#househistory — Public Fediverse posts

A fascinating thread from #HouseHistory to #FamilyHistory that’s tied up with the story of American #Abolitionism and the #UndergroundRailroad in New York. Now fighting for preservation of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...

In the East Village, Hiding in...

If you’re interested in the history / heritage of a place in #VictoriaAU - be it a house, street, town or suburb - be it your own or an ancestor’s - including who lived there! - check out @wragge ‘s new discovery thing https://slv.wraggelabs.com/myplace/ using the digitised resources of #StateLibraryVIC. #houseHistory #familyHistoryAU

Just to let you know, I’ve got several public talks coming up this spring, online and in-person, for #Glasgow850 including #HouseHistory #LocalHistory #Victorian #Glasgow #Census Full list on my website.

https://ailsaboyd.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/talks-for-glasgow850-this-spring/

Save the date! #AllAboutThatPlace is back! It starts Friday 27 September 2024. What are you hoping to learn? What would you like to see more of?

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies #StreetStudy #StreetStudies #HouseHistory #HouseHistories #CemeteryStudy #CemeteryStudies

Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage, who have registered their #HouseHistory of this former shepherds cottage with us as a #OnePlaceStudy, have an exhibition coming up! The Women of Hoar Oak Cottage will be hosted in turn by three different venues in #Exmoor National Park from March 15th to June 28th.

#OnePlaceStudies #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #ExmoorNationalPark

#OnePlaceWednesday is here again! Use the hashtag to post, or see other contributors' posts—news, updates, links to resources or blog posts, questions, observations, or general chat—about #OnePlaceStudies in all their forms (including #HouseHistory and #StreetStudy projects).

Are you carrying out or interested in #HouseHistory, #StreetStudies or other #OnePlaceStudies? Join us for our our mid-week social media chat #OnePlaceWednesday: contribute your news, questions, ideas, links, pictures, anything #OnePlaceStudy-related, at any time during the day.

If you are pursuing #HouseHistory 🔎🏠 research in the USA 🇺🇸 (or interested in doing so), here's a full-length (1 hour 24 minutes) talk which has recently been added to YouTube and is well worth checking out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTIMXfLHDjM

#HouseHistories #LocalHistory #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies

#OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudies #StreetStudies #HouseHistory peeps, do you have any advice for finding who lived at USA street addresses? Share your research strategies and beat my answer.
https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/q/19222/1006

Has it dawned on you yet just how wonderful #OnePlaceStudies are?!? 😀

Join in with our mid-week social media chat #OnePlaceWednesday, using the hashtag to follow along or to contribute #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory / #CemeteryStudy news, views, resources, questions, or general chat at any time during the day.

#OnePlace10 ideas? How about Ten Things about your place? Ten favourite pictures / documents relating to your #OnePlaceStudy. The Top Ten occupations, or surnames, and how they changed over time. A #HouseHistory of number 10 in your #StreetStudy (or a street in your wider OPS). Ten interesting people from your place, or a family can follow for ten generations. If your study has been going for ten years or more, what has changed in that time? Or look ahead to what the next ten years might bring!

Two #HouseHistory events coming soon

🏠 National Library of Scotland—Researching Your House History. Wed 30 Aug 2023, 15:00 - 16:00 BST, online, free!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researching-your-house-history-tickets-694617388307

🏠 Society of Genealogists—How We Used to Live: Vernacular Houses through Time. Thu 14 Sep 202,3 14:00-15:00 BST, online, £10 (£6.50 for SoG members). https://members.sog.org.uk/events/643e7686f5f3c20008510e44/description

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #HouseHistories #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceWednesday

With our focus on #HouseHistories this #OnePlaceWednesday, here's a link to a recording of one of our past #OnePlaceStudy webinars for members back in 2020, when house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen treated us to a great presentation all about UK #HouseHistory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP3_Fib1sqM

A number of our member-registered #OnePlaceStudies are #HouseHistories. The sources and techniques used for a #HouseHistory can be applied to a #StreetStudy or a wider #OnePlaceStudy, although it may not be feasible for the individual houses in larger studies to be researched in the same depth. #OnePlaceWednesday

In the UK, interest in #HouseHistory research has been given a boost in recent years by the BBC series A House Through Time.

Clips, and episodes available on iPlayer, can be viewed on the BBC website: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09l64y9.

