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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 […]

Every day is a busy day at the offices of Family Wise Limited since my return from Australia…. and we have had some delighted customers this […]

For those of you who watched my Legacy Family Tree webinar last night on Searching for Surnames: Challenges, Pitfalls and the Downright Ridiculous, I shared my favourite find in […]

With a catalogue of unhappy events taking place in history today – including the bomb explosion under the World Trade Center in 1993 and the hijacked […]

Well in fact, just automobiles …. as today marks the 115th anniversary of the first driver to die in a car accident. Edwin Sewell, a thirty-one […]

Between 1788 and 1853, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia for their crimes. Around half were sent to Van Diemen’s Land with most of the […]