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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

4 months

#SaveOurWills Petition to UK Parliament (shown below)! Please help us #SaveOurWills ! This petition will go live once signed by 5 supporters. You need to be a British citizen or UK resident. Sign now, don't delay:

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Do you collect your ancestors' signatures? I have heard that somone created a family tree of them. I often wonder how far back I might be able to get in an unbroken chain... although I may have to settle with 'the mark of' my ancestors instead! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

So you want to know why the death duty registers are so important? This is one reason why... so many notes trying to trace someone... ‘supposed to have gone to America’ and ‘deserted wife and children who have been in workhouse’ are just two of the many annotations. #AncestryHour

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

Hold on a moment… You want to *DESTROY* the originals, but have been in your Time Machine to check that the digital files will be preserved “for centuries” and that the technology will still allow them to be accessible? #FamilyHistory #Genealogy 🤦🏻‍♂️

Ministry of Justice

@MoJGovUK

5 months

Are you a history or ancestry enthusiast? We’re proposing to digitise millions of wills dating back to the 1800s, making them easier for the public to access. Take a fascinating look into our storage archive in Birmingham and have your say:

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

5 months

I may have treated myself to an early Christmas present… it was a pain carrying these back on the bus and trains, but I made it. 🏋️ One of the archive staff said: “You do realise your book buying is the only thing saving us from bankruptcy?” #LocalStudies #FamilyHistory

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

9 months

Never give up hope of finding photographs of your ancestors! These are my 4xGGrandparents, Alfred Harris and Patience Parker in 1926, shortly after their 61st wedding anniversary. I have never seen a photo of them before today! @photogenealogy #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OldPhotos

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

I helped my mum prepare for a family history event. It included a mini-case study looking at my great-grandfather who was a Barnardo’s Boy and British Home Child and the sources available for research. This is him in 1926 just before he was sent to Canada. #AncestryHour

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

8 months

This is definitely not something I do but I’ve purchased a group of photos that are all the same family (not my family) and are all named and some are dated. I would like to blame @photogenealogy , but it’s entirely all my own fault! 🙈 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OldPhotographs

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

We’re now at over 5,000 signatures… over half way to a Government response. Let’s keep going! #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

Thank you everyone! We’ve breached the 10k threshold to elicit a response from the Government, but we need to keep advancing. Something is only out of reach or impossible if we believe it to be so. Let’s set our sights on the 100k prize and claim it!

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 months

Catriona Crowe, who worked at The National Archives of Ireland, said the destruction of the Public Record Office was: “…an act of cultural vandalism… For a long time people didn’t realise what we had lost.” She speaks of digitisation: #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 months

I can only imagine that the church official misplaced his vestry minute book… and when he eventually found it (having started another book) recorded these words. 🤷🏻‍♂️ The rest of the pages were blank. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Archives

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

Go, go, go… SIGN NOW, don’t delay! If you want to see original wills preserved and not destroyed, then sign my petition now! #SaveOurWills

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years

Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current...

petition.parliament.uk

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

In other NEWS... 🗞️...look who was accepted as a full AGRA Member today! Wahoo! 🥳 Also... #SaveOurWills 1. Respond to the consultation 2. Sign the petition

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

I love opening boxes filled with neat bundles of documents tied up with pretty pink ribbons. In this case I was locating an original will, but sometimes you don't know what you might find! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 months

NEWS 🗞️ on #SaveOurWills ! I have been informed today that “the Government received over 1200 responses largely drawn from the historian, archive, and family history sectors.” Thank you everyone for the time you took to respond! I think @MoJGovUK will be busy! #FamilyHistory

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

We’ve hit 4000 signatures and counting… let’s keep going! Almost half way to 10,000 and it’s all downhill from there, right? #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

I came across this book in The National Archives' bookshop that - published at the end of last month. Teach Yourself Palaeography: A Guide for Genealogists and Local Historians by Claire Jarvis. Might be one for the #ChristmasList as it covers Latin. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

