Family Tree Frog

  Photo by Alex Daw Barley Sugar It's been a while since I've blogged and boy do I miss it. Have you received an email from Ancestry lately suggesting you check out new traits?  DNA doesn't lie, so they say, but I beg to differ.   This will probably be an intensely boring post for those of you who don't really know me but I feel compelled to record my responses to the alleged traits for the amusement or interest of posterity and my family. 16 new traits have been identified for me.  There are 56 identified traits altogether. Let's tackle the new traits first: Competitiveness - likely to be competitive - influenced by my maternal side apparently.  Yes I agree but not with the side of the family.  If you'd asked me I would have said the paternal side.  My paternal grandmother was I believe intensely competitive - witness the articles I have written about her swimming prowess.  I'm struggling to recall any competitiveness displayed by my mother ...

  Census at Bethlehem by Pieter Brueghel II The Younger     This blog post is submitted as part of the National Family History Month blogging challenge called Genealife in Lockdown as mentioned in this blog post here.    Janet Few wrote this blog post which was the inspiration for this second blog post and a previous blog post here . Her blog post was entitled My Life in Seven Censuses.  Janet lives in the UK and they take a census every ten years.  In fact, it is likely that this might be the last census in the UK; the government considering that it can obtain the information it needs through other means.  Let's see what happens. Australia is a bit unique in family history terms in that it has destroyed most of the censuses it has taken over the years.  You can read more about the history of the Australian census here.  I found Janet's blog post fascinating on a number of levels.  It was really interesting to see what kind of dat...

Janet Few wrote this blog post recently which was the inspiration for this blog post. Her blog post was entitled My Life in Seven Censuses.   Janet lives in the UK and they take a census every ten years.  In fact, it is likely that this might be the last census in the UK; the government considering that it can obtain the information it needs through other means.  Let's see what happens. Australia is a bit unique in family history terms in that it has destroyed the censuses it has taken over the years.  You can read more about the history of the Australian census here. I found Janet's blog post fascinating on a number of levels.  It was really interesting to see what kind of data the enumerators were asked to collect e.g. what type of heating was in the house, what type of television, how many cars, level of education and so on.   Janet bemoans the lack of information about pets and there's a bit of me that wholeheartedly agrees with her; pets are an im...