by Imogen Smith | May 15, 2020 | Coronavirus Lockdown
While responses to the Coronavirus Lockdown develop over the next few weeks, we want to record thoughts and actions in Bishopsteignton one day at a time. Please leave two or three sentences and any images you may have in the comments section below. Tomorrow we shall...
by Imogen Smith | May 10, 2020 | Coronavirus Lockdown
While responses to the Coronavirus Lockdown develop over the next few weeks, we want to record thoughts and actions in Bishopsteignton one day at a time. Please leave two or three sentences and any images you may have in the comments section below. Tomorrow we shall...
by Imogen Smith | Apr 24, 2020 | Research, At Home with Your Archive
Once you have worked on sorting and preserving your family’s archive documents as well as expanding on their stories with some family history research, it can be very useful and a lot of fun to research the history of your house. This week is a little bit...
by Imogen Smith | Apr 17, 2020 | Research, At Home with Your Archive
Now that you have sorted your family archive and know what you have, as well as labelled and stored your records, it is time to use your records to begin expanding upon and tying together the stories in your family archive! Much like in Part 1 of this...
by Imogen Smith | Apr 10, 2020 | Research, At Home with Your Archive
Last week we established the importance of treasuring our family archives, and the value of doing so during this period of Lockdown. We also went through some tips on the best way to begin sorting through your archives at home, how to choose what to keep and...
by Imogen Smith | Apr 3, 2020 | Research, At Home with Your Archive
Some of us probably have excellently organised photo albums, scrap books and journals that resemble the most up to date of archive strong-rooms. However, many of us still have stacks of boxes hidden in the attic gathering dust, waiting to be re-discovered and...