When you open a box of records spanning two centuries... not knowing what you're going to find! So much more in here than in the catalogue description... always worth checking! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

We have now reached 8,000 signatures and counting! We are now the 60th most popular open petition and have reached yet another of the remaining constituencies! Please continue to share and sign. Thank you so much! #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Don't you just love the beauty of old documents? This is a deed of covenant dated 24th October 1689. #Genealogy #FamilyTree

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

6 months

Had to come and see the #StPancras #ChristmasTree . Definitely need something like this for my #Genealogy collection. 📚

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

Pleased to say that I have just received a distinction for the first Advanced @PharosTutors course I have taken; Researching Online for Advanced Genealogists. Awaiting results of the second course, submitted yesterday. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Monday TOP-TIP! If you're looking at military records, the image quality on FindMyPast is far superior to Ancestry. I also find the search at FindMyPast easier to use. Don't forget the indexes to the pension ledgers and index cards or Ancestry though! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

We can make it to 8,000 or more before midnight, can’t we? YES! Let’s do this… who haven’t you invited to sign the petition? Please also respond to the consultation and write to your MP. #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

You never get the same experience with online research as having the actual document in front of you. It can be important to interrogate the document and not just the online image. You can learn so more about the document. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

6 months

Some good news from the GRO re: Digital Images. Deaths are now available to 1957 (previously went up to 1887). #GRO #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #LocalHistory @AGRAGenealogy @APGgenealogy @RegQualGenes @BALHNews @OnePlaceStudies @SocGenealogists @OneNameStudies

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

Have you ever come across memorial cards? Here's one from 1870 that includes additional information recorded in a journal... "Mr Richard West was a very handsome looking person..." @SocGenealogists also has a database of their collection. Check it out:

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

I have just published a blog post on @MoJGovUK 's proposals to destroy original wills (link below). Included is a list of three actions that I encourage you all to take to help #SaveOurWills . I welcome your feedback, please add your comments on the webpage.

Justice for Wills and Probate Documents:

On 15th December 2023, the Ministry of Justice published a consultation, proposing to destroy original wills and probate documents following digitisation and after 25 years. This post includes some…

holtsfamilyhistoryresearch.co.uk

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

NEWS JUST IN! 🗞️ #SaveOurWills In a 22 Jan letter, Mike Freer, MoJ JusticeMinister, states: "...we have already received several hundred responses, largely drawn from the historian, archive and family history sectors..." Have you responded? Deadline: 23 Feb

Storage and retention of original will documents

A consultation on storage and retention of wills and other documents submitted in applications for probate.

www.gov.uk

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Despite the tube strikes I have eventually made it to the last leg of my journey. @UkNatArchives #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

Remember this video from @MoJGovUK trying to disguise a *bad* thing with shelves of lovely documents? Now you're not quite so outraged by the proposals to destroy almost everything you see... watch again. What do you notice? Here are a couple, but add your own. #SaveOurWills /1🧵

Ministry of Justice

@MoJGovUK

5 months

Are you a history or ancestry enthusiast? We’re proposing to digitise millions of wills dating back to the 1800s, making them easier for the public to access. Take a fascinating look into our storage archive in Birmingham and have your say:

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

Some good reasons from The Guardian as to why original wills should not be destroyed after 25 years by @MoJGovUK after digitisation, as is proposed. Please make sure you respond to the consultation. Details below.👇🏻1/2

The Guardian view on digital-only archives: material items still matter to historians | Editorial

Editorial: The Ministry of Justice is planning to scan tens of millions of wills and destroy most of the originals. Does it realise what will be lost?

