It is early in the morning as I write this last post before we fly out of London tonight, via Singapore, Sydney and then Brisbane. The sun is just coming up over the city and the sky, unlike yesterday which … Continue reading →
I will be writing more about this in a blog post for GSQ on Monday week, but we spent most of yesterday at the Discovering Your Ancestors Family History Show at Esher. I had received an email notice about this … Continue reading →
Most of you (well, except for that very young Robyn Dean) will remember the English tv show from years ago called On The Buses. Hopping on and off buses was what Kirby and I did on Thursday. We decided that … Continue reading →
As anyone who has watched Outlander will know, Jamie and Claire were married in a lovely little church. This is the old Glencorse kirk, now on a private estate. I had suspected that my great great grandfather and gg grandmother … Continue reading →
The walk from our arrival gate when we arrived at Edinburgh airport from Belfast to the car rental point was incredibly long. I wonder who does the design for airports as they are woefully inadequate across the world. If you … Continue reading →
I am writing this in Scotland (more in the next post) with absolutely woeful internet so I may not be able to put many photos in this post. I researched at PRONI on Thursday and Friday without any new breakthroughs. … Continue reading →
I am running behind time with each of these posts but we are up early, breakfasting and then hitting the road so writing is taking second place. Early on Thursday morning, we had to leave the apartment we had been … Continue reading →
Wednesday was the last day of the conference and Kirby and I were meant to both do the tour to the Ulster-American Folk Park, the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, then to Baronscourt, the home of the Duke of Abercorn, … Continue reading →
Yesterday was the first tour day that Kirby and I have done together and it was down to Dublin for the day. Conference delegates had the choice of researching at the National Library of Ireland and/or the National Archives of … Continue reading →
On Monday, Kirby took the tour to Derry/Londonderry which he thoroughly enjoyed (mainly because he did his own thing). The first place they visited was the First Derry Presbyterian Church and while others listened to a talk about the Church, … Continue reading →
