Emma Explores… Stories, Mysteries and Fame » Emma Cox » May 2025

What fun to welcome our special guest,

Emma - Journeys into Genealogy

, back to Projectkin’s Emma Explores series. In today’s program, the extended family of James Blatch Cox of Falmouth, England,¹ provided a framework for storytelling about the home life, business enterprises, and historical context of 19th-century Britain, Canada, and the United States.

We learned about James Blatch Cox’s varied career and how he and his wife, Harriet Newberry, went on to have nine children and a breathtaking 85 grandchildren!

Projectkin's "Emma Explores" James Blatch Cox And Family

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Explore the slides from Emma's presentation today.

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In the slides, you’ll see a number of references Emma shared as sources for her research, including:

• Grace’s Guide: gracesguide.co.uk/Cox_and_Co

• British Newspaper Archive: britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

• Info from distant cousins who compiled Ancestry trees

• Local newspaper falmouthpacket.co.uk

• Wikitree for stories wikitree.com/wiki/Cox-34433

In our conversation, we also talked about tools for such things as exploring maps in various forms. Among the sites we mentioned were:

• Two interviews of Emma’s for her Journeys into Genealogy podcast:

  • “Maps, the Ordnance Survey, digitisation and more” Emma’s interview with Chris Fleet from the National Library of Scotland: Chris Fleet

  • “Londonist with Matt Brown,” Emma’s interview with

    Matt Brown
    the explorer behind the
    Londonist
    publication.

• The interface from OldMapsOnline.com (This came up in regard to time sliding between maps.)

• Using Google Maps with layers to capture places where your ancestors might have lived (and the caution to be sure to clean place names to their analogs on modern maps.)

If you enjoyed this program, please take a moment to thank Emma with a ❤️ below and subscribe to her podcast, Journeys into Genealogy. You can also explore Emma’s personal publication, My Family History, which features more stories about Emma’s family.

If you’ve just discovered the Projectkin Community Forum and this wonderful genealogy community on Substack, welcome! It’s a delight to have you. I hope to see you at future events. You’ll find many more programs like these in our events calendar:

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1. I know many of us are outside of Britain. If you were also curious, I thought I’d tuck a link I happened to capture to show where Falmouth is in Cornwall. 😉