Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Having written about securing my digital future this post is all about securing my own personal future. I don’t know whether it is the retirement, the arrival of the grandkids or a combination of the two but I have been thinking more and more about how I can ensure a long, healthy future. You might …
Back in September 2022 I visited the Berkshire Record Office as part of the Heritage Open Days and was shown how important records are preserved and restored. At the end of the post, I wondered how future digital records might similarly be stored in future. I found myself pondering this once more when I was …
Everyone that sees male members of our family remarks how alike we all are and we are, I guess. So I decided to put together a picture of five generations of the Thompson line to see if you could discern the similarities. The result is above (you can click on the image for a larger …
It’s been quite a few years since I last attempted to “do” my family history, close to 20 in fact. In that time an awful lot has changed both in my life and in the wider context of family history research. Over the intervening years I have seen my children grow-up and either left home …
As if any more proof were needed that my Doctor Who obsession started early then this is it. What you see here is a drawing I did when I was seven and sent to my Dad who was away during the week on a training course. It shows, very clearly, a Dalek, next to a …
As already stated elsewhere I am getting back into doing my family history fuelled by my wifes new years resolution. Even better I have now found a way of combining the search for my ancestors with my love for my mp3 player! Strange though it may seem but my iRiver iHp-140 is just the thing …
So it’s that time of the year again when you make your resolutions that last the first week of the new year and then never get spoken of again… Now I’m not suggesting that my wife’s resolution is going to be short lived but it has had a profound effect on me. Helen has this …
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