It takes a lot of time but I appear to have plenty of free time at the moment. I also hope to make a start on the 1911 census which I put off.
This week I have been doing two Coates tasks. [1] More work on the churchyard plot identification mentioned in my previous post. [2] I have been looking through my database of burials and researching dates of birth. This is fairly easy to do if a person appears on the 1939 Register. In other cases a tree on Ancestry might have a date someone has discovered. I have worked backwards from 1980 to 1960 - so far - and added these dates to the memorials on FindAGrave.
It takes a lot of time but I appear to have plenty of free time at the moment. I also hope to make a start on the 1911 census which I put off.
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I completed the task of uploading my Whittlesey Cemetery photos to Findagrave a while back. During the current lockdown I have been looking again at the Coates plot map. As well as giving numbers to 'plots' which have no headstones, I have been trying to match up burials with the church plot maps I was able to scan some years ago.
My current task is to photograph and add the headstones in Whittlesey Cemetery to FindaGrave. It will be a long job.
I have put up more Peterborough Advertiser news 1942-1945. I had done 1940 and 1941 last year. See THIS page
Work on this site has been further delayed by a stay in hospital. I am still about!
This Blog is not the easiest to use. I thought I'd add a comment to the effect that I am busy with other projects at present but hope to do more here later (or sooner, who knows)
It may look as if this site is not being maintained but I have not gone away! I thought I'd pop in and add a blog comment to prove it. It took a while to make the blog poster work because Weebly has a few quirks (well, I think so) although I do marginally prefer it to Wordpress and much prefer it to Wix, both places where I have other websites.
My 'job' as Journal editor for the P&DFHS keeps me pretty busy but I have also been checking over my own family tree in RootsMagic. So many of my ancestors came from Coates that I am bound to do a little more researach and add it to the site here. Let's hope so. As I have had a cold for the last 2 days I have uploaded more news to the website. These are the extracts covering 1935 to 1941. I was surprised that the outbreak of war in 1939 did not result in more war-related news from Coates (as it had in WWI) but I think the Advertiser treated the conflict differently. Later visits will reveal the answer, I hope.
Peterborough Library Archives (Vivacity) is only open on Wednesdays from 2-5pm so I arrived in good time and went through the microfilms of the Peterborough Advertiser for 1933 and 1934, although I have the last 3 weeks of December to do as I'd only paid for 3 hours of parking.
Thus it takes me about and hour and a half to go through a year. I jot down topic headings and take photographs of the screen to read later if there is any news I think I need. This method works well enough for my purposes. UPDATE 3/6/2017 - News uploaded. |
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