This post may explain why I have been a bit distracted of late and why posts have been more irregular than usual. This is an exciting day for the lovely group of ladies I’ve been working with for the past two years. We came together during lock-down to support each other and work on family history projects. A bit like organisations that encourage you to lose weight, if you know you will be reporting back every couple of weeks, you actually get on and do something. It has worked well and we’ve all become friends, some of us have even met in real life! We worked on our own biographies and the stories of our grandmothers, we looked at heirlooms and much more.

Several of us had an existing interest in marginalised ancestors. We realised that it was often women whose stories get overlooked, so we set out to preserve the memories of some forgotten women. After several months of work, we have today gone live with our website, introducing our first batch of forgotten women. This is just a start, we have more women’s stories in the pipeline and other ideas for further development. It is definitely a case of watch this space. I could make this a really long post and explaining the project but you might just as well head over to the A Few Forgotten Women website and discover what it is all about for yourself. It also means I can now go and eat breakfast instead of keep typing.