@chiddickstree

Family History and Local History Researcher, avid Blogger and Writer and the face behind the ‘Dear Paul’ column in Family Tree Magazine

 Cheshire, previously lived in Thurrock.
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Joined August 2017
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The life of Adelaide Springett, a child of Victorian London. Behind one photograph is a story of loss, poverty, trauma, and survival against the odds. If we’re to understand history, we have to remember lives like hers. #SocialHistory #VictorianLondon chiddicksfamilytree.com/2024…

Who Was Adelaide Springett?

Another iconic picture and another innocent life captured forever behind a lens, but who was the poor little girl whose life was perpetually framed in this picture and what was her story? The littl…

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Whose awake
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Pan@Passionflower99Oct 25
Heir hunters uncover 27 relatives in £1.2m case as families urged to make wills. @chiddickstree @emmajolly @TiaBruhn @HistoricalTris1 todayswillsandprobate.co.uk/…

Heir hunters uncover 27 relatives in £1.2m case as families urged to make wills | Today's Wills and...

Heir hunters from Fraser and Fraser are urging people to make a will this Free Wills Month, after an extensive investigation uncovered 27 previously unidentified relatives entitled to inherit from...

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Paul Chiddicks@chiddickstreeApr 17
The life of Adelaide Springett, a child of Victorian London. Behind one photograph is a story of loss, poverty, trauma, and survival against the odds. If we’re to understand history, we have to remember lives like hers. #SocialHistory #VictorianLondon chiddicksfamilytree.com/2024…

Who Was Adelaide Springett?

Another iconic picture and another innocent life captured forever behind a lens, but who was the poor little girl whose life was perpetually framed in this picture and what was her story? The littl…

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Mainely Genealogy@ME_genealogyOct 19
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I am 😜 Feel free to meander over to my YouTube channel youtube.com/@mainelygenealog… to see proof 🤓

Mainely Genealogy

Genealogy and more genealogy. Specializing in British and colonial North American genealogy, but we'll go wherever our ancestors left records.

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Statistically most accidents happen within two miles of your home……..that’s why I moved 😉
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Is anybody real on here anymore?
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Pan@Passionflower99Oct 8
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@chiddickstree @TiaBruhn @emmajolly @HistoricalTris1 @LynnsWPics
Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳@DebbieKennettOct 8
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Here is information from AncestryDNA about the changes in the latest update. I don't yet seem to have regions by grandparent. ancestry.co.uk/c/dna/ancestr… 3/3
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Cuba Research Project 🌳🧬
@CubaResearchPRJOct 8
We have made transcribing cuban handwritten records even easier. We've upgraded our transcription technology. Upload a photo of a handwritten record. We now find the page first and cut away the facing page, so the reading is sharper. This comes with every plan, Free included. Paid plans add word confidence. Any word read with less than 70% certainty is marked in violet. Click one and the scan jumps straight to it. Fix it, or press Enter and move on. • Up to 500 pages a month • Scans up to 100 MB • Your pages read first • Plans from $9 a month Start free: cubaresearchproject.com/tran… #cuba @genealogy
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Morning
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In the wide awake club again
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Pan@Passionflower99Oct 3
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HistoryandHeritageYorkshire@GenealogyBeechOct 3
🧵Carrying on from yesterday's posts. During the Victorian era, Leeds became an important centre for the "fashion of mourning," shaped by strict social conventions surrounding bereavement. The demand for appropriate mourning dress encouraged the growth of specialist mourning
Briggate in Leeds, featuring Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse (founded in 1849) alongside the Viaduct Vaults, captured around 1870–1890. Image@ Leeds Museums and Galleries.

ALT Briggate in Leeds, featuring Frederic Forster's Mourning Warehouse (founded in 1849) alongside the Viaduct Vaults, captured around 1870–1890. Image@ Leeds Museums and Galleries.

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With so much AI generated content I have no idea of who is real or who is AI?
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I went looking for a battlefield and found a cemetery. At Saint-Venant, I stood beside the canal, visited the memorial to 97 Royal Welch Fusiliers and walked among the graves of men killed during the desperate fighting of May 1940 chiddickstree.substack.com/p…
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Pan@Passionflower99Sep 30
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@chiddickstree @HistoricalTris1 @TiaBruhn @LynnsWPics @emmajolly
Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳@DebbieKennettSep 30
Looking back on 30 years at Ancestry and what's to come in the future. The video includes a sneak peak at the forthcoming new regions by grandparent feature. youtu.be/hgIRjel-vC8?si=CTqT…
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Paul’s stories bring history to life and salvage what would have been lost. Can’t imagine walking through. #genealogy #familyhistory #forgotten
Paul Chiddicks@chiddickstreeJul 16
They locked their doors expecting to return in a few weeks. More than 80 years later, the village of Tyneham still stands empty. #Genealogy #Dorset #FamilyHistory #History #Village chiddicksfamilytree.com/2026…

Tyneham: The Village Where Time Stood Still

A Dorset village evacuated during the Second World War, where a promise to return was never fulfilled Hidden within the rolling hills of Dorset lies one of Britain’s most poignant reminders o…

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Pan@Passionflower99Sep 12
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@chiddickstree @emmajolly @LynnsWPics @DebbieKennett @TiaBruhn @HistoricalTris1 👇👇👇
BALH@BALHNewsSep 12
Do you have a Ten Minute Talk idea to share with us? We're always looking for new stories of local history research! Find out more: balh.org.uk/news-promote-you… #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
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