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

Just landed on my mat from @familytreemaguk ! I know Helen Tovey is interested in your comments for the next edition. Email helen.t @familytree .co.uk by 21st Jan. #SaveOurWills #FamilyHistory #Genealogy @AGRAGenealogy @RegQualGenes @ASGRAGenealogy @SocGenealogists @FederationFHS

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

NEWS JUST IN: 🗞️ @MoJGovUK has misrepresented the annual spend to store and preserve wills by ~£1m per year! Interestingly, there were no meeting minutes held relating to issuing the consultation. It didn’t come out of thin air! 🧐 #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

5 months

BREAKING NEWS... The government proposes a better system for access to wills, including original wills and associated documents. I submitted a test FOI request earlier this year for a copy of an original will, which was not available via the online service. 1/

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

5 months

Some lovely news this evening! I received my results for @PharosTutors ’ Manorial Records Advanced Course, achieving a Distinction at 94% - even better than I had imagined. 😅 Caroline’s Zooms were great and helped showcase the records. Thank you! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

6 months

Why have I not come across this book before? It’s full of interesting information, but only a few lines about a particular topic I’ve been looking into. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

I have been quieter on social media recently, so I thought I would show you some of the records I have been looking at. These are bundles of discharges from the Fleet Prison. Who said you didn't get your hands dirty doing archival research? #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #FleetPrison

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Did you have an ancestor who was a merchant seamen? These are bundles of crew lists and agreements, very helpful for tracing a seaman's movements and the ships they served on. These records are found in two UK archives, as well as one in Canada. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Who's that baby with his great-grandfather? Oh, that would be me! If only he knew that little baby would end up answering questions about who his paternal family were. I wonder what he would have made of it? #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Researching criminal ancestors? This volume is a calendar of indictments at the Central Criminal Court, formerly the Old Bailey. Make sure you also visit this great online database: #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

Pick up your copy of @familytreemaguk to learn all about what you can do to help #SaveOurWills from destruction. @MoJGovUK propose destroying then post digitisation and after a period of 25 years has passed since they are proved. #History #Heritage /1

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

This is why we need to #SaveOurWills ! @MoJGovUK plan on destroying them after digitising them. Digitisation is great for access, but it does not preserve the original documents. Please sign and share the petition:

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years

Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current...

petition.parliament.uk

Public Libraries News

@publiclibnews

4 months

“A cyber-attack on the British Library has shown how vulnerable digital archives are. It has reinforced the value of physical books and librarians”

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Have you ever used the Hearth Tax records in your #FamilyHistory research? This is an exemption certificate from the early 1670's with 200 names... plus all those parish officials. #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

4 months

'Destroying historical wills is insane and bananas!' @SocGenealogists @AGRAGenealogy @BALHNews @RegQualGenes @UkNatArchives @ARAUK_IE

Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts

Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Does anyone remember a kitchen like this? This is well before my time... but do you know what the device clampted to the worktop might be? I think I have a good idea having seen something similar before! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

When genealogists talk about there being 'gaps in the historical record'. Here there are literally gaps in the document, but not all documents are lucky enough to have survived, even in partial form! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

Until recent years I had never seen a photo of my 2x great-grandparents, George Henry Holt (1873-1950) and Alice Butterfield (1878-1960). I think my grandad looks a lot like his own grandad. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #FamilyPhotos

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Last week I met with my 1C1R and his sister-in-law. I now have more photos of my 3x g.gmother and one of my 3x g.gfather! One of the family photos dated c.1895 includes my 2x g.gfather as a young boy. #AncestryHour

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

This is what we mean when we say ‘the materiality’ of physical documents. Simply beautiful! So much will be lost if MoJ destroy post-1858 wills! Sign the petition: #SaveOurWills Respond to the consultation; write to your MP.

