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LizG

@trivvieliz.bsky.social
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A craft loving family historian. Researching in Kent, Sussex and Renfrewshire. Has a website for Cuckfield registered on Society of One Place Studies...www.cuckfieldcompendium.co.uk

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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After many years I have found the 1851 census image ofor my husband's great grandfather who came over from Ireland. He appeared to have married in January 1851 and his wife died 18 months lter. The census confirms it is the same person as his place of birth was Wicklow Ireland........
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#GenHour This week I have been busy adding Kent Baptisms and Burials to my FH project.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thinking of the blog prompt #OnePlaceCarers makes me think about Nurse Stoner who served Cuckfield well. Plenty of information can be found here cuckfieldmuseum.org/nurse-stoner... #OnePlaceStudies
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Nurse Stoner – Cuckfield Museum
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#GenHour I have been using gedminer.com to help find insights, research possibilities, validation and mistakes in my gedcom. It is a web based programme and not stored anywhere else, just upload your gedcom use the programme and when you close your browser all the results etc are gone.
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GEDminer - In-Browser GEDCOM Analysis Tool
Upload and analyse your GEDCOM file in your browser. Spot errors, duplicates and gaps, and explore migration patterns - free, no signup.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
#Genealogy My 2x great grandmother, Eliza Keeley, died on this day in 1909 in Salehurst, East Sussex, just 6 days after her husband died.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I have been concentrating on death indexes recently so I can identify which might be my ancestors GRO certificates to get. #AncetryHour
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hoping to join in #AncestryHour tomorrow but will I remember in time? !!!! Only free for the first 30 minutes as then have a zoom meeting.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#GenHour Don't forget the wonderful resource of genealogybtxts on the Internet Archive archive.org/details/gene...
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hi #GenHour my cousin kindy recorded his mother, my aunt who was 100 in April, talking about her memories of WW2 which broke out as she left school. She recorded it for my granddaughter who is studying WW2 at school. Made me very aware of the missed opportunities when my parents were alive.
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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Sorry I missed the chat tonight. Sussex Family History Society had a zoom talk with Dr Sophie Kay and her work with Time Team using the Modbury site to show what she did and how it integrated with the Time Team Genealogy work. Was a fascinating talk. @scientistsoph.bsky.social #GenHour
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This proposed new building of homes is on green land that is well used by local residents - please sign to help,us save it from development: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
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Help Save Wickham Fields
Wickham Fields is one of the last open green spaces left in this part of Haywards Heath. It has been used by dog walkers, families, and residents for generations. Crest Nicholson want to build 50 hous...
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My 3x great grandmother was Dorcas Vant. Written for a family history group meeting. #GenealogyStories #FamilyHistory sussexheritage.blogspot.com/2025/10/dorc...
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Dorcas Vant c1798-1844
Dorcas’ Life: Dorcas Vant , my 3x great grandmother, was born around 1798 in the quiet parish of Westwell in Kent, the daughter of Edwar...
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
It's been a while since I have written on my blogs but today I have been playing around with a suggested AI prompt that I used in Co-Pilot and was happy with the end result after a few revisions and addional information. #FamilyHistory #GenealogyStories sussexheritage.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-le...
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A Letter from my grandmother
A Letter from Annie White, 1950 My dear children yet to come, I pray this letter finds you in good health and good heart, though I kno...
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Evening #AncestryHour . Am afraid I can't be with you tonight as am at a zoom meeting/talk about #OnePlaceStudies
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy Yorkshire Day! Our members have registered 37 #OnePlaceStudies in Yorkshire, including towns, villages, parishes, streets, cemeteries, a school, and an orphans’ home. They can be found via the following links: ✦ East Yorkshire ✦ North Yorkshire ✦ South Yorkshire ✦ West Yorkshire
A montage of four one-place study graphics, for Spaldington OPS (image: a white-walled, two-storey cottage with a small front garden), Embsay-with-Eastby OPS (image: a black and white 'finger post' sign with a large tree and a two-storey, stone-built cottage in the background), Heckmondwike Grammar School OPS (image: a large, three-storey, stone-built school building), and St Stephen's Churchyard, Acomb OPS (image: a churchyard, with many gravestones). 
