Kirsty Gray

A person’s closest living relative is frequently referred to as their ‘next of kin‘. In the United States, this has a legal definition. However, in the United […]

During the course of our research, we do a lot of juggling. Juggling of hundreds of projects with different expectations, time scales, client requirements etc. Lists […]

When you are welcomed into the working world of FWL Towers, Investigation is added (by deed poll) to your name as a new (additional) middle name. That’s what […]

Wouldn’t we all like some family heirlooms?! During WDYTYA? Live, there have been a fair few knocking about as Eric Knowles and Marc Allum became ‘Heirloom […]

It could have been genealogy but that would have been too obvious! Bearing in mind where most of the team are at the moment, it would […]

What else could F possibly be for? But, by crikey, families are funny things. There is an idiom, “you can choose your friends, but you can’t […]

From 1841 to 1911 (in England, Scotland and Wales), we have a census each ten years. Handy…. though not completed for genealogical purposes! If they were, […]

Much of our work is about departure, in some fashion or form. Departure from this world to another, either with or without Will. With is mighty […]

They are a genealogist’s best friend, right? Erm, wrong! Civil registration began in England and Wales on 1 July 1837 and Scotland joined in on 1 […]