Category Archives: One-Place Studies

Web Wednesday (7)

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Julie Goucher

The web-Wednesday site for this week is: GB Names This is a really useful site to those interested in the distribution of a surname across Great Britain, using census data for the years 1851, 1861, 1881, 1901 and 1911 (1911 … Continue reading →

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What’s in a Name? – Rediscovering the Field-names of the Rusland Valley and Fells

Posted on December 27, 2023 by Julie Goucher

A few weeks after the #AllAboutThatPlace event I came across the Map Histories Project, organised by Rusland Horizons. I enquired about the associated published book, Rediscovering the Field-names of the Rusland Valley and Fells and was advised it was out … Continue reading →

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Workshop – Journaling Your Place – SOG Online Event

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Julie Goucher

Journaling Your Place is a two hour workshop scheduled for me to deliver at the Society of Genealogists (SOG) in August 2024. Starting off with an extended version of the session delivered as part of the #AllAboutThatPlace event in late … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready for #AllAboutThatPlace

Posted on September 16, 2023 by Julie Goucher

As a founding member of the Society of One-Place Studies I am delighted to be supporting and taking part in All About That Place, a collective and unique challenge event. Don’t forget to join the Society of One-Place Studies, £10 for a year … Continue reading →

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All About That Place

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Julie Goucher

As a founding member of the Society of One-Place Studies I am delighted to be supporting and taking part in All About That Place, a collective and unique challenge event. Don’t forget to join the Society of One-Place Studies, £10 … Continue reading →

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Advent – Day 9

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Julie Goucher

I may have shared the picture below previously, but it is a favourite of mine and comes from the place where my maternal Grandfather was born in 1908, Wanborough in Surrey. This post box bares V R meaning that the … Continue reading →

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The Journey to a Specific Project (2)

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Julie Goucher

You can read other posts Journey to a Specific Project HERE. Thinking back to the pre-internet days, researching our family history or a specific project was a labour of love. We worked from ourselves backward, talking to family members and … Continue reading →

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Almost Within Living Memory

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Julie Goucher

I wrote this back in late October 2021, where it languished with a series of post it notes in my journal, and waited to be finished. It was not until I was working on the Census series that I recalled … Continue reading →

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Census, Parish and One-Place Study Resources

Posted on January 16, 2022 by Julie Goucher

As we undertake our genealogical research, whether that it on our own individual family history, or a specific project, such as a One-Place Study, One-Name Study, or perhaps a project undertaken as part of the Family and Community History Research … Continue reading →

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Census, People and Genealogy – 1911 Census

Posted on January 15, 2022 by Julie Goucher

Continuing with the Census, People and Genealogy series – all posts can be found HERE. There is also a Census downloadable to be found HERE. The 1911 census was more comprehensive than earlier ones. For the first time it recorded … Continue reading →

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