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On this day in history, Admiral John Byng (born 1704), the son of the 1st Viscount Torrington, George Byng, was executed in Portsmouth in 1757. He […]

Hatched, matched and dispatched…. family historians are often more interested in the hatching and the matching, than the dispatching and more often than not when I […]

Anyone who knows me will know that I hate clichés but thinking out of the box really has been the order of the day today. Moving […]

Sir Winston Churchill once said ‘it is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link […]

The uncomplicated, yet very fitting words of H. V. Morton, regarding World War 1 and the effect it had on every community in Britain (and of […]

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 […]