Inspiring today’s #GenealogyStories prompt - Midwife
✍️ Midwife ancestors
✍️ The local midwife
✍️ Changes in midwifery throughout the generations
#Genealogy
✍️ Midwife ancestors
✍️ The local midwife
✍️ Changes in midwifery throughout the generations
#Genealogy
I am SO happy! I just bought my 4x great grandmother's death certificate and she was a MIDWIFE! She's my 1st midwife & I'm so excited & have so much to read now! It explains all the random unmarried women who lived at her house—I'd thought she had an informal boarding house for them. #Genealogy
February 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Inspiring today’s #GenealogyStories prompt - Midwife
✍️ Midwife ancestors
✍️ The local midwife
✍️ Changes in midwifery throughout the generations
#Genealogy
✍️ Midwife ancestors
✍️ The local midwife
✍️ Changes in midwifery throughout the generations
#Genealogy
What a lovely evening to say farewell to the xmas lights. But now onwards and upwards to another year of #FamilyHistory
#LocalHistory
#OnePlaceStudy
#GenealogyStories
My life in #4
#LocalHistory
#OnePlaceStudy
#GenealogyStories
My life in #4
January 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What a lovely evening to say farewell to the xmas lights. But now onwards and upwards to another year of #FamilyHistory
#LocalHistory
#OnePlaceStudy
#GenealogyStories
My life in #4
#LocalHistory
#OnePlaceStudy
#GenealogyStories
My life in #4
Found it! Inspired by this brilliant blog post - your #GenealogyStories word of the weekend is: Hands!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
My hands are old, they look like my mother’s hands What tasks did your ancestors hands undertake? Do your hands do some of these same tasks? I discovered how left-handed I am while my left hand recovers with 5 stitches pulling tight earlieryears.blogspot.com/2025/01/hand... #FamilyHistory #genealogy
Hands through the years
Family history of Horgans, O'Deas, Galvins and Stirlings and the state of South Australia.
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January 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Found it! Inspired by this brilliant blog post - your #GenealogyStories word of the weekend is: Hands!
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
Inspiring today’s #GenealogyStories writing prompt: Moustache.
🥸 Your moustache donning ancestors
🥸 An ancestor in disguise?
🥸 Changing styles and trends in facial hair
🥸 US & UK differences and similarities (moustache or mustache)
#Genealogy #Writing
🥸 Your moustache donning ancestors
🥸 An ancestor in disguise?
🥸 Changing styles and trends in facial hair
🥸 US & UK differences and similarities (moustache or mustache)
#Genealogy #Writing
In June 1902, Henry Jackson broke into a South London home and stole some billiard balls. He left his thumbprint on a freshly painted windowsill and became the first person in Britain convicted based on fingerprint evidence.
His mustache should’ve earned him credit for time served.
#truecrime
His mustache should’ve earned him credit for time served.
#truecrime
December 3, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Inspiring today’s #GenealogyStories writing prompt: Moustache.
🥸 Your moustache donning ancestors
🥸 An ancestor in disguise?
🥸 Changing styles and trends in facial hair
🥸 US & UK differences and similarities (moustache or mustache)
#Genealogy #Writing
🥸 Your moustache donning ancestors
🥸 An ancestor in disguise?
🥸 Changing styles and trends in facial hair
🥸 US & UK differences and similarities (moustache or mustache)
#Genealogy #Writing
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Iron
✍️ Ironmonger or blacksmith ancestors
✍️ Decorative iron gates and artwork
✍️ Strong as iron
✍️ Iron deficiencies
✍️ Ironing clothes
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Ironmonger or blacksmith ancestors
✍️ Decorative iron gates and artwork
✍️ Strong as iron
✍️ Iron deficiencies
✍️ Ironing clothes
#Genealogy #Writing
February 11, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Iron
✍️ Ironmonger or blacksmith ancestors
✍️ Decorative iron gates and artwork
✍️ Strong as iron
✍️ Iron deficiencies
✍️ Ironing clothes
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Ironmonger or blacksmith ancestors
✍️ Decorative iron gates and artwork
✍️ Strong as iron
✍️ Iron deficiencies
✍️ Ironing clothes
#Genealogy #Writing
Thanks to the extraordinarily detailed ‘Dade Registers’ of the northeast, I know that my great (x5) grandfather, William BARTON, was a ‘wool comber and native of the City of Norwich’. 🐑 #GenealogyStories
Your #FamilyHistory writing prompt today is “sheep”. Some examples:
🐑 An ancestor that’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing
🐑 Being a “sheep” and following others
🐑 Sheep farmers
🐑 Wooly evidence
#GenealogyStories
#Genealogy
🐑 An ancestor that’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing
🐑 Being a “sheep” and following others
🐑 Sheep farmers
🐑 Wooly evidence
#GenealogyStories
#Genealogy
a white sheep with a red tag on its ear is looking at the camera
Alt: a white sheep with a red tag on its ear is looking at the camera
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November 15, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Thanks to the extraordinarily detailed ‘Dade Registers’ of the northeast, I know that my great (x5) grandfather, William BARTON, was a ‘wool comber and native of the City of Norwich’. 🐑 #GenealogyStories
#GenealogyStories prompt: Wine
✍️ Wine making
✍️ Who drank it and where?
