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Over on Twitter I recently spotted the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. It's a series of prompts designed to get people talking about their family history.
Much too often, so much hard work goes in to making discoveries and uncovering stories, only for those stories to then go hidden away, untold.
You only have to look around my so-called blog to realise I don't post much. Hopefully #52Ancestors will be the weekly push I need to do just that.
Week 1's prompt is Foundations, so I'd like to talk about how my interest in my family history all started.
Read more: 52 Ancestors: a year of talking about my family history
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This is a cross-post from my LinkedIn profile.
As Cancer Research UK (CRUK)'s shops start to reopen (365 of them yesterday alone!), it's brilliant seeing our staff, volunteers and communities coming back together. Being the one behind CRUK's Trading social media channels, I'm in a privileged position where I get to see what's going on in our shops across the country.
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Something weird has happened to my Twitter account.
Last night, out of the blue, the Twitter app just kicked me out saying my account had violated rules around automated behaviour and that I needed to verify my phone number again.
That's ok, I've done that before - albeit not under these circumstances - but this time it wouldn't be so easy.
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One of the most interesting photos in my The Mystery Photo Album is of this gentleman, mainly because he's very obviously in two of the photographs.
The helping hand with many of the photos in the album is that they are studio portraits, so most of them have the name of the photographer printed on them. Through trade directories you could, with a bit of work, narrow down the time frame in which the photo was taken.
In this case, that time frame can be narrowed down quite well.
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I've been given an old family photo album. It came from my great uncle and it's one of those really frustrating albums where none of the photos have names associated with them.
The spine of the poorly-looking album has torn in half, and a music box that was encased in the back is well beyond playing its creepy, tinkling tune, rattling about in the void.
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I mesh online and offline communities to enable peer-to-peer integration and globally e-enable holistic clouds.
That's my Twitter bio and, with a little thought, it kinda sums up what I do for a living. Here's how:
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This month I've mostly been getting excited about switching electricity provider.
Since moving into our house just over four years ago I've had, some may say, an unhealthy addiction to monitoring our energy usage. As we're an electricity-only property, that's pretty easy to do through taking meter readings and keeping a log in a spreadsheet. Yep, you heard me. I have a spreadsheet for monitoring electricity consumption.
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Having just registered for an Olympic pedometer challenge through work, I'm wondering whether or not I could take it a step further. All puns intended.
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This weekend I realised that I hadn't tweeted since mid-March, haven't actively posted to Google+ for almost a month and only really used Facebook to see what's going on and to look after the shop's page.
I don't really know what's caused this drift away from the world of online networks.
Hi, I'm Chris. I run the online shop for one of the UK's largest charities.