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
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Julie Muirhead - The Lineage Finder @thelineagefinder1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
NEW BUSINESS!!! Hampshire, UK based Genealogist. Please see my website thelineagefinder.co.uk for more info. If you could help me spread the word, I'd be most grateful and if you're looking for some research to be done drop me a message 😀 #Genhour #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
The Lineage Finder logo
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Evening #GenHour was at a Zoom meeting this morning for the Family Historian Zoom Group. We had a talk by @coachcarole.bsky.social on the practical uses of AI in Genealogy. A superb talk. It covered how AI can assist your research rather than find you info about your ancestors #Genealogy
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
#OnThisDay 26 July, in 1947 my grandfather, Frank Grieve Jackson died. He was born in 1873 in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire and died in Molash, Kent. #FamilyHistory
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
To all my friends....you will no longer be able to direct message me as @bsky.app insists I need to do age verification. No way am I giving it's 3rd party a facial scan or my credit card details. If it reduces too many other features then I may well leave and not come back.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I forgot to add this to my #OnThisDay post yesterday and it is something I find very touching & yet so coincidental. After Dad's funeral in church we went to the crematorium in Eastbourne. The funeral cortege, unexpectedly& unplanned, took the coastal road across the marshes to Eastbourne ....2/
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Time to sign off now #GenHour ...see you again next Thursday.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I've created a basic template timeline in Excel. I've added facts and events that happened in the UK during the period 1800 - 2000. I 'm using this for my ancestors; customising it to their cradle to grave time period and added in extra according to their occupations & local events too. #GenHour
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New record collections on Ancestry can be found here. www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle... Always good to check in case any are needed by you. Nothing for me this time #GenHour
ancestry.co.uk
Card Catalog - Ancestry.com
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
#OnThisDay in 2006 was the funeral service for my father in Bexhill, East Sussex. He was 87 years old. My nephew called him a gentleman and he was. A kind, caring gentle man who rarely raised his voice. It is appropriate that I am looking for more newspaper reports of him #FamilyHistory #GenHour
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Evening #GenHour Haven't been doing much family history ofver the last few weeks because of the hot weather but hope to get back on track now. Currently searching the FMP newspapers for articles about my ancestors.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
This month's topic for my U3A FH group meeting has to begin with the letter T. I pondered tombstones,Travel, Tragedy, Trains, Turnpikes, Tithes, Troublemakers, Traditions and Timelines. I settled for Timelines as it is so helpful for finding gaps in my research. #Genealogy #GenealogyStories ../2
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
#OnThisDay in 2006 my father died in Bexhill, East Sussex just 3 days before his 60th wedding anniversary. Memories of the day are still with me and I think will be for the rest of my life. #FamilyHistory
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Our family history group meeting was a topic beginning with the letter S. I had fun writing and researching about a silver spoon my grandad won for Small Bore Miniature Rifle Clubs back in the early 1900s. #FamilyHistory #GenealogyStories sussexheritage.blogspot.com/2025/06/fran...
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Frank Horace Weston - Shooting as a hobby
There are many newspaper reports of Frank shooting in the local Miniature Rifle Club competitions in Robertsbridge, Sussex, England in th...
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Good evening #GenHour Good to be back with you after a few missing weeks due to health or lack of mojo. Mojo has definitely clicked back in and am busy entering census details for my ancestors.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#OnePlaceStudy The webinar "One Place Study as a Research Tool" is free on Legacy Family Tree Webinars for 6 days. familytreewebinars.com/webinar/the-...
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The One Place Study as a Research Tool - Legacy Family Tree Webinars
A one place study explores an ancestral place in depth by studying the history, the environment, and the people of a place over time. Learn practical strategies...
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Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
#GenHour is tomorrow at 8pm UK time on BlueSky!
#GenHour is tomorrow at 8pm UK time on BlueSky!
