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Tracing Suffolk wills for Suffolk folk

Posted on 13 May, 2020 by Helen Barrell

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...

Suffolk/Uncategorized

Suffolk parish register transcriptions at Findmypast

Posted on 14 January, 2019 by Helen Barrell

You may or may not be aware that there’s a lot of Suffolk parish register transcriptions available at commercial genealogy site Findmypast. They have a gr...

Essex/Suffolk

Free Findmypast weekend Friday 18th to Monday 21st September

Posted on 16 September, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Hurrah for free stuff! If you’ve ever been curious as to what you might discover about your ancestors on Findmypast, then now’s your chance, with th...

Essex/Suffolk

Video: You say Austin, I say Alston – Essex and Suffolk accents

Posted on 8 March, 2015 by Helen Barrell

An interesting note from 1745 in West Bergholt‘s parish register shows us that the vicar got muddled up with some of his parishioners’ surnames. Und...

Suffolk

Lawshall & The Gunpowder Plot

Posted on 5 November, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Everyone knows about Guy Fawkes, the Catholic Yorkshire man [1]Some might claim, Somerset man, but that is Robert Parsons, who came from outside Bridgwater, all...

Suffolk

Minors, cold feet and bigamists – the secrets of East Bergholt’s banns register

Posted on 23 August, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Banns registers aren’t usually considered that important for family history research – after all, we only need to look at marriage registers, becaus...

History/Sources/Suffolk

Lawshall: of private baptisms and misgotten infants

Posted on 12 August, 2014 by Helen Barrell

Hogarth’s depiction of Tristram Shandy’s home baptism. The other week, I started to transcribe the parish registers for Lawshall in Suffolk, startin...

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