Author Archives: Julie Goucher

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About Julie Goucher

Genealogist, Author, Presenter, native Guildfordian, avid note taker and journal writer. Lover of Books, Stationery & History; Surnames, Butcher & Orlando One-Name Studies. Pharos Tutor for all One-Name Studies/surname courses as well as Researching Ancestors from Continental Europe.

Weekend Cooking – Jane Austen Style

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Julie Goucher

Copyright – Biography.com This last week saw the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Over the course of the last few weeks I have spent some time reading about the Austen’s and the period … Continue reading →

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Family History Writing Challenge 2013 – Day 1

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Julie Goucher

Regular readers of this blog will have seen me make a reference to the family of John King and Mary Budd from Puttenham. John and Mary married on 4 August 1767 at Puttenham, a rural village in Surrey some four … Continue reading →

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February Collage Photo Festival – Day 1

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Julie Goucher

We kick off of a month long visit through our family photos. Over the next 28 days you will see in detail the photographs that were in the collage I created and appeared in yesterday’s post. This first photograph is … Continue reading →

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Creating a Photo Collage (the easy way!)

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Julie Goucher

As you might have seen yesterday, I created this collage for February Photo Collage Festival. When the conversation first came about over at Family History Across the Seas there was a debate of how the collage was created. On the day … Continue reading →

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Photo Collage

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Julie Goucher

My good genea blogging friend Pauline of Family History Across the Seas was my inspiration for this post and a thread of posts that will happen over the coming month. Pauline was originally inspired by Kristin of Finding Eliza. I … Continue reading →

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Filofax – Part Three

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Julie Goucher

In two earlier posts (HERE & HERE)  I explored my Filofax and how it worked for me. One of the comments that was left was that it seemed complicated. I then thought, Was it? I looked again at my structure … Continue reading →

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Library Loot – 28th January

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Julie Goucher

This week I have been to the library twice! – I nipped in on Saturday with a very large bag of books, returning some, renewing some and to collect a book. Today I went as it is the venue for … Continue reading →

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Holocaust Memorial Day

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Julie Goucher

On this day, in 1945 saw the liberation of The Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp. Today, we use this date as a way of commemorating the thousands of families and individuals who suffered during this period of our World history. Earlier this week, … Continue reading →

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Australia Day 2013

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Julie Goucher

Back in 2011, I shared the details of my earliest ancestral links to Australia with a post about Captain George Bridges Bellasis and his wife, Esther nee King. I first became aware of the Bellasis connection to my ancestry back … Continue reading →

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Sepia Saturday 161

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Julie Goucher

This week I am sharing one of my favourite images from my Guildford collection. It is an early picture, dating to 1880 and is of the cattle market at Guildford, which was in 1880 situated in North Street. At some … Continue reading →

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