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Sometimes family history research brings more than its fair share of challenges when another really common name pops up in your ancestry. Evans marrying Evans, Williams, […]

At the International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in 1910, International Women’s Day was established. Initially the aims were to promote the rights of women and […]

Good heavens! How on earth did this week pass us by so quickly? I think the short answer is, we haven’t stopped here in the offices […]

A little over ten years ago, a decision was made to publish a journal about the Sillifant surname (my one-name study) and its variant and deviant […]

Although initially, I had no intention of having a theme for this week’s blog entries, the Internet Sites for Local Historians: a directory is literally such […]

The quantity and variety of historical resources available on the internet is increasing at an extremely rapid rate and these represent enormously valuable research tools. However […]

During the Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2014 event, it was great to catch up with various stall holders who, over the years, I […]

At the top of my Steer tree – provided by my grandfather in the 1980s – was Joshua Steer: The # links to another comment on […]

Hapus Dydd Gywl Ddewi….. St David (or Dewi) is the patron saint of Wales. Although little is known about his life, he was said to have […]