There is also a book, by David Olusoga and Melanie Backe-Hansen: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-house-through-time-david-olusoga/1043734

#OnePlaceWednesday #OnePlaceStudies #HouseHistories #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

Some useful #HouseHistory links on #OnePlaceWednesday:

🟢 Trace My House - https://www.tracemyhouse.com/

🟢 National Library of Scotland Maps - https://maps.nls.uk/guides/houses/

🟢 Library of Congress - https://guides.loc.gov/house-history

🟢 National Library of Australia - https://www.nla.gov.au/faq/how-do-i-trace-the-history-of-my-house

Do you have any to add?

#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory #OnePlaceStudies #HouseHistories

Our mid-week, day-long #OnePlaceStudy social media chat #OnePlaceWednesday is here again!

This week we're focusing mainly on #HouseHistories, but posts relating to #OnePlaceStudies in any form, anywhere, are welcome. Use the hashtag to contribute to or follow the chat.

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #HouseHistory

Reflect on your #OnePlaceStudies on #OnePlaceWednesday! Looking forward to your #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory thoughts, questions, news, links, pictures and more, posted with the #OnePlaceWednesday hashtag at any time through the day. 😀

RT @2avsagas: I'm always amazed how few cars there are in all these photos from 4-5 decades ago. It's a choice to let private cars dictate city street policy and one made in the not-so-distant past.

RT @brownstonedetec A delivery boy in Carroll Gardens in the 1970s (credit: Peter Bellamy).

#Brooklyn #brownstone #History #HouseHistory

For #MapMonday, an extract from a 25-inch Ordnance Survey map showing the location of #Eton College Boathouse 20 #OnePlaceStudy / #HouseHistory.

Find out more about our member Denise Whalley's OPS of the former boathouse in which she now lives, at https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/berkshire/eton-college-boathouse-20/

Map: https://maps.nls.uk / https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.48613&lon=-0.60878&layers=168&b=1

#LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #EtonCollege

For #MapMonday, an extract from a 25-inch Ordnance Survey map showing the location of #Eton College Boathouse 20 #OnePlaceStudy / #HouseHistory.

Find out more about our member Denise Whalley's OPS of the former boathouse in which she now lives, at https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/berkshire/eton-college-boathouse-20/

Map: https://maps.nls.uk / https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.48613&lon=-0.60878&layers=168&b=1

#LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #EtonCollege

For #MapMonday, an extract from a 25-inch Ordnance Survey map showing the location of #Eton College Boathouse 20 #OnePlaceStudy / #HouseHistory.

Find out more about our member Denise Whalley's OPS of the former boathouse in which she now lives, at https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/berkshire/eton-college-boathouse-20/

Map: https://maps.nls.uk / https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.48613&lon=-0.60878&layers=168&b=1

#LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #EtonCollege

For #MapMonday, an extract from a 25-inch Ordnance Survey map showing the location of #Eton College Boathouse 20 #OnePlaceStudy / #HouseHistory.

Find out more about our member Denise Whalley's OPS of the former boathouse in which she now lives, at https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/berkshire/eton-college-boathouse-20/

Map: https://maps.nls.uk / https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18.0&lat=51.48613&lon=-0.60878&layers=168&b=1

#LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #EtonCollege

Finding #listed buildings—useful websites for your UK #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory:

🟢 GB: http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk

🟢 England: http://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/

🟢 Wales: https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/inspire-wg:Cadw_ListedBuildings

🟢 Scotland: http://historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support/listing-scheduling-and-designations/listed-buildings/search-for-a-listed-building

🟢 NI: http://apps.communities-ni.gov.uk/Buildings/

#OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory

Welcome to #OnePlaceWednesday, our mid-week, day-long Mastodon and Twitter (definitely not X) chat about #OnePlaceStudies!

Use the hashtag to share your #OnePlaceStudy / #StreetStudy / #HouseHistory news, links, pics, updates, questions and more, and to follow the conversation.

#HouseHistory top tip from Hampshire Archives Trust (shared from their Twitter account).

Season 2 of the Trust's podcast is all about #HouseHistories, with house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen giving on advice on researching with archival material, and sharing some of the stories she has uncovered. Listen and learn! https://hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/stories/podcast/series-2-episode-1-uncovering-house-history

#OnePlaceStudies #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #AHouseThroughTime

I thought I would share a webinar I recently did for the Ohio Genealogical Society on how to (and how I) research house histories online. #Webinar #Webinars #HowTo #HouseHistories #HouseHistory #Research

https://www.ogs.org/resource/researching-house-histories-from-the-comfort-of-your-home-noel-poirier-ogs-executive-director/

Facebook reminded me 5 years ago today I started investigating the 200 year history of 166 #Nethergate, #Dundee where my husband works. Former Dundee Uni Careers building, now HQ of spinoff company STAR-Dundee. 49 page report. Print copies with Dundee Uni Archives, Dundee City Archives & Historic Environment Scotland. #HouseHistory #BuildingHistory #ScottishHistory #DundeeUniversity #Architecture #Space #SpaceIndustry #SpaceResearch #StarDundee #Scotland

Every house in a community, regardless of size or expense, can tell us a story about its past inhabitants and their lives. This modest brick home in New Philadelphia, Ohio includes stories of a beloved community member and family tragedies.

