. My grandma had a print of The Haywa...

Essex/Sources/Transcriptions

Updates – Lawford

Posted on 3 August, 2017 by Helen Barrell

I’ve finished transcribing the earlier parish register (1558-1764) for Lawford in north-east Essex. It’s right by the Suffolk border, so you might f...

Sources

Did Jane Austen fake a marriage?

Posted on 21 March, 2017 by Helen Barrell

Ahhh, see, I told you that notes left in parish registers are endlessly fascinating! Not only is it possible (at least I think so) that Charlotte Brontë got the...

Documents/Sources

Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017

Posted on 13 November, 2016 by Helen Barrell

News! I’m doing a talk at Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017 at the NEC in Birmingham. In “Turn your family tree surprises into a book”, I...

Sources

Knock down family tree brick walls with the 1939 Register

Posted on 8 December, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Check out Find My Past for my guest blog about family tree brick walls I demolished with The 1939 Register. Without it, I would’ve struggled to trace Uncl...

Sources

Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2015

Posted on 18 April, 2015 by Helen Barrell

I’d never been to WDYTYA? Live before, and wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. Everyone speaks about it in excitable tones, and now that it’s...

Sources

FreeREG’s new look

Posted on 15 April, 2015 by Helen Barrell

After a great deal of work, the new interface for FreeREG is now online: FreeREG2. It sits over a database that contains 20,000,000 parish register transcriptio...

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