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Emma Explores… Stories, Mysteries and Fame » Emma Cox » December 2024

In our final 2024 program, Emma Cox delivered a delightful presentation connecting historical to research techniques centering around one very well-connected ancestor, Archbishop William Markham.

In today’s episode, Emma Cox dove into her family legacy to explore stories woven through our shared Anglophone history.

Stories associated with The Most Reverand William Markham, archbishop of York, took us from Westminster Abbey plaques to tombs without bones. As with these programs, Emma’s insights help us all learn how to separate fact from fiction and use her stories to help us in our research.

Emma’s graciously shared her slides as PDF files. Note the many underlined text references on each slide. These are active links to external resources such as the Church of England Database, the History of Parliament Online, and the Napoleon Series for its military database and other useful resources.

Projectkin's “Emma Explores: The Markham Family”
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In her discussion, Emma also mentioned a recent Journeys Into Genealogy podcast episode, “The Prize Papers with Anne Ramon,” which discussed English naval ships and the privateers they battled in the Atlantic. 

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The Prize Papers with Anne Ramon
The Prize Papers are a treasure trove of documents giving an insight into life in the 1700s. Captured by English naval ships and privateers they include crew lists, captains logs, poetry, shopping lists, doodles, fabric samples and price lists and even instructions for a Dutch East India Company spy…
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For more tips, view all past episodes of Emma Explores here. Then, join us for our first program of the new calendar year, Emma Explores, on January 16th.

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