Author: dave

  Sorry about the delay in this issue but I had to nip over to Italy for a week’s holiday – my wife insisted and who am I to argue 😉   FEEDBACK I’d just like to say thank you to the people who kindly sent their feedback to me – it is most useful. Thanks must also got to...

Hi Everyone Quite a large update this time. PLEA FOR FEEDBACK Could I ask people to let me have some feedback regarding the site please. Working in isolation means that I only do what seems right to me without knowing how it impacts on other users. The database/tree – Does the software do what you want?, – Is there a...

Hi Everyone   A reasonable amount of information to report this time, and I still have 30+ emails to deal with which I am hoping to make inroads into whilst on holiday for a week starting next Friday – nowhere exciting, unless you think Ledbury falls into that category J   Dave   Mooney family Christine Gavin nee Mooney contacted...

Hi Everyone Just a very quick update. Julia Isaacs Thanks for the feedback on Julia Isaacs in the previous update – this is being discussed by several people and I will report back once a consensus has been reached. Henry Jacobs [Z005] Gerry Newnham has sent in a photograph of his tombstone in West Ham cemetery along with a partial...

Hi I hope that everyone is keeping well – especially those of you in Australia with all the weather you’ve been having. Unfortunately I don’t know what areas everyone down there is in. It’s been 6 weeks since I sent the last update so there’s a reasonable amount to tell you. Swaebe Carol Ann Swaebe Stephen has been in touch...

Hi Everyone, hope you are well.   Another update done today.   Thanks to June Keating who has found the birth, and death of Simeon Jacobs, both in 1864. Added two photographs of Henry & Hannah Gomm’s tombstone, courtesy of Nellie Johnston. Nellie reports that although Henry is no listed on the tombstone, cemetery records confirm that they are  both...

Hi   Hope everyone is keeping well.     Back in July I met up for lunch with Gerry Newnham and he gave me some material that he had gathered from various research in the London Metropolitan Archives and elsewhere. I have now had the opportunity to review it and add it to the system. The first items are two...

Hi Everyone Two updates in two weeks – I’ve been trying to get my finger out and clear the backlog of material that has been submitted. First – I’ve managed to partly break the website – I was trying to make an improvement and it went wrong and I can’t work out what I’ve done to break it! Everything works,...

Hi Everyone I hope that you are all keeping well. A fairly big update this time – and I’ve still got to find time to process a lot of stuff that people have sent in (Sorry June, Phil, Gerry). Dave Roy Parker We have a new ‘cousin’  in Roy who is the Great Grandson of David Jacobs [Z265]  via Philip...

I hope that everyone is keeping well.   There is quite a lot in this newsletter and I’ve had to cut it short as I’m about to go on holiday and can’t do justice to the rest in the time left.   Tip for locating streets in the census. The National Archives have a project  called ‘Your Archives’ which contains,...