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.

A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies O is for Occupation

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Julie Goucher

The Channel Islands were during the Second World War, occupied by the Nazis and the lives of the Islanders changed perhaps for ever. It of course, was not just the Islanders, whose lives were irrevocably changed, but those too of … Continue reading →

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A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies N is for Names

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Julie Goucher

Those who frequent this blog would have likely known that N had to be for Names! Our names are a way of highlighting us, as individuals, linking to our past both in terms of our people and our history. There … Continue reading →

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A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies M is for Mining

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Julie Goucher

I wrote quite recently on Sicilians who worked the sulphur mines in Sicily. In terms of the United Kingdom, over the centuries we have mined, with some success (and failings), coal, tin, copper, slate and even gold. Further afield Opal … Continue reading →

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A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies L is for Genealogical & Historical Learning

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Julie Goucher

The best way of learning is to be inspired by someone or a group of someones. Many genealogists and indeed others too, say that “school history was learning to dry facts for two years in order to get an O … Continue reading →

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European Ancestors – Romani,Travellers & Gypsy’s

Posted on April 11, 2020 by Julie Goucher

The flag shown here is the flag of the Romani people. It was approved by the representatives of various Romani communities at the first World Romani Congress, held in Orpington, Kent, England in 1971. Two distinct groups of Ethnics, that … Continue reading →

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A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies I is for Instrument Makers

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Julie Goucher

When I began researching my Grandmother’s family, and in particular her ELSTONE line, I encountered my Grandmother’s maternal Aunt, Eliza Elstone. Eliza married Joseph PARSLOW and they emigrated to Canada. Indeed they did emigrate, but did not like it, so … Continue reading →

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A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies H is for Health

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Julie Goucher

In these days of modern medicine you would probably expect that the majority of support and knowledge came from Doctors or Health Professional. I have been qualified in my allied health profession for 30 years, but it has always been … Continue reading →

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A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies G is for Games and their History

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Julie Goucher

For today’s post I am sharing some back story, leading to my interest, in cricket, for which I am a very unlikely candidate! Having traced my maternal Grandfather’s family back to Puttenham in Surrey, where I was introduced to the … Continue reading →

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European Ancestors – Romanian Research

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Julie Goucher

At the point of the outbreak of the Second World War, in 1939, there were approximately 750,000 individuals who were of the Jewish faith. Yet fewer than half survived the war, despite the fact the Germany did not occupy the … Continue reading →

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A-Z Challenge 2020 – Specialised Studies F is for Fairgrounds, Fun & Travellers

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Julie Goucher

I have talked previously about researching travellers and Gypsy research, during my Oral History Series,  On revisiting some notes made about 10 years ago and then verifying those details, I can confirm the Drakeley family who were involved in the … Continue reading →

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