Ryedale Roots Apr 2024 Bilsdale

Birdsall – location and what records are available

         Manor of Birdsall – Tenants 3 October 1758

         Help sought on Allen at Terrington, Eskdaleside and Slingsby

         Let’s write a letter

         Granny’s letter from south east London during the blitz

         Wills recently transcribed

         Newspaper clippings for Birdsall

         Article on in-laws

         Table of Kindred and Affinity

         Extract from Birdsall Burials (available on the RFHG website)

         Will of Robert Jackson, Birdsall 1782

         From the 2023 short story competition – ‘Communications across the centuries and Miles’, ‘Two Prime Ministers and my family history’, and ‘Lost and Found’

         DNA Experiences

         Article on Our Calendar and Quarter Days

         Websites to try

         New resources available on the commercial websites

         Member talks: What is new at the Borthwick;

                  Posted in the past; Irish emigration to Britain

         Remembering the sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland in 1914

         Buckingham Palace

         What are War Diaries?

         Article on Grandma Snow

         Article on D-Day

         Larboard and Starboard – theories of origins

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