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Saturday 19 May 2012
Sat having my lunch I suddenly thought about this website and that I hadn’t done any updates for a very long time, so apologies. Work is the excuse, research work for clients which has taken many hours. Time spent at Archives and then at home using the internet resources available online and then writing up reports. I have been on a course with David Smith on Manorial Documents at Gloucestershire Archives which was very practical and very informative. Some of the old government of Tetbury and other towns across the country begins to make sense at last. When I get some time I hope to be able to look at some of the documents relating to the Manor of Tetbury [Elizabeth Janson already does this to some extent on her excellent website]. The best news really is my acceptance as an associate member of AGRA, the society that sets the standards for research professionals - not just anyone can get in! Next step, full membership.
Wednesday 4 April 2012
New LCRS webpages active, may undergo tweaking but can be accessed from link above.
Friday 23 March 2012
I have just taken the plunge and bought a new domain name.....what’s happening you cry...don’t panic. Tetbury Families is staying. This is a separate domain name to take away my business side from my hobby side. So, soon, where it says research services [as above] you will be directed to a different site instead of pages within this one. As all my stationary etc is linked graphically there will not be a great deal of difference to be honest but I hope to make the research pages simpler, more straight forward and more importantly I need to keep the two sides of my research apart.
I finally got the assignments on Nonconformism sent off yesterday, so I have a good knowledge of Tetbury Quakers and Congregationalists now!! I do aim to get some of the data gathered on here sometime. I also need to go and find out why the friends burial ground plans are not showing up properly. My next lot of assignments take me away from specifically Tetbury research, onto the topic of surnames which will be followed by migration - why our ancestors moved when they did, economic reasons, persecutions etc etc so that should be interesting.
On a final note, just in case you didn’t see it, there was finally a very good review in the Gloucestershire Echo/The Citizen weekend supplement on Tetbury & District through Time. Cotswold Essence [March/April edition, page 74] had a small review too and that one is available online, although the newspaper one isn’t sadly. You know where to go if you want to buy a signed copy. Tetbury through Time is now no longer in print and I have all remaining copies so once online and other retailers sell out it’s up to me! [actually saw a copy for sale on ebay that was just over £21 and from reviews of the retailer it would appear that they advertise stock for sale that they don’t have and hike the price up!]
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