Desperately Seeking Sacky

Anyone know who 'Sacky' Hounslow of Wing, as featured in these photographs from the 1940s, was? Enquiring minds want to know!

http://apps1.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms2005/photolibrary/photoDetail.aspx?id=21846

http://apps1.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms2005/photolibrary/photoDetail.aspx?id=21844

Australian newspapers

The National Library of Australia has begun digitizing their old newspapers and making them available online - and there's nothing I like more than new online databases to explore! So far it's just their initial beta release, but I've struck gold already on the Wing front. If you are connected to the HOUNSLOW or MOORING families there's a very nice human interest story regarding the repayment of a debt in The Courier from Hobart in 1854 - searching for Wing plus Hounslow should bring it up.

The optical character recognition is a little dodgy at this stage. Promisingly, they have a "Help Fix This Text" feature, so I have fixed up the glitches in that Wing story.

I'll be keeping an eye on this to see what more Wing stories might come out of the woodwork as the project is rolled out. Check it out here.

HOUNSLOW and DIMMOCK

I'm currently looking at the HOUNSLOW and DIMMOCK families to see what I can see to help out a couple of researchers who have contacted me. If you have connections to these families, now might be a good time to email me?

And apologies in advance if I'm a bit slow in responding over the next couple of weeks - I'm expecting to be very busy at work including being away on a conference for a few days.

1841 census updates

I have been able to transcribe the previously missing pages from the 1841 census, now to check them and convert the file to html....so looking good for the December update! Anyone out there with COLLYER, CUTLER, HOUNSLOW, PEASE or RANDALL ancestors should be pleased, there's more than one household of each of those surnames in there.

By the way, please feel free to post comments to the blog. I don't bite!