Kirsty Gray

I love blogging. Why? Because every day it challenges me to find out something new, or develop a little snippet of knowledge I have into something […]

William Sillifant was baptised in Pyworthy in 1808 and married Mary Petherick in 1833 in Ashwater. Both Pyworthy and Ashwater are very small, rural parishes near […]

Did your ancestors go adventuring? The thrill of the unknown was irresistible to many people during the nineteenth century. They dreamed of bringing the benefits of […]

As the days goes by – and it’s only week 1! – the records for different continents are harder and harder to locate. ‘South American genealogy’…. put […]

And today is all about Africa. So, confession time readers….. How many of you have ever done any African family history research? Not so many of […]

The treasure trove – quite literally – down under….. Doing a surname study on an unusual surname, I have to confess to being a somewhat lazy […]

For June, Tuesday is the day when we turn our attention to the continent of North America and there is no better place to start than […]

Over the weekend, we put our collective brains together to come up with an idea for a blog theme to run through June (apart from Sundays […]

Roger Chubb is not what you would call a close relative of mine. He is in fact my 5 x g-grandfather and would have been born […]