#localhistory #househistory #ohiohistory #ohio #newphiladelphiaohio #tuscarawascounty #familyhistory @histodons #history

http://noel-poirier.com/2023/02/17/one-houses-story-the-denison-family/

This house on North Broadway in New Philadelphia, Ohio has amazing details that give it the classic “haunted house” vibe. No ghost story, but this is the story of the family who built it over 130 years ago.

Big thank you to Kim at the Tuscarawas County Historical Society for an image!

#househistory #housestory #localhistory #ohiohistory #ohio #tuscarawascounty #familyhistory #architecturalhistory @histodons

http://noel-poirier.com/2023/02/14/one-houses-story-the-gribble-family/

We're pleased to welcome 17 #OnePlaceStudies
to our free Directory over the past week
https://oneplacestudy.org/archives/3832
Will your #OnePlaceStudy, #StreetStudy, #HouseHistory, #Cemetery study or #Disaster study be next?
#OnePlaceWednesday
https://oneplacestudy.org/archives/3832

▶️ Our free #OnePlaceStudies Directory at https://oneplacestudy.org includes 3000+ study locations
✅ Top Tip:
▶️ Enter [C in search box to show only Cemetery studies
▶️ [D for Disaster studies
▶️ [P for single Property studies
▶️ [S for single Street studies
▶️ [W for Wartime studies
#OnePlaceStudy #Geneadons #Genealogy #HouseHistory #StreetStudy

The #HouseHistory of Marton Hall, which is being researched by @AtcherleyONS, is one of two member-registered #OnePlaceStudies to have a profile page added to our website this weekend: https://one-place-studies.org/europe/england/shropshire/marton-hall/

#OnePlaceStudy #HouseHistories #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #Genealogy #Geneadons

✅ Our free Directory of #OnePlaceStudies now has 3,045 study locations with another four queued for addition overnight.
❓ Will your #OnePlaceStudy, #HouseHistory. #StreetStudy etc. be next?
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

If your study place has a website & also a study page on #WikiTree, we can now include BOTH in the links column of our free Directory at https://oneplacestudy.org
#OnePlaceStudy #HouseHistory #StreetStudy #WW1 #WW2 #Cemetery #OnePlaceStudies #Genealogy #LocalHistory

Great news for researchers with #Genealogy, #FamilyHistory, #LocalHistory and #OnePlaceStudy interests in #Scotland: the #1921census is available from 9am on Wednesday 30 November at https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk!

#Geaneadons #HouseHistory #StreetStudies #OnePlaceStudies

Today is my day off from #academia, aka my day for #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory research. Lots of projects on the go, including assignments for #strathclyde #pgcert in #genealogy and writing #HouseHistory of my 290-year-old #warwickshire village house … but am mostly mulling a #OnePlaceStudy of the lost hamlet where the house stands, which was absorbed into the larger village by end of C19. I collected this data from the 1841 tithe map and census years ago & wd love to put it to use!

A street of colourful houses. Did the people who lived in them lead colourful lives? A #HouseHistory or #StreetStudy project makes for an enjoyable and very manageable #OnePlaceStudy and could help you discover more about the place you live in, a place you love, or a place that was important to some of your ancestors.

#OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite.

A #OnePlaceStudy can be of a single building, such as a house. Other buildings can be the subjects of #OnePlaceStudies too - institutions for example, or commercial premises. If there are records available which you can use to research the history of the building and its people, it can be an OPS.

Here's a fascinating single-building OPS, conducted by our member Denise Whalley: Eton College Boathouse 20 https://www.one-place-studies.org/europe/england/berkshire/eton-college-boathouse-20/

#HouseHistory #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #Genealogy #Microhistory

Thinking of carrying out a #OnePlaceStudy? Interested in finding out more about this cracking combination of #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory? Check out our Guide to #OnePlaceStudies, in PDF format, on our website! https://www.one-place-studies.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Guide%20To%20One-Place%20Studies.pdf

#Genealogy #Geneadons #Microhistory #SocialHistory #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday