Summary of my genealogy blogs

​​SPECIAL DAYS 

​St Pirans Day 
Why have Mothers Day ? 
When is a bank holiday not a bank holiday ?
Put your clocks forward one hour tonight
Why April Fool ?
Why does the tax year begin when it does ?

Christmas Day : 
Would you get married at Christmas
Breaking News : They cancelled Christmas
Why is Christmas Day so close to New Year's Day ?
The Christmas Truce on No Man's Land 

 REMEMBERING MY LIFE

Who do you think you are ?
The future for the genealogist is DNA
The revolution of the 60's
Remembering TV 1964
In my Life
Lords, my memories 1965 - 1976
​Back to the Future 2050

St Albans Lawn Tennis Club : 
the early years (1)
the WAG's take over (2)
and so to the end of grass (3)
up to my stepping down (4)

STRANGE TAXES

Playing cards
The hat tax
The wallpaper tax
A beard tax
Duty on hair powder
The fireplace tax

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

The making of a lithographic print
On the scent
​Puppet on a string

POSTCARD RESEARCH

Every postcard tells a story
​A sad tale of scarlet fever
A visit to an antiques fair
​The British Postcard
The Pensioner and the Farm Girl
The Poem and the Spinster
The Town Crier and the Lunatic​

QUIRKY TALES 

A genealogist ahead of her time
Doing her wifely duties
​Unusual occupations
​The old lady and her tortoise
​Putting our ancestors lives into context
How can you appear on the same census twice ?
​The Census (a poem)

CHURCHES & GRAVEYARDS

Monuments & gravestones
I wish to admit I am a coimetrophiliac
St Peter's church & graveyard, St Albans
St Leonard's Church & graveyard, Sandridge
St Helen's Church & graveyard, Wheathamstead
Hatfield Road graveyard, St Albans
St Peter's Church, London Colney
​An engineer who changed the world
The tombstone (a poem)

ST ALBANS 

Alban, the first English martyr
​The second battle of St Albans