2024 December

29 December 2024:- Total 51,272 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  Mostly tidying Sources after yesterday's work.

28 December 2024:- Total 51,268 including living. A good day joining and merging the London Dowlings to Chippenham in Wiltshire.  Refurbished some sources on the way.

27 December 2024:- Total 51,258 including living. Some serious unravelling of a London family.  With a bit of luck I may identify a number of isolated Dowlings in censuses with this branch.

26 December 2024:- Total 51,243 including living. A little refurbishment of sources for London Dowlings.

24 December 2024:- Total 51,242 including living.  So busy at present with Christmas!  Some refurbishing sources and one nice merge (where, after careful consideration, I merge two separate person entries in my database into one).  This is a great thing for clarity but takes me a good while to be sure. Especially difficult as James Arthur Dowling and James Leonard Dowling appeared distinctly different people for a long time - there is a story why he chose his civil registration name over his baptism name and, I guess, I'll never know what it is!  Merry Christmas All - no genealogy tomorrow!

22 December 2024:- Total 51,234 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up.

20 December 2024:- Total 51,233 including living.  More of the same... just tidying before I leave the branch.

19 December 2024:- Total 51,221 including living.  More on the Dowling Cottrells of Cork but may call a halt for the time being on this line which has hit the proverbial brick wall.

17 December 2024:- Total 51,213 including living.  More on these Dowling Cottrells in Cork.  I can't quite get back to the origin of the first name.

16 December 2024:- Total 51,207 including living.  Eyes still sore but added a Dowling (as a first name) from Cork, will probably merge this line with existing people in the next few days. 

15 December 2024:- Total 51,195 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up. Eyes blurred and sore.

11 December 2024:- Total 51,195 including living.  Managed some Hertfordshire Dowlings.  What a busy time.  Have an operation on my eyes due... opening up my blocked tear-ducts... not looking forward to that!  May be off-line for a while.

8 December 2024:- Total 51,188 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up. Busy this week with everything other than genealogy!

3 December 2024:- Total 51,188 including living. A New York census marriage... the a nice phone call from a cousin talking positively about the website and updating me on his family news.  Added a Hertfordshire family as a result which need some more work over the weeks.

2 December 2024:- Total 51,173 including living. Some New York census entries.

1 December 2024:- Total 51,169 including living. Monthly Double Back Up.  Checking out database against email received for a New York family.  I think they are already there... awaiting reply..

29 November 2024:- Total 51,169 including living. A few census entries for New Mexico.  Busy time of year.  Lots of queries and work to do, I am lucky really!