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Advance notice of our next #OnePlaceWednesday Live, an opportunity for Society members to get together virtually and chat / ask questions about all things #OnePlaceStudy! This will take place on July 9th, with three Zoom sessions to accommodate a variety of time zones / working patterns.
#OnePlaceWednesday LIVE! 
9 July 2025. 
Image: A picture representing a laptop computer with 12 head-and-shoulder views of people engaged in an online chat. 
10am – 12 noon | 2pm – 4pm | 6pm – 9.30pm UK time (BST). 
www.one-place-studies.org/events/ 
One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#OnThisDay my 4x great grandfather, TRhomas Eldridge was baptised in Sedlescome, Sussex on 14 Jun 1778. He married Abigail Crouch on 27 May 1809 in Ewhurst, Sussex. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Today in 1909 my 2x great grandfather, George Gadd, from Sussex, died #FamilyHistory #Genealogy He was born 1833 in Shover's Green and died in Salehurst.
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West Sussex Record Office @westsussexro.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Dancing for joy because we are finally on Bluesky! 👋
Black and white photograph of three women dancing. Four other women and sitting and smiling while watching the others dance. Another woman stands in the background watching the dancing with an expression of slight bewilderment.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Evening #GenHour I haven't been doing much genealogy other than research about the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, their silver spoons and the Donegal Badge. Folk on here were great help. I think I have my "S" topic for my family history group well on the way:- Society, Silver, Spoon, Shooting.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Hi #AncestryHour I am busy researching about the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs as my grandfather won a silver spoon which I now have.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
@howwegothere.bsky.social You might find this post useful for making connections on here. #AncestryHour is 7pm UK time on Tuesdays and #Genhour is 8pm UK time on Thursdays
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My grandfather was an excellent miniature rifles club shooter in Sussex for the Robertsbridge club. One newspaper report in the 1910's shows he was in a competition for the Donegal Badge. I have not found anything more about the badge. Can anyone help? #Genealogy
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I need to get more of the information from my #AtoZChallenge blogs uploaded to my #OnePlaceStudy website but been busy tidying up the house so room for my daughter's family to stay over the weekend. Little evidence of my craft room or husband's railway workshop now; back to being bedrooms #GenHour
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The June meeting for my U3A family history group meetings involves a topic beginning with the letter S. Need to start thinking of what I will choose so I can do some research. #GenHour
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Áine ní Donnghaile 🍃🌳 ⚾ 🫖 💙☘ 🍷💉🌊 @ainedonnghaile.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#FamilyHistory #Genearosity #PayItForward You know the drill by now. I'm at my #FamilySearch #FSC this afternoon. Happy to do look-ups for anyone who needs a copy or three from the restricted records. #SpreadTheWord @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie @alliethinks.bsky.social @allthosebefore.bsky.social
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
#OnePlaceStudy .... there is an upcoming webinar on Legacy FamilyTree Webinars for one place studiers familytreewebinars.com/webinar/the-...
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The One Place Study as a Research Tool - Legacy Family Tree Webinars
A one place study explores an ancestral place in depth by studying the history, the environment, and the people of a place over time. Learn practical strategies...
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@sogorg.bsky.social I believe you are an affiliate library for FamilySearch. Is this in person access at your premises or is it available for online research from home?
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I've enjoyed reading the topics and responses today. Thanks #GenHour Another lively evening. 😊
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#GenHour This is also another good site to explore. Hope it is helpful to someone ogindex.org/search
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OGIndex
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#GenHour This was a new source for me today; hoping it is of interest to others researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/....
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ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid connects you with archives around the world to find historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#GenHour Does anyone use Wikitree? I joined as a guest today and thinking whether to consider more. Found an ancestor and tracked back down and then found they didn't have the marriage or children of my 2x great grandmother. Feeling a bit daunted about whether to progress. #Vant from Kent
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LizG @trivvieliz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#GenHour Do you use Family Historian as desktop software? I can't recommend the Family Historian Zoom Group highly enough. They have frequent zoom meetings and sub groups for DNA and for using ORA. Videos of previous meetings are available to view. Worth the small fee to join fhzg.co.uk/index.html
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Family Historian Zoom Group
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