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years

Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current...

petition.parliament.uk

Mish J Holman

@mishjholman

3 months

Look at this seal from yesterday's batch of wills. I love it. #Genealogy #Ancestry

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

26 days

Quick visit to the parish church of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. It was really interesting to see this large wooden board. “A TABLE of KINDRED and AFFINITY wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our Laws to marry together.” @AGRAGenealogy #FamilyHistory

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Something you don't see too often: Certificate of Registry of Death and Coroner's Order for Burial. Both examples were to be given to the undertaker or person in charge of the funeral. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

5 months

With the help of my great aunt, who has given me her old NHS Number, I believe I’ve been able to locate where my grandfather is in the 1939 Register. Now to make a request to open a closed record and see if I’m correct! @findmypast @AGRAGenealogy #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

Roger Bartlett, former barrister and part-time judge who dealt with wills claims writes: "I would suggest that it is not only historians and genealogists who should oppose this misconceived proposal. Lawyers should also be concerned." #SaveOurWills

Destroying paper wills is guaranteeing problems down the line | Letters

Letters: Mistakes and disputes will be inevitable if scanned digital copies are used instead, writes former judge Roger Bartlett. Plus letters from Andy Clarke and Dr Keith Flett

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

7 months

Woke up to a message on @AncestryUK from a DNA match to my mum and great-aunt who replied to my message that was sent 4 years and 2 months ago. I now know that we both descend from my 3xGreat Grandparents who came from Northumberland. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #DNA

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 months

NEWS JUST IN: 🗞️ My appeal against the ICO’s Decision Notice was paused while the Tribunal considered the ICO’s application to strike out my case. The Judge decided: “The Commissioner’s application to strike out the appeal… is refused.” #SaveOurWills /1

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Here's another reason why churchwardens' accounts are essential sources! This volume included a list of the settlement certificates that the churchwardens held. None of the originals survive for this parish, so this record is even more important! #FamilyHistory @Howto_History

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

Locating signatures is one way that can help provide new avenues for research. For example, they can help separate multiple people with the same name or verify you have found a record relating to the same person. How have they helped you? #Signatures #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 months

NEWS: 🗞️ #SaveOurWills The Petitions Committee have been contacted (see link) and inaccuracies in the Ministry of Justice's response have been outlined. The MoJ performed a cut-and-paste exercise, but failed to check the response was current and accurate.

Wills Petition Response

The Ministry of Justice responded to the Petition to #SaveOurWills on 1st March 2024. The response contains inaccuracies, which are outlined here in an email sent to the Petitions Committee, which …

holtsfamilyhistoryresearch.co.uk

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

10 months

I viewed an absolutely fascinating collection of school records yesterday, still held by the school! The first page of the earliest admission register listed two of my 3x g-gfathers. A collection of documents from the late 1920s-40s showed how WWII affected the school. #Genealogy

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@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Who has blacksmiths in their family? I wonder who can guess what the item standing on the floor might be? This is in Garston Forge, which has now been relocated at the Chiltern Open Air Museum. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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2 years

Sometimes you get lucky and find a sketch-plan of the properties in the 1910 Finance Act field books. Here's a rather colourful plan from the Bledlow field book (IR 58/39387, Ref: 238). #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

Have you used historical newspapers in your #FamilyHistory research before? This was another book I noticed in the shop @UkNatArchives . What have you discovered about your #Ancestors in newspapers? #LocalHistory #Books4Genealogy

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1 year

It was a more modern celebration today as my daughter turned 10. Hopefully something she’ll remember in years to come. She likes purple dragons. I remember my great gran saying ‘oooo double figures’ as I approached my 10th birthday. I remember I got a camera. #AncestryHour

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1 year

What’s on your #Genealogy reading list this year? This book arrived in the post today after I tracked down a copy. I’m looking forward to getting stuck in, particularly with Chapter 3, Changes of Name. #AncestryHour

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

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2 months

Responses to @MoJGovUK consultation are in! In other news, we’ve coloured in the map! There are signatures from all 650 constituencies plus 37 other countries. Petition is still open and closes on 9th July 2024. We are waiting for responses. #SaveOurWills

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2 years

So the museum curator had left these workhouse account books for Wisbech, Cambridgeshire dating from 1701 on the desk. Looked very interesting and haven’t seen anything like them before. #AncestryHour

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1 year

Nothing like a distraction... Hello all of you! #Chirpty @Dave_Lifelines @digupancestors @MsFrugalone @PharosTutors @_30Genealogist @geneastories @GenealogyJude @David_Rigby63 @genealogyces87 @Whoamiftr @TheRootsGenie @WillsmanOneName @JoHarris0n @mishjholman @humblehist

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2 years

On my way to London for an @AGRAGenealogy meeting. Walking to the train station down the footpath beside the High Wycombe cemetery, just meters from some of my ancestors’ graves. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Some light reading (following the Barrister’s response for the MoJ) from the 1485 page tome on ‘Information Rights’ by leading authority Philip Coppel KC. Lo and behold, it mentions *original wills* as public records, and sets out how such records are subject to FOI. #Genealogy

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2 years

If you haven't used estate or family papers before then you're missing out! This is just one bundle from a wider collection that I viewed recently, it included records such as probate documents, extracts from manorial records, receipts and deeds. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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😲 I'm tagging @MoJGovUK so they can see this! I always wondered what those boxes of papers and parchments were that I regularly use in series PROB 10 at @UkNatArchives ! Now I know... they *are* wills of the non-famous! Please sign and help #SaveOurWills :

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years

Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current...

petition.parliament.uk

Mish J Holman

@mishjholman

3 months

@holtsfamilyhis1 @UkNatArchives @MoJGovUK Shock! Not famous jeweller from Westminster has will preserved in the National Archives.

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NEWS JUST IN: 🗞️ #SaveOurWills Petition Response Received: It has been lifted from letters sent by Mike Freer and Alex Chalk and reads as though views are still being sought. This is not good enough. The £4.5m figure is still being claimed as accurate.

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years

Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current...

petition.parliament.uk

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

So this happened at the end of last year. I can’t complain with a distinction and an average pass mark of 92%. If you’re thinking of taking a @PharosTutors course - then do it! Looking forward to chatting with my students on the Apprenticeship Records course later this week!

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2 years

30th September 1712: "Paid to a Woman in Labour to get her out of [the] Parish" 1 shilling. It was a real issue to have children born within the parish boundaries that would need financial support. There were a number of similar entries in this volume! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

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#SaveOurWills ! This isn't a will, it's a WWII service record from TNA. I questioned the quality and was told the only thing that could be done was to provide a transcript. Can you see why having original wills might be impotant? and

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Have you located any of your ancestors graves? I finally found my 3x great grandparents grave having overlooked it at a cemetery on two occassions. Notice the buttercups left by my niece and nephews. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

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We've just hit 9,000 signatures! Only 1,000 to go before we elicit a response from the Government. Let's keep going! Also... respond to the consultation! Details are here: #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 months

Read the full response from @ARAUK_IE to @MoJGovUK ’s proposals to destroy original probate records after digitisation. They make some very valid points! #SaveOurWills

Ministry of Justice proposals re storage of Wills — Archives & Records Association

This news item was first published on 22nd December. It is now updated to include information on ARA’s response to the consultation. The Ministry of Justice is running a consultation on their...

www.archives.org.uk

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

Look how close we are to 10k signatures! This is the first stage where we call the Government to action. Can we make it by the end of the day? Please give this a huge push! Share in all of your groups, with all your contacts, in any way you can think of to help #SaveOurWills .

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 months

In November, I'll be talking about National Registration and understanding the 1939 Register as part of a much wider set of records. The 1939 Register is only the tip of the iceberg... learn what records exists and how to access information. @AGRAGenealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Local newspapers are a great source of family history information. Many are available online as part of the British Newspaper Collection, but many can only be found at libraries and local archives. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

When you're researching a family and find that the youngest child was only a day old when the 1881 census was taken on 3rd April. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Census

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

1 year

Evening #AncestryHour ! I have recently left @UkNatArchives . I’ve been shut off from the rain and the outside world. I researched the early career of a Captain in the Merchant Navy, despite not knowing the ships he was on. Knowing the shipping company’s fleet was essential!

