Family Tree Frog

Welcome to Day 10 of the  #AtoZChallenge.  Don't know what the AtoZChallenge is? Find out more here. My theme is about Family History Societies.  What they are, How they work, Who is in them, Why they exist. And which ones begin with J ! Please feel free to add any others you know of in the comments below.   Societies beginning with J Australian Australasian Jewish Genealogical Society Inc    FFHS Membership Page Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Family Search Wiki Jewish societies Jamaica societies        Journals Perhaps your Society is too small for a journal but even a newsletter is an important way of communicating with your members and also giving them a voice.  QFHS' journal invites contributions.  The deadlines are 15 March, 15 June,  15 September and 15 December.  You can read more about the guidelines for submissions here.   We digitized our journal a few years ago and encourage all members...

My great-grandmother, Eleanor Eliza Cook, was born  141 years ago tomorrow on 21 September 1874. I have written about her before but it bears repeating.   I have found some new information this evening which I need to record as well. Eleanor's birth certificate shows that her father James was a Gunner on the ship the Monarch and that her mother was Caroline (nee Jefferies).  They lived at 25 Orange Street Portsea. Eleanor was the eldest of many children.  According to the 1891 Census they were living in 120 Queens Road and the children were listed as follows: Eleanor E aged 16 Emma M aged 14 Beatrice L aged 10 Mabel aged 9 James T.R aged 8 Walter D aged 7 Albert H. aged 3 Frederick W. 2 Winifred I. 1 Caroline, Eleanor's mother was 39 years old at the time of the Census. According to the 1901 Census there were two more children: Grace L aged 9 and John F aged 7 A big family indeed. At the age of 17 Eleanor married Edwin Conner o...