✍️ Homemade wines
✍️ Taking communion
✍️ Wine for celebrations
✍️ Too much wine
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Wine making
✍️ Who drank it and where?
✍️ Homemade wines
✍️ Taking communion
✍️ Wine for celebrations
✍️ Too much wine
#Genealogy #Writing
April 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
#GenealogyStories prompt: Wine
✍️ Wine making
✍️ Who drank it and where?
✍️ Homemade wines
✍️ Taking communion
✍️ Wine for celebrations
✍️ Too much wine
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Wine making
✍️ Who drank it and where?
✍️ Homemade wines
✍️ Taking communion
✍️ Wine for celebrations
✍️ Too much wine
#Genealogy #Writing
Today was #SingleParentsDay, & I found myself thinking about my experiences & how things have / haven’t changed with time.
Makes a great #GenealogyStories prompt:
✍️ celebrate & remember your single parent ancestors
✍️ compare and contrast attitudes, available support, experiences
#Genealogy
Makes a great #GenealogyStories prompt:
✍️ celebrate & remember your single parent ancestors
✍️ compare and contrast attitudes, available support, experiences
#Genealogy
March 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Today was #SingleParentsDay, & I found myself thinking about my experiences & how things have / haven’t changed with time.
Makes a great #GenealogyStories prompt:
✍️ celebrate & remember your single parent ancestors
✍️ compare and contrast attitudes, available support, experiences
#Genealogy
Makes a great #GenealogyStories prompt:
✍️ celebrate & remember your single parent ancestors
✍️ compare and contrast attitudes, available support, experiences
#Genealogy
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tall
✍️ Tall tales, proved true or false?
✍️ Tall ancestors, is it in your genes?
✍️ Height restricted professions
✍️ Standing tall with pride
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Tall tales, proved true or false?
✍️ Tall ancestors, is it in your genes?
✍️ Height restricted professions
✍️ Standing tall with pride
#Genealogy #Writing
June 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tall
✍️ Tall tales, proved true or false?
✍️ Tall ancestors, is it in your genes?
✍️ Height restricted professions
✍️ Standing tall with pride
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Tall tales, proved true or false?
✍️ Tall ancestors, is it in your genes?
✍️ Height restricted professions
✍️ Standing tall with pride
#Genealogy #Writing
I forgot to do my prompt this morning, so today’s #GenealogyStories writing prompt is: Forgotten
✍️ A forgotten ancestor, rediscovered!
✍️ A source you forgot to check
✍️ Moments that would never be forgotten. Cherished or challenging.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
✍️ A forgotten ancestor, rediscovered!
✍️ A source you forgot to check
✍️ Moments that would never be forgotten. Cherished or challenging.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
December 2, 2024 at 4:44 PM
I forgot to do my prompt this morning, so today’s #GenealogyStories writing prompt is: Forgotten
✍️ A forgotten ancestor, rediscovered!
✍️ A source you forgot to check
✍️ Moments that would never be forgotten. Cherished or challenging.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
✍️ A forgotten ancestor, rediscovered!
