Tracing the History of your House 🏠 The Building - Discover it's history 🧑🤝🧑 The People - Who lived there? 📖 The Stories 🏛️ Homes and Museums
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There’s more to this week’s Map Monday than meets the eye… 👀🗺️
This landscape was once home to a medieval settlement, traces of which can still be spotted on the map today.
Can you work out where we are? 👇
Would you buy a house with a dark secret? Does it even bother you? In the USA they have websites dedicated to discovering houses where people have died. Do we care?
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The U.S. census is invaluable for house history — but it doesn't always make things easy.
Addresses change. Names get misspelled. Enumeration districts change.
My new TraceMyHouse article looks at the challenges.
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Who actually came to the door and collected the information recorded in an old U.S. census?
Who were America's census enumerators — and what was the job really like?
My new article looks at the people behind the records.
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Who was the person who came to your door to collect the census?
My new Substack article looks at the UK Census Enumerator and the part they played in creating the records we use today.
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It's Census day. Earlier my new Substack article looks at the UK Census Enumerator and the part they played in creating the records we use today.
Now my blog “Finding an Address in the Census” useful if you’re trying to locate a particular house. tinyurl.com/4zda5du6. .
Who was the person who came to your door to collect the census?
My new Substack article looks at the UK Census Enumerator and how these people helped create the records we use today. tracemyh.substack.com/publis…
What stories are hidden within the walls of your house? 🏠 A single house can reveal the lives of people who never made it into the history books. Your house has a history. Let’s uncover it. tracemyhouse.com #HouseHistory #Genealogy #AHouseThroughTime
What stories are hidden within the walls of your house? 🏠
A single house can reveal the lives of people who never made it into the history books.
Your house has a history. Let’s uncover it. tracemyhouse.com
#HouseHistory #Genealogy
More Than Meets the Eye 👀
Some buildings aren't what they seem...
Painted façades, optical illusions and street art can fool the eye.
My latest Substack explores some fascinating examples.
tinyurl.com/y55j3atw
Every house has a story to tell. What about the history of your house? 🏠 Start here: tinyurl.com/2zyxk4db 🗺️
New: Reading the Landscape: tinyurl.com/4se2scwh
What do Marks & Spencer, Macy’s and Arnott’s have in common?
Their stories can be traced through something surprisingly ordinary: old street directories.
tracemyh.substack.com/p/755b…
#HouseHistory #Genealogy
🤖 Made with AI
A House Through Times is on this evening BBC2 21:00 and reaches the Victorian era and I think we meet some interesting occupants of Calton Hill
#AHouseThroughTime #HouseHistory
"Maison Bodega was designed in 1920 by architect Ernest Kennedy, and thankfully, much of its original character still remained beneath the layers.' uk.news.yahoo.com/watfords-l… via @@yahooNewsUK
A House Through Time review: Forget your kings and queens, history comes alive from the stories of ordinary people edinburghnews.scotsman.com/a…
Watching A House Through Time last night reminds me that every house has a story to tell.
What about the history of your house?
🏠 Start here: tinyurl.com/2zyxk4db
🗺️New: Reading the Landscape: tinyurl.com/4se2scwh
Every house has a story to tell.
Watching A House Through Time tonight?
What about the history of your house?
🏠 Start here: tinyurl.com/2zyxk4db
🗺️New: Reading the Landscape: tinyurl.com/4se2scwh
Soon BBC 2 21:00 A House Through Time. David Olusoga and his team research the history of a house in Edinburgh to tell the personal histories of it's occupants over a 250 year period. #AHouseThroughTime #househistory #tracemyhouse
