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What were they thinking? Up above the streets and houses… the theme encouraged us to envisage an average town, filled with average houses. Now, let’s choose […]

Are you up for the challenge set by Amy Johnson Crow… 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks? The challenge is to have one blog post each week […]

The Womble Patrol continues….  fourteen children born in England and Wales between 1994 and 2005 called Tobermory and indeed four named Tomsk between 1996 and 2004. […]

Sometimes I hear researchers say, ‘I wish I could find out where s/he was buried’. On many occasions, it is a long way from where they […]

Thanks to the wonderful @TidyBag, the Wombles Wikipedia page has duly been corrected – and vastly improved I might add – to note that in fact, […]

And so, 2014 begins with another display of OCD in the office of Family Wise. In between Heir Hunting cases and an anniversary family history gift […]

Wow – words fail me! New Year Womble died aged 95 on 19 December 1948 in North Carolina! So, who can find Orinoco Womble, Great Uncle […]

From 1 January 2014, the Daily Telegraph has been made available to view and read from one hundred years ago. Today’s edition includes coverage of the New Year’s […]

The New Year’s Honours List looks long and once again, full of very worthy individuals who have done some amazing work. However, a small part of […]