✍️ A source you forgot to check
✍️ Moments that would never be forgotten. Cherished or challenging.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
Back to work & back to word prompts, today’s #GenealogyStories prompt: Back
💡An ancestor that left home only to return
✍️ An ancestor you keep going back to
💡 Research you need to go back to dig deeper
✍️ A time you wish you could go back to
#Writing #Genealogy
💡An ancestor that left home only to return
✍️ An ancestor you keep going back to
💡 Research you need to go back to dig deeper
✍️ A time you wish you could go back to
#Writing #Genealogy
January 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Back to work & back to word prompts, today’s #GenealogyStories prompt: Back
💡An ancestor that left home only to return
✍️ An ancestor you keep going back to
💡 Research you need to go back to dig deeper
✍️ A time you wish you could go back to
#Writing #Genealogy
💡An ancestor that left home only to return
✍️ An ancestor you keep going back to
💡 Research you need to go back to dig deeper
✍️ A time you wish you could go back to
#Writing #Genealogy
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Vaccination (inspired by shared post).
✍️ Early vaccinated ancestors, advocates and protestors
✍️ Ancestors that died from conditions now vaccinated against
✍️ Pioneers in immunology
✍️ Vaccination records
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Early vaccinated ancestors, advocates and protestors
✍️ Ancestors that died from conditions now vaccinated against
✍️ Pioneers in immunology
✍️ Vaccination records
#Genealogy #Writing
Edward Jenner, physician & father of immunology, who saved lives worldwide; administered first smallpox vaccination #OTD 1796.
National Portrait Gallery London
National Portrait Gallery London
May 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Vaccination (inspired by shared post).
✍️ Early vaccinated ancestors, advocates and protestors
✍️ Ancestors that died from conditions now vaccinated against
✍️ Pioneers in immunology
✍️ Vaccination records
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Early vaccinated ancestors, advocates and protestors
✍️ Ancestors that died from conditions now vaccinated against
✍️ Pioneers in immunology
✍️ Vaccination records
#Genealogy #Writing
Latest #GenealogyStories prompt: Frugal
✍️ Ways your ancestors tried to save money
✍️ Make do and mend
✍️ Recycling and re-purposing
✍️ Home made food, crafts, gifts
✍️ The rise of branded goods
✍️ Stingy ancestors and decedent ancestors!
✍️ Genealogy money saving tips!
#Writing #Genealogy
✍️ Ways your ancestors tried to save money
✍️ Make do and mend
✍️ Recycling and re-purposing
✍️ Home made food, crafts, gifts
✍️ The rise of branded goods
✍️ Stingy ancestors and decedent ancestors!
✍️ Genealogy money saving tips!
#Writing #Genealogy
April 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Latest #GenealogyStories prompt: Frugal
✍️ Ways your ancestors tried to save money
✍️ Make do and mend
✍️ Recycling and re-purposing
✍️ Home made food, crafts, gifts
✍️ The rise of branded goods
✍️ Stingy ancestors and decedent ancestors!
✍️ Genealogy money saving tips!
#Writing #Genealogy
✍️ Ways your ancestors tried to save money
✍️ Make do and mend
✍️ Recycling and re-purposing
✍️ Home made food, crafts, gifts
✍️ The rise of branded goods
✍️ Stingy ancestors and decedent ancestors!
✍️ Genealogy money saving tips!
#Writing #Genealogy
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt: Twelve
✍️ Age 12, what’s it like?
✍️ Ancestors with 12 kids
✍️ Your top 12 tips
✍️ Your top 12 ancestors and why
✍️ 12 generations!
✍️ 12 mistakes you’ve made
✍️ 12 places in your ancestors lives
Please do share your blog posts!
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Age 12, what’s it like?
✍️ Ancestors with 12 kids
✍️ Your top 12 tips
✍️ Your top 12 ancestors and why
✍️ 12 generations!
✍️ 12 mistakes you’ve made
✍️ 12 places in your ancestors lives
Please do share your blog posts!
#Genealogy #Writing
February 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt: Twelve
✍️ Age 12, what’s it like?
✍️ Ancestors with 12 kids
✍️ Your top 12 tips
✍️ Your top 12 ancestors and why
✍️ 12 generations!
✍️ 12 mistakes you’ve made
✍️ 12 places in your ancestors lives
Please do share your blog posts!
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Age 12, what’s it like?
✍️ Ancestors with 12 kids
✍️ Your top 12 tips
✍️ Your top 12 ancestors and why
✍️ 12 generations!
✍️ 12 mistakes you’ve made
✍️ 12 places in your ancestors lives
Please do share your blog posts!
#Genealogy #Writing
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tracks
✍️ Wrong side of the tracks
✍️ On track!
✍️ Train tracks (rail or braces!)
