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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wonderful to find a baptism for my elusive 6xG Grandfather, only for a sudden let down when I find his infant burial record a few weeks later - shame the half dozen tree holders on #Ancestry who claim him as their ancestor haven't noticed it though ! #Genealogy #CheckCarefully

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Always love an #RC priest's attempts to enter place names into #Latin records - here are the villages of #Alston and #Grimsargh in #Lancashire as recorded on an 1840 marriage.. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 06/09/2026

If you want me, I'll be over in my own shop gailmyerscough.co.uk

A photo of Gail with the text ‘Goodbye Etsy. Hello to doing things my own way.’

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking for a professional genealogist or archival researcher in England and Wales? Use our Directory to find an AGRA Member or Associate who can help you. agra.org.uk/memberbrowse

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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First Steps to a One-Place Study. This course is suitable for those who may not want to undertake a full-blown one-place study but who wish to investigate an ancestral area in more detail. www.pharostutors.com/first-steps-...

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Come and speak at our 2027 Conference 'Land and Life - Researching our Rural Ancestors'. For more information see here: www.agra.org.uk/news-call-fo...

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Looking for a professional genealogist or archival researcher in England and Wales? Use our Directory to find an AGRA Member or Associate who can help you. lnkd.in/erhahxUz

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Love an #RC marriage record that gives you info the civil registration doesn't - in this case, of my 2xg grandparents in 1840, the names of both their parents and where they each came from ... "of Lancaster" - the key evidence of the origins of my 3xG grandfather. #Genealogy

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

An interesting & fairly close #Ancestry #DNA contact this week - no paper connection but I suspect my grandfather's brother may have had a part to play.... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I asked for a couple of days off when my 2nd son was born (in 1988). My Chief Supt told me to F...Off and said "you've had 9 months to plan for this, what do you think annual leave is for" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #TimesChange #MetPolice

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Paid police paternity leave to double after fathers reported being ‘ostracised’

Exclusive: Pay increases to two weeks in England and Wales after Guardian revealed officers ‘mocked’ for taking time off

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you are thinking of becoming a professional genealogist or archival researcher working in England and Wales then becoming an AGRA Member or Associate can help you. www.agra.org.uk/join

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

So true - why do so many businesses try and promote themselves with awful #AI generated images, usually with strange orange/amber tint, that look like they've come from a 1950s #Ladybird book. An immediate #turnoff. #RantOver

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Students of IHGS, Pharos and Strathclyde, as well as AGRA Members and Associates are warmly invited to our Autumn Study Day at the Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth on 5 September. buff.ly/f65u91v

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Any #Genealogy researcher in England/Wales will know the sinking feeling when you reach this point in a #FamilyTree ... (my 4xG Grandfather from #Rishton, #Lancashire)

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you are looking for professional research assistance then use our Directory to find an AGRA Member or Associate who can help. agra.org.uk/memberbrowse

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I keep seeing "advice" given that says a dash for the maiden name on the GRO on-line birth index means there is no father named on the entry. NO, it means there is no maiden name recorded for the mother, no more, no less. A father's details could be there .. #Genealogy #CivilRegistration #GetItRight

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A WW1 note from my grandfather to grandmother. I can read most of it but a couple of lines are faded and a bit unclear so as an experiment I asked #ChatGPT to try. It deciphered it as a beautiful love note - but a completely fictional one ! Every word it "read", except one, was wrong. #AIInvention

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Booking is now open for our Autumn Study Day at the Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth on 5 September. Details have been emailed to the membership.

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

AGRA are attending the Cambridgeshire Archives Open Day on Monday 20 July. Do come along and say hello if you are in the area. www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/li...

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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 18/07/2026

Morning! If you like colourful prints, brutalist buildings and vinyl we might get on. Everything is designed in my Manchester studio and made in the UK. If you like what I do, a repost would be ace. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester

Bold illustrated wall art, greeting cards and homewares designed in Manchester. Inspired by architecture, music and mid century design. Made in the UK.

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Some people just set out to confuse future researchers. Joseph was baptised in 1855, to unwed parents shown as #Hough and #Borough. They did go on to marry a couple of years later, but Joseph switched between the surnames #Hough and #Burrow(s) for the rest of his life... #MakeYourMindUp #Lancashire

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Some interesting new relationships shown on #Ancestry transcriptions these days.... I've got one of these ..

