Subscribe to Genealogy Ensemble’s news feed.
Click on “Follow” and decide if you want to get news from Genealogy Ensemble via RSS, as email newsletter, via mobile or on your personal news page.
Subscription to Genealogy Ensemble comes without risk as you can unsubscribe instantly at any time.
You can also filter the feed to your needs via topics and keywords so that you only receive the news from Genealogy Ensemble which you are really interested in. Click on the blue “Filter” button below to get started.
Website title: Genealogy Ensemble | Working together to help genealogists discover their ancestors
Is this your feed? Claim it!
It started with a Brenda Lee YouTube video I viewed. Suddenly, the decades melted away, and I realised I had actually seen her in person. Not on a screen, but right there in front of me, in my home town of Plymouth, Devon, England.
It was 1963, and I was employed as an usherette at the ABC Cinema at Derry’s Cross. Built in 1938 as the Royal Cinema, this grand Art De...
By Lucy Anglin and Janice Hamilton (2nd cousins)
One of the biggest challenges in researching our family history was discovering what happened to our four-times-great-grandmother, Pamela Stanley, the wife of Phineas Bagg (c. 1750–1823). Like many women in colonial America, Pamela left very few records behind.
We knew that Phineas and his children moved fro...
My seven-times great grandfather Isaac Phelps (1638-1725) was like the Energizer bunny: he never seemed to stop. For much of his life, he worked hard as a farmer and he held many offices in his home town in New England, but he also became a school teacher at age 64 and was named a captain in the militia at age 71. Only death seemed to slow him down, at age 87, and his tombsto...
All houses have a history, and number 69 Seaton Street, Toronto, had my family members living in it for more than 60 of its 150-year life. It was part of a five-row house. Houses in the Cabbage Town area were built in the 1850s to the 1880s for the workers. The houses wer...
These days, when I need to employ some math to figure out a household problem, such as how many pesos to take to Cancun or what is more economical, using Keurig pods or canned coffee, I rely on Google.
That’s because much like my handwriting, my math skills have atrophied over the years.
But, was I ever good at math? That I really can’t tell you.
...