Updated 17 Sep 2017 “If there’s one thing I’ve learned about DNA testing, it is that patience is required.” I wrote those words two years ago, in June 2015, in the first of this series of articles (see Putting the genes into genealogy – Part 1). In the same article, I described genetic genealogy as “a waiting game”. Well, I… Read more »
Britain’s annual genealogical jamboree, Who Do You Think You Are? Live, took place at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, on April 6, 7 and 8 this year. It was an experience which for me had much in common with the shows of previous years, but also some differences. One of the differences was that I only attended for two days… Read more »
After attending the International Police Conference in New York in 1922, Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley, HM Inspector of Constabulary, resumed his normal duties. Travelling around the country, he viewed parades of police officers before inspecting ‘the books’ and the police forces’ facilities. These events provided opportunities to show off local police to the public as well as the Home Office’s… Read more »
I never thought it would be possible to write much in the way of a story about the life of John Atcherley of Kinnersley (nowadays Kynnersley). As a son of agricultural labourer Henry Atcherley (my 2x great grandfather), John was destined for a life of relative obscurity. He never married, and as far as I know he did not father… Read more »
Many members of the Atcherley family employed agricultural labourers. Some Atcherleys, on the other hand, were ‘ag labs’ (to use the abbreviation popular with family historians) or other types of farm workers (waggoners, for example). Finding records which shed light on the lives of these Atcherley ag labs has not been easy – but recently I discovered details of some inquests… Read more »
At the end of January last year I set myself 8 Genealogy Goals for 2016, which fell into three categories: Research, Website, and Giving Back. Even as I put those goals online, I had an inkling that 2016 was not going to be an easy year. Sure enough my old nemesis, depression, came back and hit me rather hard. My… Read more »