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This page outlines the aim and contents of the Events section.

Life is a succession of events and no life is independent of any other, our lives are mostly shared experiences.

From growing up, birthdays, education, moving home, partners, holidays and raising children the sequence is a common thread while it varies from person to person. For everyone the main milestones are the same and many are shared jointly with others.

Life events in family history?

While we can instantly recall many of our own special moments, and those we'd rather forget, what do we know of previous generations?. The key insight to this are photographs. We have only one photograph earlier than 1900 and informal photographs earlier than 1920 are rare. .

So don't know very much about personal events prior to the 20thC since there is little evidence or stories to tell. We are then largely dependent on public records to support an individual's life event timeline.

What kind of event?

In some cases we can interpret the record but for the majority of individuals and partners the pages of the Events section will be formed from material recorded within the last 100 years.

The scope of events is potentially large and as we have seen - we are dependent on material to tell the story. Therefore the main events that we will primarily cover are outline below:

HINT: click on any right hand panel below to obtain a listing of events by that category [ OR use the Events Search tab in the the menu on the right hand side]