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Today, a wonderful lady located the death date of my ggg-grandfather in her grandfather’s diaries, left to her in his will. Her grandfather bought a diary for 3d on 6th May 1933 and wrote every day until he died in 1971, filling over 27 volumes. ‘Mr Ashby died [Witchell?]’

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

10 months

One of my favourite photographs of me and my great-grandmother, Peggy Doreen Batting née Ashby (1923-2004). She was saying something funny and tickling me at the same time. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Sometimes you have to take a moment to appreciate the beauty of the various records we handle. This design was on the front cover of a volume of vestry minutes. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Ancestry

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

6 months

Where were your 8 G-Grandparents from? High Wycombe High Wycombe High Wycombe Hammersmith Bledlow Ridge Jarrow Bledlow Ridge Bledlow Ridge You can see why I list Buckinghamshire research as one of my specialisms, right? 🤔 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Ancestry

Emma Jolly

@emmajolly

6 months

Canterbury Stoke Newington Bristol Stoke Newington Sedgley Sedgley Smethwick Sedgley This prompts questions on what is meant by “from” - something family historians wrangle with constantly. (1/2)

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Not always something you come across! Apart from knowing this is shorthand, it is far beyond my palaeographic skills! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #LocalHistory #Shorthand

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

There's only 80 signatures to go until we reach 10k! We are soooo close! If the number continues to rise, we might make it to 10k before midnight! #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

A lovely little Hearth Tax collection book for Aylesbury Hundred, Buckinghamshire c.1673-1676 (E179/244/15). @UkNatArchives #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

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The #SaveOurWills campagn has reached people worldwide. Thank you to signatories in Armenia: (1), Australia (43), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Canada (31), Cyprus (1), Denmark (2), Finland (1), France (29), Germany (6), Greece (1), Cont... 1/

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years

Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current...

petition.parliament.uk

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

2 years

Do you have any stories about seafaring ancestors? There's all sorts of information in ships logs. "Keep lookout for man overboard." I came across this in passing, but I wonder if he was ever found. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

As I’ve said before, this is why original wills are so important and why I’ve been pursuing MoJ re: access to an *original will* rather than the registered copy which I was sent (via. Iron Mountain/HMCTS). Don’t let them be destroyed - sign: #SaveOurWills

Petition: Do not allow original wills to be destroyed after 25 years

Please #SaveOurWills! The MoJ proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in perpetuity in line with current...

petition.parliament.uk

Mish J Holman

@mishjholman

3 months

@WandaWyporska @holtsfamilyhis1 Extra information included in the original will not found in the registered copy - this is why the originals are of such great importance. Prior to yesterday I never knew he had been in Charleston! #SaveOurWills

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

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Thank you for your support today with the #SaveOurWills campaign. Things are now on the up and we are no longer the 65th most popular petition, but the 63rd! We have also reached another constituency. Well done! Let's keep going... we can do this!

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

I'm looking forward to talking to the @bradfordfhs1 this evening on 'Apprenticeship Records: History and Sources with Case Study'. Enjoyed chatting to my @PharosTutors students on this topic this morning! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy @AGRAGenealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

7 months

😍 This is a baptism entry from the 16thC. I have never seem baptism entries for this period that are so detailed! #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

3 months

MORE NEWS JUST IN: 🗞️ #SaveOurWills I have requested an internal review of my FOI request. Some of you explained that a point made by MoJ amounted to effectively saying the public were ‘too stupid to understand something so complex’. Here's my request:

Information on Consultation: Storage and Retention of Original Will Documents - a Freedom of...

Please provide me with the following information: a) Breakdown of the estimated cost of £4.5 million per annum for preserving and storing probate records at the Probate Records Centre in Birmingham....

www.whatdotheyknow.com

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Richard Holt - Holt's Family History Research

@holtsfamilyhis1

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The National Probate Records Centre Re-Procurement project is planning to establish a new 10 year contract at a cost of £50m. The current contract of 25 years will expire on 27/7/24. This might be another reason for the embarrassingly awful wills consultation. 1/ #FamilyHistory

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