A Blogging Achievement – 50 Marriage Mondays Completed

How did I do?

I have achieved the publication of 50 marriages, 24 from Dad’s side and 26 from Mom’s side, listed in calendar order below.  The seed was planted when I was obsessing about the word count for my Masters degree thesis, which was supposed to be up to 16,000 words.  The total 50 Marriage Mondays word count comes to 30,788 ‘words’, but includes tables, captions and anything else WordPress blogging software thinks is a word.

Other objectives were:

Publish weekly

Close, I took a 4 week break between 25 March and 15 April, so these posts were published out of calendar order. One other post filled in a week when there was no marriage (30 July).  The publishing calendar was invaluable.  Now I need to make another one.

Cousin bait

Yes, some cousins made contact, but writing made me reconnect with people and make new contacts.

Putting the marriages into historical context and sharing a useful output.

I think I achieved this, do you?

Re-visiting my database, data verification, and properly recording sources.

Mixed progress.  The database still needs work.  I have found a lot of new information, but most has not been entered into the database.  I have been re-evaluating my research procedures and developing ideas about what genealogical software should really do.  Some material not included will be refined, expanded, and possibly submitted as a paper to FHISO.

1. Stamp duty and authenticity of legal documents
2. Citation and Verification or ‘Where the hell did I get this from?’
3. Which Church? – Church and State Jurisdictions
4. Hold the Front Page and 1960s Social Care of the Elderly
5. Parish Register copies – Microfilm, Fiche, Transcripts, Abstracts and Indexes
6. Parish Register Inconsistencies and Finding a lost website
7. English Civil Registration Tools – FreeBMD, FamilySearch England Jurisdictions 1851, and A Vision of Britain
8. Making the Connection between Civil Registration and Census Records
9. A Wartime Wedding
10. Of this parish – Residence requirements for marriage
11. Online Search and Index Adventures with Ancestry and Findmypast
12. Name change and Insurance
13. Baptist Marriage and Birth records
14. Civil Marriage and Witness Identification
15. Is it George or Jack?  Engagement photograph identification
16. A Boxing Day Marriage by Licence
17. Marriage Banns and Putting Faces to Names
18. Now you see it, now you don’t –  IGI and FamilySearch
19. Following the Farmers – A Research Plan
20. Representing Multiple Marriages and Crossing Connections
21. Copies of Copies, Citation and Source Evaluation with FamilySearch
22. Women in the Property Records of Clent Manor
23. Common Surname Trouble – Adams in Birmingham
24. Naming Patterns as Evidence of Kinship
25. Vanishing Artifacts – the Gravestone and Silver Spoon
26. Skipping Down the Generations – Ancestral Surname used as a Middle Name
27. Marriage on Facebook and a Customised Chart
28. The Girl Next Door? Local History, Maps and Back-to-Backs
29. Evidence of Illiteracy among the Bargees of Britain’s Venice
30. Who’s who?  Digital Photo Annotation
31. Non-conformist Marriage by an Authorised Person
32. The Housekeeper, the Valet and Grand Connections
33. GRO Index Discrepancy or Name Variations?
34. 20th Century sources – Electoral rolls, Google Maps and Land Registry
35. Picking up the Tailor’s Thread through Trade Directories
36. Provenance of a Personal Collection – Archival Accession, Arrangement and Description
37. Linking the Jeweller’s chain through Trade Directories
38. Is a Rare Surname easy to find?  Searching for Barrowclift with Ancestry and FindMyPast
39. Keeping it in the Family?
40. Religious Affiliation and Who’s the mom?
41. Pieces of Evidence – Corroborating a Family Tale
42. Wills and Location – Further Evidence supporting the Inherited Family History
43. Engagement Evidence – The Diamond Ring
44. The Wife’s Whisper – Indirect Evidence from the Manorial Court
45. Postcard Correspondence with In-laws
46. Housing and Economic Status
47. Cousins  and a Golden Wedding Anniversary
48. Death, Divorce or Desertion?
49. Isa and Charlie – Double Tragedy
50. The School Master and Seed Cake

© Sue Adams 2013

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