2024 October

31 October 2024:- Total 51,014 including living.  Still on the trail of a mystery Dowling in Philadelphia... and no closer.

30 October 2024:- Total 51,005 including living.  In Philadelphia today on the trail of a Dowling middle name.  Have lots of gardening to do tomorrow.

29 October 2024:- Total 50,985 including living.  Still on the Berkshire puzzle.  Lots of hunting and no finding.

28 October 2024:- Total 50,983 including living.  Slow day with Berkshire Dowlings in early 1800s, slow because two families can easily be mistaken for each other.  Some sources added for existing people.

27 October 2024:- Total 50,980 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  A few sources for existing people in Hillingdon, London.

26 October 2024:- Total 50,979 including living. A little more in Berkshire and then a look-a-like family (same pattern of names) in nearby Hillingdon, ended with a merge and a good sort-out.

25 October 2024:- Total 50,976 including living. A new thread in Berkshire today despite time sitting in traffic collecting my nice sister from Heathrow. 

24 October 2024:- Total 50,967 including living.  What do you do in a One-Name Study when you come across a nasty villain?  Not a cheeky mischievous rogue but a spiteful vicious type?  I include the individual; as I have done again today... with the family tree.  But this one's still living so won't show up online despite being all over the media, which may protect the person's family for many years.

23 October 2024:- Total 50,934 including living.  Back on Dowlings add Dowlings in Yorkshire and then merged the parents with a Raheen, Laois family... good work.

22 October 2024:- Total 50,923 including living. Sent friend a report on her Chalmers line, she was ecstatic so I am pleased, it was a pleasure.

20 October 2024:- Total 50,923 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. Still working on a Chalmers line for a friend.  There are such gaps in records, Australia even destroyed all their census returns, but grateful for what is there. 

18 October 2024:- Total 50,923 including living. Back home.  Got a call to help a very good friend in Australia with their non-Dowling tree.  That'll  take some time.

14 October 2024:- Total 50,923 including living. Off to my sister's for a week.  Living family is more important.

13 October 2024:- Total 50,923 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. Just a few additions on my mother's side of the family.

12 October 2024:- Total 50,920 including living. Some odd-lot of source additions all over Ireland and England with a few refurbished sources.  Tidied up some large format documents in my office with big A3 binders.  Busy with lots of other stuff over the next week, so I may run silent.

11 October 2024:- Total 50,895 including living. Some Portlaoise, Laois baptisms today looking for a connection to Yorkshire.  Lots of gardening.

10 October 2024:- Total 50,876 including living. Added another Irish family, of Judith Dowling, in Yorkshire.  Refurbished some old 1911 census sources.

9 October 2024:- Total 50,860 including living. Found the Birmingham Dowlings' marriage in Cavan but not their pre-1825 births in Dublin.  Its a shame just how records disappear before that time in Ireland.  Added a considerable number of sources for the line and am now moving on.

8 October 2024:- Total 50,849 including living.  Birmingham Dowlings today with lots of sources, a connection to Dublin and, unusually, County Cavan.

7 October 2024:- Total 50,826 including living.  Mixed day found a Mountrath Dowling in this Yorkshire work, so there appears to be a pocket of Laois families who went to Bradford.  Much in need of more exploring.  A few refurbished sources and a marriage certificate added to William Dowling in Birmingham.

6 October 2024:- Total 50,797 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up.  Some Yorkshire Dowlings added... one born, apparently, in Maryborough in Laois which was exciting... then he disappears in the records!

5 October 2024:- Total 50,788 including living.  Mostly gardening today as rain expected.  Added a Yorkshire census, birth and marriage.

4 October 2024:- Total 50,780 including living.  A number of Dowlings from Ireland but living in Yorkshire in the 1841/51 censuses.  Some connected, more to come.

3 October 2024:- Total 50,750 including living.  Some living people added to the database (won't show online).  Added a marriage certificate for a Yorkshire Dowling connected to Laois... still working on it.  Mostly on a trip out to Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, looking at the trees and dahlias.  Nice day.

2 October 2024:- Total 50,744 including living.  Some Dowlings added from East London / Essex... don't know where they lead yet.  Refurbished some old sources.

1 October 2024:- Total 50,734 including living.  Monthly Double Back Up.  Mostly sources for existing people today with just a few additions while reviewing and old entry and adding the 1921 census.

30 September 2024:- Total 50,731 including living.  Manchester Dowling's today a family and ancestors added with some more to go.  Again a possible link to Ireland although it is contradicted on different censuses.