Genealogy Webinar Marathon

MyHeritage and Legacy Family Tree Webinars are running their 4th annual 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon April 13-14, 2023.  The entire event is free, and you can pop in for a session or two, or stick around for the full 24 hours – it’s completely up to you. 

Sessions include :

• Solving Unknown Parentage Mysteries with MyHeritage DNA
• The Secret to Finding Your Ancestor's Stories 
• Genealogy A to Z : a Trivia Adventure
• Slow Down - Planning you Research
• To Have but No Longer to Hold : Divorce in Australia
• Australian Indexes online for Family History Research
• Different calendars in German Genealogy
• Unearthing Treasures in the Irish Registry of Deeds
• An Introduction to Investigative Genetic Genealogy
• Finding the Original Recordwhen the Idex is Unclear
• Elusive Ancestors : Never too Poor to Trace
  
• And more...

A Wedding in the News

During my binge on researching old newspapers, I recently came across a report on the wedding of my great aunt, Constance Green, to Cyril Webb in 1909.

The wedding was, but all accounts, quite a major local event in the small village where Constance's father was one of the major local landholders.

The amount of detail recorded in the local newspaper is astonishing.

There a complete list of the bridal party and a detailed description of the bride's and bridemaids' clothes.

Details of the service are included, even with the details of who had decorated the church for the occasion.

The article then goes on to cover the reception that followed the wedding at the bride's home, along with the details of the newlywed's departure for their honeymoon.

There is even a description of the bride's travelling clothes.

The festivities continued after the couple's departure with Constance's parents hosting about 60 people, including employees, the choir and church band along with family members, to a supper on the lawn behind their home.

Finally, there is the list of wedding presents.  Silver, dishes, photo frames, table cloths, the list goes on.  And on.  Every single gift the happy couple received is listed for all to see in the local paper, along with the name of the people who gave them.  Family, friends, neighbors.

Astonishing.  Now I just need to work out who all these people are and how many are related to the bride and groom.