✍️ Tracking back
✍️ Tracking source citations!
✍️ Off the beaten track
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Wrong side of the tracks
✍️ On track!
✍️ Train tracks (rail or braces!)
✍️ Tracking back
✍️ Tracking source citations!
✍️ Off the beaten track
#Genealogy #Writing
May 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tracks
✍️ Wrong side of the tracks
✍️ On track!
✍️ Train tracks (rail or braces!)
✍️ Tracking back
✍️ Tracking source citations!
✍️ Off the beaten track
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Wrong side of the tracks
✍️ On track!
✍️ Train tracks (rail or braces!)
✍️ Tracking back
✍️ Tracking source citations!
✍️ Off the beaten track
#Genealogy #Writing
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Table
✍️ Furniture makers
✍️ Kitchen table conversations
✍️ Turning the tables
✍️ Learning times tables
✍️ Using tables to record & analyse research
✍️ Laying the table
#Writing #Genealogy
✍️ Furniture makers
✍️ Kitchen table conversations
✍️ Turning the tables
✍️ Learning times tables
✍️ Using tables to record & analyse research
✍️ Laying the table
#Writing #Genealogy
February 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Table
✍️ Furniture makers
✍️ Kitchen table conversations
✍️ Turning the tables
✍️ Learning times tables
✍️ Using tables to record & analyse research
✍️ Laying the table
#Writing #Genealogy
✍️ Furniture makers
✍️ Kitchen table conversations
✍️ Turning the tables
✍️ Learning times tables
✍️ Using tables to record & analyse research
✍️ Laying the table
#Writing #Genealogy
Inspired by my kids 😆, today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is “stroppy”. Ideas:
😡 Ancestors that you feel deserved a good old strop
😡 Teenagers
😡 Tricky research that made you stroppy
😡 Ancestors that you’ve found evidence for actually being “stroppy”
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
😡 Ancestors that you feel deserved a good old strop
😡 Teenagers
😡 Tricky research that made you stroppy
😡 Ancestors that you’ve found evidence for actually being “stroppy”
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
November 18, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Inspired by my kids 😆, today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is “stroppy”. Ideas:
😡 Ancestors that you feel deserved a good old strop
😡 Teenagers
😡 Tricky research that made you stroppy
😡 Ancestors that you’ve found evidence for actually being “stroppy”
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
😡 Ancestors that you feel deserved a good old strop
😡 Teenagers
😡 Tricky research that made you stroppy
😡 Ancestors that you’ve found evidence for actually being “stroppy”
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
Adding #GenealogyStories to make this more findable. Follow along if you want regular prompts to help you share your ancestors stories.
November 14, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Adding #GenealogyStories to make this more findable. Follow along if you want regular prompts to help you share your ancestors stories.
Todays #GenealogyStories word is: Song
✍️ popular songs or ballads during your ancestors lives
✍️ songs about places your ancestors lived
✍️write a song about an ancestor!
✍️ singer or musician ancestors
✍️ your music memories
#Genealogy
✍️ popular songs or ballads during your ancestors lives
✍️ songs about places your ancestors lived
✍️write a song about an ancestor!
✍️ singer or musician ancestors
✍️ your music memories
#Genealogy
February 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Todays #GenealogyStories word is: Song
✍️ popular songs or ballads during your ancestors lives
✍️ songs about places your ancestors lived
✍️write a song about an ancestor!
✍️ singer or musician ancestors
✍️ your music memories
#Genealogy
✍️ popular songs or ballads during your ancestors lives
✍️ songs about places your ancestors lived
✍️write a song about an ancestor!
