Kim Hunter - Genealogy & Local History

23/10/2024

25/07/2024

Not all heroes wear capes. 🦸🏼‍♀️Some of us use their skills to update missing citations on Wikipedia 🤓

24/07/2024

I love a marriage certificate. English and Welsh marriage certificates provide the father’s name and occupation for both bride and groom, and are a fantastic piece of evidence to connect the dots between generations. Even a blank space is a hint towards illegitimacy.

I think that’s why I feel so let down by Isaac Spooner, Vicar of Edgbaston in Warwickshire in the 1850s. For whatever reason, known only to him, he omitted the father’s details for most of the records he kept. Just why Isaac?! 😫

12/06/2024

I love this! Please make sure your old photos are all labelled on the back 🙏🏻

06/06/2024

Here’s a poem in commemoration of D-Day, which took place eighty years ago today.

It’s called ‘Queueing for an Ice Cream’.

04/06/2024

Gosh mis-transcriptions really brighten up my working day!

23/05/2024

I’ve just been tidying out my desk drawers, and amidst all of the chaos of hand drawn trees and random scribbled theories, I came across this dish, bubble wrapped within an inch of its life.

This is the one family heirloom we have with any age to it - it’s thought to be a gift received by my great great grandparents Harry and Mary Jane upon their marriage in 1912. I wonder if the person who gave it them imagined that it would still be in the family 112 years after their marriage.

I’m booking in work for June, so get in touch if there’s anything I can help with 😊

03/05/2024

Dirty, inky fingers - the sign of a long day’s work in an archives.

16/04/2024

You learn something new every day. This is the family tree (or pedigree) of a horse named Moss Trooper, that was born in 1839. I was indeed looking for this specific horse, but I wanted to know who its human owner was, and not its horse parents! 🐴

06/04/2024

On the way back from a very wet and muddy week in Cornwall, and have just settled down for a long journey home with a book about genealogy research methods. The contents probably look very dull to most of you, but I’m really looking forward to it!

28/03/2024

Two years ago today, I worked my last ever shift at the energy company I used to work for. Day in day out, I worked a job where I watched the clock constantly, bored and waiting to finish.

I had already started my Masters the year previously, but had told myself there it was for fun, and that was no pressure to do anything with it 🙈 However, when it came down to a choice between reapplying for a job that bored the hell out of me, or taking voluntary redundancy, it turns out that was just the push I needed.

Now instead of watching the clock, I need to set alarms to remember to set off to school to pick my 6-year-old up, as time passes in a flash when you’re doing something you love! And have to really try to keep myself off my computer in an evening because I’m so excited to get going with all of the tasks my lovely clients set me. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to do something I love day in day out.