Research
About our researchers and some “how to” guides and advice for those wishing to contribute.
WW1 Jigsaw
Shops and Pub Jigsaw
Scouts Jigsaw
The ODIN Database Project
The eventual goal will be to allow visitors to the website to navigate their own journeys through our history - travelling from person to person, place to place being able to view pictures, documents and other items relating to them and facilitate research. Our first...
Digitisation Project
Where do you Think You Are?
We are considering starting the project by interrogating the archive to trace the various homes occupied by the Wallis family, the family of the legendary headmaster of Bishopsteignton School. Several of his homes still stand, including the Community Centre where he...
Parish Census Search Tool
Welcome to our Parish Census Search Tool. We have combined information from all the currently available censuses 1841 – 1939. There is a lot of fascinating information to be found therein which is presented as transcribed from the originals by our team of volunteers in order to enable you to research the people and places within the parish of Bishopsteignton
Part 4: Researching Your House History
Once you have worked on sorting and preserving your family’s archive documents as well as expanding on their stories with some family history research, it can be very useful and a lot of fun to research the history of your house. This week is a little bit...
Favourite Photo Challenge
Are you looking for a fun family activity you can do together during this lockdown period? Are your old photos languishing in shoeboxes or taking up space on your computer? A fun family activity you can do together during lockdown….