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Joe Williams

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Dorset-based archivist. Genealogy, heritage & art

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Joe Williams

@jcwilliams.bsky.social

#familyhistory #genealogy

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · Mar 21

BREAKING: The BBC has announced the celebrity line-up for this year's #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre. Will you be watching? Whose episode are you most looking forward to? #wdytya

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March 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Sue Wilkes

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ancestors

World War Two: Child's memoir found on door panel after almost 80 years

It details how a lack of power, the cold winter, and food rationing were creating struggles.

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January 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM

Joe Williams

@jcwilliams.bsky.social

As an archivist, coming across a second catalogued collection for my great-grandfather has made a great end to the week! Even better that it’s only a couple of hours from me: archives.worc.ox.ac.uk/records/PDR/9 #FamilyHistory #Ancestry

January 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM

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Else Churchill

@elsesoggenealogist.bsky.social

Good news for the #genealogy community. Seems the MoJ proposal to destroy original post 1858 probate documents won’t be going ahead. Still lots to keep our eye on though

www.sog.org.uk/news/genealo...

Genealogists help save wills from destruction

MoJ concedes that probate docs will not be destroyed

www.sog.org.uk

January 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM

Joe Williams

@jcwilliams.bsky.social

#FamilyHistory on the brain today: Eveline Cunnington (1901-1984), my longest-lived and last-surviving great-grandparent - who died on this day forty years ago. We missed out on meeting by just a few days! #Ancestry #Genealogy