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A tragic case, which helped the push for the abolition of the death penalty at the time - I was once shown (in the 90s) the bullet marks which were still visible on the wall at the scene of the crime, and have visited her burial place (Amersham). www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul... #RuthEllis

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Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon

Ellis, 28, was executed in 1955 after fatally shooting her abusive partner David Blakely

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I was often asked why registrars use special ink, in a fountain pen, to sign register entries - was it really necessary ? Here's why - this is a document from only 14 years ago signed by the Met Police Commissioner - signature almost gone already. @mpsheritage.bsky.social #CivilRegistration

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Paul Chiddicks @chiddickstree.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Inspired by something @chalfontr.bsky.social once said - We inherit heirlooms. But one day... We'll become someone's ancestor. What will we leave behind? My latest blog explores that simple but powerful question chiddicksfamilytree.com/2026/07/10/w... #Genealogy #Heirloom #Keepsake

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What Legacy Will You Leave Behind?

Legacy Isn’t Just What We Inherit – It’s What We Leave Behind There’s something profoundly moving about family heirlooms. They are more than objects passed from one generati…

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Pam comisiynu un o ymchwilwyr AGRA? (Why should you hire an AGRA genealogist?- Read our Welsh language pamphlet) www.agra.org.uk/_resources/w...

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Why should you hire an AGRA genealogist? www.agra.org.uk/_resources/w...

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just removed my account from "the other place" - haven't really used it since it became such a toxic place, so a very good feeling #X #NoThanks

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Sometimes unravelling a complex family means going back to the drawing board ... literally. One of the best tools for solving a difficult #Genealogy problem #PenAndPaper

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Interesting to find an infant relative, born in 1874 who sadly died a couple of months later. Birth and death both registered as Wilfred, a boy, yet the RC baptism clearly shows Winifred, a daughter . #Genealogy #Mystery #WhosRight #Blackburn

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Had a lovely family #FathersDay #BBQ yesterday with sons and grandchildren, was a little confused by the instructions on the apron I was given though ❓️

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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Our Advanced Certificate is ideal for anyone thinking of becoming a Professional Genealogist and looking to get a good foundation in genealogy. www.pharostutors.com/family-histo... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #DistanceLearning #OnlineCourses #GenealogyCourses

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Having a good #FathersDay so far, my son got me a great #vinyl album from the year he was born (1988). Best supergroup ever ? #80s #TravellingWilburys

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I know it's a #Catholic record and therefore in #Latin, but #Ancestry really has no excuse for this level of transcription error. #BuriedAlive #Genealogy #AncestryHour

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Remembering another of my G-Aunts - Mary Corless. Born #OnThisDay in 1875, in #Blackburn. Never married and lived with my grandparents - died 1958.

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sometimes researching a family really makes you stop and think - a couple (relatives of mine in #Blackburn) had 8 children and only 1 survived infancy. In March 1918, they (age 81 & 82), their one surviving son (47) and his wife (43) all died of #pneumonia within just 25 days. #SpanishFlu ?

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Remembering my G-Aunt, Florence Corless, who died 11/6/1963. One of the generation of #WW1 widows. Married for 3 months before her husband left for France and didn't return. She never re-married, and her son, who his father never saw, was my God-Father. #OnthisDay

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I think I may have broken our #Kenwood food processor and it was a treasured #engagement present ...😢 Although we did get married 41 years ago !....😀

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A report of the 1899 death of a relative (with a clear & tragic implication), printed only a day after it happened ... interesting though that the report of the inquest held a week later was worded much more sympathetically. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Blackburn

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Society of Genealogists and Family History Federation are jointly arranging an online conference for the NextGen of family historians, to be held Saturday 14 November 2026 and are asking for presentations from young genealogists. sog.org.uk/nextgen2026/

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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Our Advanced Certificate is for anyone looking to get a good foundation in genealogy. www.pharostutors.com/family-histo... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #DistanceLearning #OnlineCourses #GenealogyCourses

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Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#MeetTheTutors Cathy Soughton @bucksresearch.bsky.social is a qualified genealogist with over 30 years experience in historical research, with a particular interest in house history. Find out more about Cathy: www.pharostutors.com/cathy-soughton

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you are thinking of becoming a professional genealogist or archival researcher working in England and Wales then becoming an AGRA Member or Associate can help you. www.agra.org.uk/join

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

John Wintrip, AGRA Member, has written a new book 'A History of Parish Registers in England and Wales: From the Restoration to Civil Registration', which is reviewed here: www.emmajolly.co.uk/blog/2026/05...

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AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The Call for Papers is now open for our 2027 Conference 'Land and Life - Researching our Rural Ancestors'. For more information see here: www.agra.org.uk/news-call-fo... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

My country cottage getaway for a #family get together this weekend ( only 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms) ...built in 1628. Should be fun.

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Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Great to meet up with the @agragenealogy.bsky.social 3 Counties group yesterday for an #inperson meeting and lunch. So much more valuable discussion, especially over lunch, than ever happens when meeting on the dreaded #Zoom #genealogy

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