Recently in Research Category

WERE you on an Outward Bound course between 1941 and present day? If so, the organisation is keen for you to share your memories on its website. Obviously, I'd also love it if you share them on here too, either by emailing me at laura.davis@liverpool.com or by using the comments section below.

Here are a few words from Nick Barrett, chief executive of The Outward Bound Trust...

We want to place the different generations of Outward Bounders in the same "room" online and give them the chance to share their stories.

KATHY DONALDSON, a member of Liverpool and South West Lancashire Family History Society who is completing a 13-week placement at Liverpool Record Office, shares her tips for researching your family tree.

Add yours to the bottom and I'll include them in a future blog...

1. When starting to research your family tree it is important that you start with yourself.

2. Write down everything that you know, dates, surnames, maiden names and any relatives that you know of.

I HAVE just stumbled upon a great website created by the Liverpool History Society, where you can post questions about the city's heritage and readers are invited to respond with information/advice.

Recent topics covered include:

Boys sent to Canada in the 1920s from Liverpool children's homes

A teapot made in Liverpool that was uncovered after Hurricane Katrina

A request for photographs of Everton Brow

I'm keeping an updated list of useful resources, which I'll add this to.

THIS list is a work in progress that I'll keep adding to as time passes and I find other useful links. Each one links to a post containing more detail on each archive and a series of links.

HERE are some useful links for researching Liverpool's history:

National Museums Liverpool blog - behind-the-scenes access to NML's Merseyside venues written by curators, museum directors, volunteers and marketing staff.

Liverpool History Society - useful info on new local history books, anniversaries and access to the society's archive.

ONE of my New Year's resolutions is to scan the six boxes of old family photos that have been sitting in my parents' loft for the past 20 years and form a photographic family tree.

I'll keep you up to date with how I'm getting on - and ask for help with any mysteries I come across - as I go along. I would love to hear from you if you're in the middle of a similar project.

In the meantime, I thought the New Year is a good time to share some useful genealogy links. We ran a series on the subject in the Daily Post last year and it's still up-to-date and worth having a look at. It includes lots of good links to other sites.

CAN anybody help Valerie Stern of New Jersey, US, who had sent me an email about her great-grandfather, Henry Brown, chief steward for the Cunard Line c.1890-1901.

He served on Carmania, Caronia, Lusitania, and Mauretania, and his title in the 1891 Census of Bootle was "Superintendent Steward Club". Valerie is trying to find any record of what and where this club was (if it was a club at all).

She says she has written to the Merseyside Maritime Museum, the Sydney Jones Library at the
University of Liverpool and the Liverpool Record Office, all to no avail. Can anyone help her?

THERE are five miles of documents in Wirral's newly opened archives, covering local government, workhouses, schools, hospitals and the courts.

They are being houses in new premises at the Cheshire Lines building on Canning Street, Birkenhead, and include details about Cammell Laird shipbuilders, as well as photographs, maps, plans and local newspapers dating back to the 19th century. The oldest is a medieval title deed for Wallasey dating back to 1447.

Get further details by clicking here.

FROM today names of more than 13,000 military men from Liverpool killed in action during World War I are available online.

It will allow people to discover whether they had any relatives killed in the Great War without having to physically look through the thousands of names in the Hall of Remembrance at the Town Hall.