Journal - Ryedale Roots - April 2024

April 2024 Birdsall

            Birdsall – location and what records are available

            Manor of Birdsall – Tenants 3 October 1758

            Help sought on Allen at Terrington, Eskdaleside and Slingsby

            Let’s write a letter

            Granny’s letter from south east London during the blitz

            Wills recently transcribed

            Newspaper clippings for Birdsall

            Article on in-laws

            Table of Kindred and Affinity

            Extract from Birdsall Burials (available on the RFHG website)

            Will of Robert Jackson, Birdsall 1782

            From the 2023 short story competition – ‘Communications across the centuries and Miles’, ‘Two Prime Ministers and my family history’, and ‘Lost and Found’

            DNA Experiences

            Article on Our Calendar and Quarter Days

            Websites to try

            New resources available on the commercial websites

            Member talks: What is new at the Borthwick;

                        Posted in the past; Irish emigration to Britain

            Remembering the sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland in 1914

            Buckingham Palace

            What are War Diaries?

            Article on Grandma Snow

            Article on D-Day

            Larboard and Starboard – theories of origins