Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
@mandytherootsgenie.bsky.social
Genealogist & Family Historian.
One of the Few Forgotten Women team.
AGRA Associate.
RQG Student Member.
Pharos Advanced Grad.
IHGS Higher Cert student.
Cat Lover.
Interests:
*DNA *Local History *Maps
*Military History *Heraldry
*Travelling *Fine Dining
One of the Few Forgotten Women team.
AGRA Associate.
RQG Student Member.
Pharos Advanced Grad.
IHGS Higher Cert student.
Cat Lover.
Interests:
*DNA *Local History *Maps
*Military History *Heraldry
*Travelling *Fine Dining
Looking forward to assisting Caroline on this one on Thursday.
Getting round Latin Documents Caroline Adams' Zoom Tutorials starts this Thursday lunchtime 16 Oct 12pm
1: Title Deeds & Dating
Join us for an engaging Zoom tutorial designed to help you navigate Latin, even if you have no prior knowledge of the language.
www.ihgs.ac.uk/online-tutor...
1: Title Deeds & Dating
Join us for an engaging Zoom tutorial designed to help you navigate Latin, even if you have no prior knowledge of the language.
www.ihgs.ac.uk/online-tutor...
Online Tutorials and Workshops | IHGS
www.ihgs.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Looking forward to assisting Caroline on this one on Thursday.
Reposted by Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
@afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social are out and about today at the @shropshirefhs.bsky.social Talking Family History Live day.
Great talk on what the #FewForgottenWomen team is all about by Ann - @gwilymsmum.bsky.social
We also have a stall with Ann and Margaret @researchdogsbody.bsky.social
Great talk on what the #FewForgottenWomen team is all about by Ann - @gwilymsmum.bsky.social
We also have a stall with Ann and Margaret @researchdogsbody.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
@afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social are out and about today at the @shropshirefhs.bsky.social Talking Family History Live day.
Great talk on what the #FewForgottenWomen team is all about by Ann - @gwilymsmum.bsky.social
We also have a stall with Ann and Margaret @researchdogsbody.bsky.social
Great talk on what the #FewForgottenWomen team is all about by Ann - @gwilymsmum.bsky.social
We also have a stall with Ann and Margaret @researchdogsbody.bsky.social
Reposted by Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
Some stories and a new #ForgottenWomenFriday for #InternationalDayoftheGirl #DomesticServants #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/weston-...
Weston Park Servants - Celebrating International Day of the Girl with stories and a new Forgotten Women Friday Everyday
This year, for International Day of the Girl, we have a series of offerings inspired by some of those who appear in the Weston Park Servants' Database. Weston Park is a 1000+ acre estate that straddle...
www.fewforgottenwomen.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sorry to be missing it - these sessions are always fun and so interesting.
This evening a fun & practical Tutorial for those with some basic heraldic knowledge.
Blazoning and Papworth with Ann Ballard 9 Oct 6:30pm
Next in the new series of tutorials focussing on blazoning and identification of the correct heraldry in Papworth.
www.ihgs.ac.uk/online-tutor...
Blazoning and Papworth with Ann Ballard 9 Oct 6:30pm
Next in the new series of tutorials focussing on blazoning and identification of the correct heraldry in Papworth.
www.ihgs.ac.uk/online-tutor...
Online Tutorials and Workshops | IHGS
www.ihgs.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Sorry to be missing it - these sessions are always fun and so interesting.
Must listen to this
I was recently a guest on the #Genealogy podcast - Armchair Genealogy. I had a wonderful time, just chatting with @genealogyguy.co.uk about all things #FamilyHistory
If you'd like to take a listen, just click on the link below.
share.transistor.fm/s/a4832bf6
If you'd like to take a listen, just click on the link below.
share.transistor.fm/s/a4832bf6
Genealogist Kelly Cornwell chats with the Genealogy Guy about research tips | Armchair Genealogy - Family Tree & History | Episode 24
share.transistor.fm
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Must listen to this
Have you signed up yet?
📜✨ Manuscript Mondays with Caroline Adams!
90-min online palaeography classes — £10 each.
🗓 Next: Mon 7:30pm — “Middling Examples”
➡️ 10 Nov: Quarter Sessions
➡️ 1 Dec: Christmas Palaeography
Book: manuscriptmondays@gmail.com
#Palaeography #History
90-min online palaeography classes — £10 each.
