Tag Archives: Hibbitt

Transcribing Audio Files With NotebookLM

Posted on 15 July 2025 by
Transcribing Audio in NotebookLM (AI Generated)

I recently posted about the Audio Overview feature in NotebookLM by Google. This time, I wanted to try something else. I created a new Notebook and imported an old digital audio recording (an mp3 file which I’d converted from an … Continue reading →

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Dad and I Visit Old Haunts In The South Hams

Posted on 6 June 2025 by
Frogmore Creek

My Grandpa Hibbitt kept a boat at Frogmore Creek in the South Hams in Devon during the 1960’s. I’ve posted about this before – see this link. On the 4th June 2025, my dad and I took a little day … Continue reading →

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Their Finest Hour

Posted on 14 July 2024 by
Their Finest Hour event held at Plymouth University on 23rd November 2023

Last November, Harvey and I attended an event at Plymouth University in order to contribute to a new online archive called ‘Their Finest Hour’. The University of Oxford project was devised in order to preserve stories and take photographs and … Continue reading →

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It’s Official – Grandpa Was In The Dad’s Army

Posted on 10 November 2023 by
The Home Guard Certificate which belonged to Charles George Hibbitt

I’d long been intrigued by what looked like a certificate which had been issued by the Home Guard amongst the papers belonging to my Grandpa Hibbitt (Charles George Hibbitt). However I’d never had any success in finding anything out about … Continue reading →

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A 1921 Census Search Proves Tricky In Locating Hibbitt Relatives

Posted on 27 January 2023 by
Alice and Nell Hibbitt at Wembury Beach

Don’t want to read? Click PLAY to hear an AI-generated audio discussion on this blog post’s key topics. (The audio was produced by NotebookLM Deep Dive Conversation.) Continuing on from my previous post with my searches in the 1921 census, … Continue reading →

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On This Day… 9th April

Posted on 27 April 2022 by
Alice Free, aged 4

9TH APRIL On 9th April 1882, my great-grandmother, Alice Dando, nee Free, was born in Hadstock, a village in Essex not far from Saffron Walden. Her father, Stephen Free, was 66 years old when she was born and was much … Continue reading →

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On This Day In 1873

Posted on 8 October 2021 by
Baptism of Alfred Charles Newbold Hibbitt

8TH OCTOBER Not only is it the 49th anniversary of my Grandpa Hibbitt’s (Charles George Hibbitt) death today but I have only just realised that his father, Alfred Charles Newbold Hibbitt, was baptized on this day in 1873, exactly 99 … Continue reading →

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Remembering Grandpa

Posted on 8 October 2020 by
Funeral flowers placed on the grave of Charles George Hibbitt

8TH OCTOBER On this day in 1972, my Grandpa, Charles George Hibbitt, died aged 73, at South Hams Hospital in Kingsbridge, Devon. I remember that day when I waved him off in Greenbank Hospital in Plymouth. Although I was only … Continue reading →

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On This Day In 1869 And 1959

Posted on 3 August 2020 by
Charles Llewellyn Ernest Elbert Dando with his wife, Alice, at Goodrington

2ND AUGUST I have only just realized that one of my dad’s grandfathers was born on this day, 2nd August, and the other died on this day. 1869 – Alfred Charles Newbold Hibbitt was born on 2nd August 1869 at … Continue reading →

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Update On The Hibbitt/Hibbett/Hibbit Y-DNA Haplogroup

Posted on 16 April 2019 by
The R Z2189 Haplogroup on the YTree

Following on from a previous post where I explained that my patrilineal line doesn’t match the Hibbitt haplogroup, I am now giving an update for those called Hibbitt or a variant of the name. We now have four people called … Continue reading →

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