vivdunstan

Pleased this afternoon to manage a couple of things on my to do list for the week. I blogged my way through them. Both family history hunts. First finding my granddad and his siblings in Catholic baptism registers for Leeds, Yorkshire. And secondly, using communion rolls to narrow down when my maternal ancestors moved to Melrose, Scotland. Happy with that burst of genealogical productivity.

Delighted to find Catholic baptisms for siblings of my granddad in Leeds. Though can't see granddad - the records are often very faint, so he may be there but not indexed. Thanks to FindMyPast for these records. I didn't realise until just a few years ago but granddad and his siblings were brought up initially as Catholic, their Dublin-born mum's faith. Sadly she died young in childbirth and there was a huge family split between the children and their dad. So it made tracing the Irish family tree extremely hard. But I managed it. And proved it by DNA testing with Irish cousins. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/new/leeds-roman-catholic-bmds-ripon-gazette