✍️ singer or musician ancestors
✍️ your music memories
#Genealogy
Inspired by that lovely feeling you get when you meet people that share your interests, today’s #GenealogyStories word is: Belonging
✍️ Ancestors that give you that feeling
✍️ Clubs and Societies of the past
✍️ Communities and shared stories
✍️ The displaced robbed of that sense of belonging
#Genealogy
✍️ Ancestors that give you that feeling
✍️ Clubs and Societies of the past
✍️ Communities and shared stories
✍️ The displaced robbed of that sense of belonging
#Genealogy
January 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Inspired by that lovely feeling you get when you meet people that share your interests, today’s #GenealogyStories word is: Belonging
✍️ Ancestors that give you that feeling
✍️ Clubs and Societies of the past
✍️ Communities and shared stories
✍️ The displaced robbed of that sense of belonging
#Genealogy
✍️ Ancestors that give you that feeling
✍️ Clubs and Societies of the past
✍️ Communities and shared stories
✍️ The displaced robbed of that sense of belonging
#Genealogy
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Alms
✍️ Those receiving alms
✍️ Those giving alms
✍️ Almshouses
✍️ Changing attitudes to the poor, or to the elderly and how they are cared for
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Those receiving alms
✍️ Those giving alms
✍️ Almshouses
✍️ Changing attitudes to the poor, or to the elderly and how they are cared for
#Genealogy #Writing
February 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Alms
✍️ Those receiving alms
✍️ Those giving alms
✍️ Almshouses
✍️ Changing attitudes to the poor, or to the elderly and how they are cared for
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Those receiving alms
✍️ Those giving alms
✍️ Almshouses
✍️ Changing attitudes to the poor, or to the elderly and how they are cared for
#Genealogy #Writing
Latest #GenealogyStories word is: Plumbing
✍️ Evolution of the “bathroom”
✍️ Sewers, aquaducts, cesspits, septic tanks, natural water filters, water sources, rivers, lakes, wells…
✍️ Plumbing ancestors
✍️ Pipeline lines, blockages and clogs in your genealogy research
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
✍️ Evolution of the “bathroom”
✍️ Sewers, aquaducts, cesspits, septic tanks, natural water filters, water sources, rivers, lakes, wells…
✍️ Plumbing ancestors
✍️ Pipeline lines, blockages and clogs in your genealogy research
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
May 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Latest #GenealogyStories word is: Plumbing
✍️ Evolution of the “bathroom”
✍️ Sewers, aquaducts, cesspits, septic tanks, natural water filters, water sources, rivers, lakes, wells…
✍️ Plumbing ancestors
✍️ Pipeline lines, blockages and clogs in your genealogy research
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
✍️ Evolution of the “bathroom”
✍️ Sewers, aquaducts, cesspits, septic tanks, natural water filters, water sources, rivers, lakes, wells…
✍️ Plumbing ancestors
✍️ Pipeline lines, blockages and clogs in your genealogy research
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
I have a tall tale that proved to be true. One of my ancestors was alleged to have made 3,000 coffins and this fact was recorded on his gravestone. Turns out it was a different ancestor, and the figure was 6,600 … but it *IS* on his gravestone. #GenealogyStories #FamilyHistory #Writing
June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I have a tall tale that proved to be true. One of my ancestors was alleged to have made 3,000 coffins and this fact was recorded on his gravestone. Turns out it was a different ancestor, and the figure was 6,600 … but it *IS* on his gravestone. #GenealogyStories #FamilyHistory #Writing
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tenancy
✍️ Rental rights (or lack of them), affects - now vs then
✍️ House hunting in the past!
✍️ Moving home memories
✍️ Investigating the rental homes of your ancestors, what did they pay & who to?
You can guess what’s inspired this 😢
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Rental rights (or lack of them), affects - now vs then
✍️ House hunting in the past!
✍️ Moving home memories
✍️ Investigating the rental homes of your ancestors, what did they pay & who to?
You can guess what’s inspired this 😢
#Genealogy #Writing
March 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today’s #GenealogyStories prompt is: Tenancy
✍️ Rental rights (or lack of them), affects - now vs then
✍️ House hunting in the past!
✍️ Moving home memories
✍️ Investigating the rental homes of your ancestors, what did they pay & who to?
You can guess what’s inspired this 😢
#Genealogy #Writing
✍️ Rental rights (or lack of them), affects - now vs then
✍️ House hunting in the past!
✍️ Moving home memories
✍️ Investigating the rental homes of your ancestors, what did they pay & who to?
You can guess what’s inspired this 😢
#Genealogy #Writing
I have just finished off two more Memories posts for my blog. One will be public next Monday and the next one the following Monday. Really enjoying using @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social writing prompts. #FamilyHistory #GenealogyStories sussexheritage.blogspot.com
A Sussex Family Heritage
My ancestors from Sussex, Kent and Scotland
sussexheritage.blogspot.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I have just finished off two more Memories posts for my blog. One will be public next Monday and the next one the following Monday. Really enjoying using @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social writing prompts. #FamilyHistory #GenealogyStories sussexheritage.blogspot.com