Researching Ethel - the methodology

 While I used our local library's Ancestry subscription to confirm the details of Ethel Voynich's life, I did a lot of the initial work using the free search facility on UK census online, which lets you look at a OCR transcription of the record - the transcriptions are not a 100% accurate, and like all machine generated transcriptions they have minor errors, which is why you always need to use something like Ancestry to confirm the details.

The original inspiration came from a comment in Jonathan Scheer's The Lockhart Plot, and much of the initial background came from Wikipedia and working back from the material and references in their article on Ethel Voynich.

Ethel was of course the daughter of George Boole, who was a professor of mathematics at what was then Queens College Cork, and is now University College Cork.

Cork is in Ireland, and the birth records are held in Dublin and are freely accessible via Irishgenealogy.ie. although you do have to provide your contact details. 

(If you are looking for an Irish ancestor and are not sure where they were born, you need to look at both Irishgenealogy and the Government Record office in Belfast, as the Dublin records office holds the records for the twenty six counties of the republic, and records from the six counties of Northern Ireland were transferred to Belfast after partition. The Belfast record office lets you search for free, but you have to pay to view and download records.)

I used FreeBMD to search for details of their marriage, but details such as their marriage certificate come from Colin Mackinon's website.

Working notes were in the main created and maintained using Notable, and a record of activity and next steps required maintained on Trello.

 To research the articles and write the drafts I used both Linux and Windows machines while working on this. Most of the initial rough drafts were written using Libre Office and transferred to Word for the final edit before posting to Wordpress.

Blogger posts were created by typing straight into the blogger app and sub editing afterwards.