It may be a little off topic, but I thought it was a wonderful story which I knew nothing about until my husband mentioned it this morning, and I have no idea how it came up in conversation, but it did 🤣 https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/communicate/press-media/wwi-centennial-news/1210-cher-ami-the-pigeon-that-saved-the-lost-battalion.html

Before I take the plunge and order a marriage certificate, can anyone advise where else I can seach for the marriage details of Hannah Ferry born 1855, Sunderland (Parents William Ferry and Hannah Clark). I have found 2 possible marriages - Robert William Evans (Married 1875 - Sunderland) William Clouder (Married 1877 - Sunderland) I have searched - Ancestry, Findmypast, Familysearch, and Durham Records Online, but they have only resulted in the Index record which doesn't show her fathers details etc. On the census of 1871 Hannah was living at 12 Gerald Street, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, if that may help. Thank you

(Just saw this on another group and thought it might be of interest to some people) A historical topic that is currently passionate about genealogists around the world... The US National Archives recently uploaded the NSDAP membership file (part nazi ), a major historical source thus far hardly accessible. The interest was such that the site was even temporarily saturated. These archives allow, in some cases, to find: a date of birth a place of birth a date of joining and even the digitized membership card A valuable document for those who wish to better understand their family history and explore sometimes unknown breads of the past. A particularly useful resource for research related to people born before 1926. Unfortunately it didn't give a link.

I keep seeing in some groups on FB, where people are editing and enhancing their old family photos then colorizing them. I became interested in doing this with some old family photos I have that are in poor condition and you can't really clearly see the person. At first, I was looking at apps for photo editing, I had to get a new computer about a month or so ago and discovered I had an app on my new computer that would do this. It is the Copilot AI powered app. I started playing around with the app to see how it worked. I think I pretty much got it down now. You have to type in command prompt for what you want to do, and it does it. Anyways, I tried out editing and enhancing a few really old photos of family members and WOW! They turned out so awesome. I am attaching a few I did. Here are the before and after photos. Let me know what you think. These are my great grandparents Henry Hamilton Weakley and Mary (Sedden) Wilson Weakley.

This week I want you all to find the oldest photo in your photo album and tell us where it was taken, and who the person/people in the photo are. What I want you to do next is post the photo here....and we have to guess when it was taken, to the nearest decade!!!