🗓 Next: Mon 7:30pm — “Middling Examples”
➡️ 10 Nov: Quarter Sessions
➡️ 1 Dec: Christmas Palaeography
Book: manuscriptmondays@gmail.com
#Palaeography #History
October 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Have you signed up yet?
Love this idea! I’m anxiously awaiting the release too. #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour
I've added a little countdown clock to the 1926 census release on my website.
cbgenealogy.ie #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour
cbgenealogy.ie #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour
September 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Love this idea! I’m anxiously awaiting the release too. #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour
I was lucky enough to win one of Helen’s previous giveaways. Why not enter?
✨ GIVEAWAY 2-16 October 2025 ✨
To launch 'Yet', win:
📖 1 signed hardback
📚 5 ebooks
Harry Drabble’s 1937 story of TB, separation & survival reveals hidden disability history & resilience.
👉 tinyurl.com/yvsarvza
#MemoirGiveaway #Memoir #TrueStory #FamilyHistory #GenHour #AncestryHour
To launch 'Yet', win:
📖 1 signed hardback
📚 5 ebooks
Harry Drabble’s 1937 story of TB, separation & survival reveals hidden disability history & resilience.
👉 tinyurl.com/yvsarvza
#MemoirGiveaway #Memoir #TrueStory #FamilyHistory #GenHour #AncestryHour
Win a signed special edition hardback or one of 5 ebooks of ‘Yet’: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability by Helen Parker-Drabble.
Win a signed special edition hardback or one of 5 ebooks of ‘Yet’: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability by Helen Parker-Drabble. by Helen Parker-Drabble. Hosted by King...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I was lucky enough to win one of Helen’s previous giveaways. Why not enter?
Hello #AncestryHour hope you have all had a good week. I’ve just sent off a report after researching a WWII Naval Lieutenant Commander who was awarded both the D.S.C. and D.S.O. as well as a separate mention in despatches. It’s a honour to research such heroes isnt it? What are you all researching?
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hello #AncestryHour hope you have all had a good week. I’ve just sent off a report after researching a WWII Naval Lieutenant Commander who was awarded both the D.S.C. and D.S.O. as well as a separate mention in despatches. It’s a honour to research such heroes isnt it? What are you all researching?
It’s always such a privilege to help families uncover hidden chapters of their history. This kind feedback truly means the world to me.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WWIIHistory #MilitaryResearch #FamilyStories
#WeWillRememberThem
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WWIIHistory #MilitaryResearch #FamilyStories
#WeWillRememberThem
August 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
It’s always such a privilege to help families uncover hidden chapters of their history. This kind feedback truly means the world to me.
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WWIIHistory #MilitaryResearch #FamilyStories
#WeWillRememberThem
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #WWIIHistory #MilitaryResearch #FamilyStories
#WeWillRememberThem
August 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Reposted by Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
Happisburgh, #Norfolk, considers how to save a 15th C graveyard from coastal erosion.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Plans gathered to save graves from coastal erosion in Happisburgh
A crumbling cliff edge is now 80m away from a 15th Century church's graveyard.
www.bbc.com
July 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happisburgh, #Norfolk, considers how to save a 15th C graveyard from coastal erosion.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Our 400th story and it’s a really good one…
Our 400th Story! Thank you everyone. www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/it-is-o...
#familyhistory #genealogy #socialhistory #womenshistory
#familyhistory #genealogy #socialhistory #womenshistory
It is our 400th Story!
We are excited to announce that we have now uploaded our 400th story to the website. It was only November when we hit 300, so a huge thank you to all our lovely volunteers who have made this possible ...
www.fewforgottenwomen.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Our 400th story and it’s a really good one…
Reposted by Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
More exciting news
July 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
More exciting news
Thoroughly enjoyed participating in the latest Forgotten Women Friday researching women born in the same year as Queen Victoria, 1819.
The first stories from Friday's Forgotten Women Friday are now available www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/first-s... Many thanks to all who contributed #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #SocialHistory #WomensHistory
First Seven Stories from Victoria's Cohort
The first stories from Friday's Forgotten Women Friday are now on the website and you can read them here. All these women were born in 1819, the same year as Queen Victoria but had very different expe...
www.fewforgottenwomen.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed participating in the latest Forgotten Women Friday researching women born in the same year as Queen Victoria, 1819.
Reposted by Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
And we are off. It is #ForgottenWomenFriday and our volunteers should all have their emails with the name of a women born in 1819 to research.
July 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
And we are off. It is #ForgottenWomenFriday and our volunteers should all have their emails with the name of a women born in 1819 to research.
Watching ELO and love how the BBC subtitles have “Bruce” rather than “Groos” in Don’t Bring Me Down! I sang that for years…
July 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Watching ELO and love how the BBC subtitles have “Bruce” rather than “Groos” in Don’t Bring Me Down! I sang that for years…
Reposted by Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
What are you up to next Friday? Why not join us in researching a woman (or women) born in 1819…. Full details on our website
www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819
www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819
July 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What are you up to next Friday? Why not join us in researching a woman (or women) born in 1819…. Full details on our website
www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819
www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819
Reposted by Mandy Geary 🏡🧬🐈
What are you doing Monday at 7pm? Why not join us in our monthly online palaeography class?
#Palaeography #OldHandwriting #Genealogy
#Palaeography #OldHandwriting #Genealogy
July 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
What are you doing Monday at 7pm? Why not join us in our monthly online palaeography class?
#Palaeography #OldHandwriting #Genealogy
#Palaeography #OldHandwriting #Genealogy
Make Your Mondays Marvellous with Monthly Manuscript Mondays
June 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Congratulations Fi!
We are thrilled and delighted to announce that Fiona Movley, one of our FFW team, has been awarded an MBE for Services to Charity in the King's Birthday Honours List.
Congratulations Fi from us all, with lots of love xxxx
@movley.bsky.social
harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/news/harroga...
Congratulations Fi from us all, with lots of love xxxx
@movley.bsky.social
harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/news/harroga...
Harrogate arts charity chair ‘delighted’ by MBE honour | Harrogate International Festivals
harrogateinternationalfestivals.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Congratulations Fi!
Come join us researching women born in 1819
#OTD 1819 Queen Victoria was born - but she wasn’t the only remarkable woman born that year
Join our next #ForgottenWomenFriday as we uncover the stories of women born in 1819 in #Wem or #WellsNextSea & help give them their place in #history
Full details: www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819
Join our next #ForgottenWomenFriday as we uncover the stories of women born in 1819 in #Wem or #WellsNextSea & help give them their place in #history
Full details: www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819
May 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Come join us researching women born in 1819
The latest from the @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social team.
A Few Forgotten Women present a radio-style play for VE Day 'It's Alright for you Women!' about women's wartime experiences. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dw5... #VEDay #WomensHistory
It's Alright for you Women! A Special VE Day 2025 Production by the Few Forgotten Women Team
YouTube video by A Few Forgotten Women
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May 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The latest from the @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social team.
Walter Whenday - a deaf and dumb bootmaker — a man who heard nothing but saw and recorded it all.
#VEDay #VEDayAnniversary #VEDay80thAnniversary
#WWIIHistory #DeafHistory
#HistoricalDiaries
www.therootsgenie.co.uk/blog/rbf5rgz...
#VEDay #VEDayAnniversary #VEDay80thAnniversary
#WWIIHistory #DeafHistory
#HistoricalDiaries
www.therootsgenie.co.uk/blog/rbf5rgz...
A Silent Witness to Victory in Europe | The Roots Genie - family history and DNA services
As the guns fell silent across Europe and crowds filled the streets to celebrate Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945, one man recorded the moment not with fanfare, but in quiet, handwritten reflectio...
www.therootsgenie.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Walter Whenday - a deaf and dumb bootmaker — a man who heard nothing but saw and recorded it all.
#VEDay #VEDayAnniversary #VEDay80thAnniversary
#WWIIHistory #DeafHistory
#HistoricalDiaries
www.therootsgenie.co.uk/blog/rbf5rgz...
#VEDay #VEDayAnniversary #VEDay80thAnniversary
#WWIIHistory #DeafHistory
#HistoricalDiaries
www.therootsgenie.co.uk/blog/rbf5rgz...
My sister named her florist Violet & Flo after our grandmother and her husband’s grandmother - she is up for Best Suffolk Florist - voting closes at 1pm today (uk) and it’s neck and neck between Violet & Flo and last year’s winner…. suffolkcambs.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/vote/
Muddy Stilettos Awards 2025 - Vote | Muddy Stilettos
The Muddy Stilettos Awards are the most coveted awards for independent lifestyle businesses across 35 counties, and totally FREE to enter!
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April 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
My sister named her florist Violet & Flo after our grandmother and her husband’s grandmother - she is up for Best Suffolk Florist - voting closes at 1pm today (uk) and it’s neck and neck between Violet & Flo and last year’s winner…. suffolkcambs.muddystilettos.co.uk/awards/vote/