How to Find Meaningful Stories in YOUR Family Tree
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2024
- As family historians, our greatest goal is to turn names and dates into rich stories that we can use to connect with our family and wider audiences. But does a family tree really have that much to say about something like a love of gardening? Yes! This video discusses the process of turning an interest, like gardening, into themes that we can then explore in the records.
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A special thanks to the following institutions for their dedication to digitizing historical records. The Public Domain images used in this video are over 100 years old or 70 years has passed since the passing of their creator:
National Library of Wales
ArtUK
York Art Gallery
Boston Public Library
Digital Commonwealth
Artvee
Yale Center for British Art
Special thanks to Raymond O’Connor for allowing me to use the portrait of William Davies.
Special thank you to newsletter subscriber WhiteLight for supporting in the creating of this video!
A great idea with children too!
I agree! It certainly worked on baby me!
I haven't found much of a pattern occupation wise with my family in the 20th century.
Most of my male ancestors worked down the pit which is not unexpected here in the Rhondda Valley. Everybody however were passionate gardeners. My first interest in finding out about my family was sparked by my grandfather while sitting in his quite large allottment.
I would have been about 7 years of age (64 years ago) . He told me that our family had lived locally for hundreds of years. A remark sent me on a quest thirty years later to find out more.
About this time last year I joined Ancestry. I decided to investigate grand parents that I had virtually no knowledge off. One branch of my family were from the Yeovil area and I discovered several generations of bootmakers which tied in with what my uncle told me that his front room used to be a cobbler shop. I have an ancient cobbler knife which is heirloom important to me will get thrown out when I pop my clogs.
Thanks for the video. Very interesting as usual.
Thanks for sharing! It's so cool how the records added to your family stories like that. Thanks for sharing your memories of your grandfather!
@@GenealCymru Every body in my family had green fingers except me. I did my part because I was under orders to pee on the onions whenever I visited the allotment.😁 Too much information?😅
Great video. I remember nearly everyone's grandparents in Morriston having some kind of hand built green house in thier garden, even during the early 80s 😁. As kids we'd visit from garden to garden eating fresh strawberries, tomatoes, gooseberries.. and also many of them had apple trees, so scrumping was an after school game we all looked forward to 😆.
I don't think that photo of your uncle Dai was taken at number 24 chemical rd.. the house is on the wrong side of him (pictured) to be facing the tin plate works behind him. The current number 24 is built on the actual chemical works side.. which is now a mixture of houses, and Football (soccer) Rugby fields. 👍
Thanks for sharing those memories. I'm totally saving this to my notes. My Grampie used to talk about going camping in the farmers' fields and digging up their potatoes to roast. One he and his buddies used burlap sacks as tents and woke up in the morning soaked with dew!
As for where the picture was taken. I'm gonna take a look at some maps. I'm inclined to believe it was at 24 Chemical Road, since that's what my Grampie labelled it with and he was there. But I appreciate you giving it some thought. Hopefully there's some good photographs of the area for that time that can help.