.....and Completely Culpin

After spending what feels like months on my Stadens, I have been able to connect a few families but only within the file itself and sadly not into my main file. But hey ho, I’m sure it will happen soon…

So I turn my attention now to the Culpins who remain in my ‘Strays’ file; and on the first person, Adelaide Culpin, I managed to link her and her small family to the main file straight away!

Result!

Onwards, while the feeling of success lasts....

More soon.

Strictly Staden

My current genealogy task is to sort out my “Strictly Staden“ file. This contains all the Staden names which I have gathered over the years but whose owners don’t belong in my main family file. Yet.

So far I have sorted into the Southampton branch and the Dorset/Devon branch; I'm now working on the first Derbyshire branch because there are an awful lot of them around near Hartington and the like.

I’m now halfway through “Derbyshire1“ and luckily it’s one family. Goodness only knows what’s going to happen with the rest!

More soon.

RANDOMNESS

Nothing really about genealogy in this post except, perhaps, a small touch of Norwegian Royal Family history.......

I've been watching a film on the BBC iPlayer called "The King's Choice" about King Haakon of Norway and what happened when the Nazis invaded in 1940.  They were not, of course, the only family affected and, indeed, their royal cousins around Europe undoubtedly had similar problems; but I'd never really thought about it before.  For the record, I am no ardent Royalist.

I've read about how the various Royal families escaped to the UK or the USA as the Nazis made their way across Europe but it was always reported in a single sentence.  This film showed the process  involved and the decisions which had to be made.  It's a responsibility most fortunately denied to me but it was a most moving and tense film.

More soon.

Mind the gap?

One of my friends has just politely reminded me of the large gap since I last posted on here, so here I am, somewhat embarrassed, and wondering what to ramble on about today.

During the last few months I’ve been working on a number of different trees on the website and I’m currently engaged in the Langford branch which has had to be completely rewritten for the last 200 years (by which I mean 200 years going backwards). The 1700s and 1600s being quite wrong, my cousin and I discovered, so he did the legwork and I checked some of it and now we have both redirected that part of our shared tree. So having had to take out a number of downward branches I’m now re-entering some of them and finding out all sorts of new things!

But who knows? I may well get distracted and go back to the Culpins which are always at the back of my mind and certainly having had coffee this morning wth a friend and fellow Culpin researcher I am already thinking I wonder what to do next with them.

Onwards then and I will do my best to be back son!