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Graeme Coles-Andrew

@genealogygraeme.bsky.social

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Project Tooting180.org commemorates the victims of the "Tragedy at Tooting" in 1849. Surname interests: Andrew, Behagg, Caldwell, Coupe, Hawkins, Hellfritzsch www.youtube.com/@GenealogyGraeme #Genealogy #Tech #SQL #PHP #WordPress #Podcast #Puns

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Faces some of whom went on to be in Big Faces

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy St Patrick's Day to the Liverpudlian ancestors in my family tree, who while mostly Irish by DNA, remained free of unnecessary documentation to that effect - the Carrs, Powers and Laugharnes I'm looking at you! Sláinte!

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Rowena Abbott @rowena-abbott.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Having just finished up a project, I’d like to let people know that I’m available for clients! I offer historical document transcriptions and genealogy research. rowenagenealogy.com #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Devon #Palaeography

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Rowena Abbott Genealogy

Professional Transcription and Family History Services

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Any experts here on Krakow, Poland family history resources? I've a UK friend visiting later this year, gt-grandfather from there. #genealogy

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Good work, young man. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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'Cleaning graves gets me off PS5'

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Workhouse question for the #genealogy gang... In my part of London there's a high incidence of people admitted to workhouses (mid 18th C) having just smashed a street lamp or window. Would such crimes have been a way to get admission to the house, while minor enough to avoid a custodial sentence?

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#genealogy gang, if a child in the 1840s was discharged from a workhouse "for adoption by" a member of the nobility would this be adoption in the modern legal sense? Or putting them into education, maybe with a respectable family, etc, but not as part of the adoptee's family as such.

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Tell me you don't know what AI is without telling me you don't know what AI is. #genealogy

A screenshot of Ancestry.com's "Ask AncestryAI" feature which says "Explore records with AI. Learn what this record has to say with AncestryAI." The feature generates a few English language sentences baased on info within the record selected, but shows no intelligence in doing so, such as suggestions for further research, corrections or an idea of how reliable the record is. Its main output comes from simply inserting data fields into a predetermined sentence structure.

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A quick explainer on one way to get #genealogy data from a spreadsheet onto your WordPress website. A few people have asked me about this lately. It's an easy way to publish searchable genealogy info, and a good first step towards a more sophisticated solution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqXK...

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Excel to WordPress with TablePress - 5 minute version

YouTube video by Genealogy Graeme

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Distant cousin, 1921 census says he worked as a railway engine cleaner for LNER. Dies 1923 age 20. I just wonder... ...and indeed @rwldproject.bsky.social came up trumps. "Cleaning ashes... passing between the buffers & he was pinched. [He] was chiefly to blame" bsky.app/profile/rwld...

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Enjoying the free 1921 England & Wales census access yesterday

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a man with gray hair and a beard is drinking from a cup while reading a book .

Alt: Gandal the wizard is drinking from a cup while reading a parchment

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Graeme Coles-Andrew @genealogygraeme.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

While digitising family albums lately I was delighted to identify my biological gt-grandfather Charles Hawkins (1862-1943) of Warboys & Mossley. Dog unidentified. These look like allotment clothes to me. My grandfather, known in town as a Hawkins, passed on his official surname Andrew.

Charles Hawkins 1862-1943 of Warboys and Mossley

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