{"id":8107,"date":"2026-03-09T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/?page_id=8107"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:25:28","slug":"bickersteth-research-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/bickersteth-research-notebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;!doctype html&gt;<\/p>\n<style>\n:root{color-scheme:light dark;}<br \/>body{font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,\"Segoe UI\",Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0;background:#f6f6f4;color:#1c1c1c}<br \/>.wrap{width:min(900px,92%);margin:auto;padding:28px}<br \/>h1{font-size:clamp(2rem,4vw,3rem)}<br \/>.card{background:#fff;border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,.1);padding:22px;border-radius:16px;margin:22px 0}<br \/>@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){<br \/>body{background:#101214;color:#eae6de}<br \/>.card{background:#1a1c1f;border-color:#333}<br \/>}<br \/><\/style>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<h1>Research Notebooks<\/h1>\n<div class=\"card\">\n<p>The research notebooks are among the most revealing parts of the Bickersteth archive. These handwritten books contain working genealogical notes rather than polished historical narratives.<\/p>\n<p>The compiler copied entries from parish registers, family Bibles, monument inscriptions, and historical publications. In many places the writer tested different hypotheses about family connections before settling on a likely lineage.<\/p>\n<p>Such notebooks are valuable historical evidence because they preserve the research process itself. They show how genealogical conclusions were reached and which sources were consulted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;!doctype html&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; Research Notebooks The research notebooks are among the most revealing parts of the Bickersteth archive. These handwritten books contain working genealogical notes rather than polished historical narratives. The compiler copied entries from parish registers, family Bibles, monument inscriptions, and historical publications. In many places the writer tested different hypotheses about family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8107","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8110,"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8107\/revisions\/8110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianwaugh.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}