{"id":21381,"date":"2021-02-03T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=21381"},"modified":"2021-02-03T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:52:26","slug":"marian-bulford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/marian-bulford\/","title":{"rendered":"Marian Bulford&#8217;s Heritage Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-mixcloud wp-block-embed-mixcloud wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"51: Marian Bulford&#039;s Heritage Discoveries\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FTraceyArial%2Fmarian-bulfords-heritage-discoveries%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week on the podcast, I interview Marian Bulford, a genealogist, researcher, indexer and writer. She describes what it&#8217;s like to discover family secrets as she researches and writes stories about her ancestors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to join Marian in indexing records from around the world, you can do so at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/indexing\/\">Indexing Page<\/a> on the Family History website. You can also choose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/indexing\/projects\/country\/ca\">Canadian project<\/a> if you prefer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read some of Marian&#8217;s stories on <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogyensemble.com\/\">Genealogy Ensemble<\/a>. Some of my favourites include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogyensemble.com\/2019\/04\/17\/buried-in-woollen\/\">Buried in Woollen<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogyensemble.com\/2018\/08\/29\/granny-was-in-the-wrens\/\">Granny was in the Wrens<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogyensemble.com\/2015\/11\/18\/the-family-secret\/\">The Family Secret<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve also interviewed some of the other Genealogy Ensemble writers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/mary-sutherland\/\">Mary<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/dorothy-nixon\/\">Dorothy<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/lucy-anglin\/\">Lucy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the podcast, I interview Marian Bulford, a genealogist, researcher, indexer and writer. She describes what it&#8217;s like to discover family secrets as she researches and writes stories about her ancestors. If you want to join Marian in indexing records from around the world, you can do so at the Indexing Page on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[100,893,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-ensemble-history-worth-remembering","category-unapologetically-canadian","category-writing","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-5yR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17731,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/beads-necklace-book\/","url_meta":{"origin":21381,"position":0},"title":"Our book &#8220;Beads in a Necklace&#8221; launches today!","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"November 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm so excited. 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