Some old and not so old online sources

[Pam Downes]

For want of a better thread title. :)
When I first began this genealogy lark and first began to use the computer for anything other than playing solitaire :D , one of my favourite things to do was to browse Genuki.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/
I'd start off on one page relevant to what I was looking for, but within about a dozen pages I was already way off track, following different links, and had completely forgotten what I was supposed to be doing.
I am still easily led astray (so to speak!) with the result that I've just re-found
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
and, again by following links within the site, I found
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.asp?pubid=739
Who would have thought that cookery writers of years ago would have specified spring water in their recipes?
Enjoy. Or should I say 'click if you dare' ? :)
Pam

[AnnB]

Hello Pam

I've had the British History site 'bookmarked' for ages, but I almost daren't go there as I get totally absorbed :o

Another site which leads me astray (you aren't alone ;) ) is the London Gazette at http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/index.asp?webType=0 which, of course, isn't confined to London as its title suggests :)

Best wishes
Ann

[Pam Downes]

Hello Pam

I've had the British History site 'bookmarked' for ages, but I almost daren't go there as I get totally absorbed :o

Another site which leads me astray (you aren't alone ;) ) is the London Gazette at http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/index.asp?webType=0 which, of course, isn't confined to London as its title suggests :)

Best wishes
AnnOh crumbs - 798 hits for 'my' surname on the Gazette site! Time to send for Kim and Aggie. :D
Pam

(For non-UK people the reference to Kim and Aggie is because they present a TV show called 'How clean is your house' in which they go into people's homes - though more like hovels! - and do a massive clean-up of literally years of accumulated grime and rubbish.)

[Pam Downes]

Oh crumbs - 798 hits for 'my' surname on the Gazette site! Time to send for Kim and Aggie. :D
Pam And I know I shouldn't have done it. First entry, then clicked on to other random pages in the same edition. Got 'Notifiable animal diseases' statistics and car parking charges in Dover (10p an hour in 1979).

(Takes firm grip of scruff of the neck and resolutely heads back to research which has to be done if I want to 'publish' the family history at auntie's golden wedding anniversary at the beginning of October. :D)

Pam

[busyglen]

What have you done Ann! I clicked on the London Gazette site, put in Edward Jones, and of course came up with `loads' of hits just for a years search!! Very interesting reading, and so far nothing to do with mine, but I `may' stick it out, especially as I found an entry for an Edward Jones whose occupation was a Tailor. Not mine of course, but who knows?

And Pam.....you set me off as well.....I don't know where to go first, although I had come across this before, but had forgotten it. Have bookmarked it now.

Glenys

[AnnB]

Ooops :o

Sorry Glenys! I did put in Edward Jones myself some time back, but when I saw the number of refs (not surprising really) I beat a retreat ;)

And Pam - I didn't mean to take you away from the more important things in life....... :D

Best wishes
Ann

[GeoffD]

Another good time waster, if you have an Ancestry subscription, is the newly released UK phone book scans.