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….Education. Two hundred years ago education, which we take for granted today, was a commodity only available to nobility and the rich. Before the twentieth century, […]

…. a world of discoveries in family and local history! It could have been for dressmaker, DNA, death, descendant, denomination (of the religious kind) or Devon […]

….copious counties, censuses, clerks, curates, courts, convicts and today’s C, for christenings. The christening (or baptism) of a child was supposed to take place the first Sunday […]

…. blooming loads of things! Baptisms, births, books, Bible Christians, blogging, brick walls…. but I decided to go for burials for today’s B. There is so […]

Day 1 of The Genealogist’s A-Z  begins naturally with A – the all important, accuracy. Over the last few days, some entertaining inaccuracies in transcriptions on […]

Any of my blog followers who know me well, will know that I wear a couple of genealogical hats, most of which are not mentioned on […]

Continuing my entertaining searches in the 1911 census, I marvelled today at the number of ice cream manufacturers/sellers born in Italy. But, I moved on quickly. […]

Last night, I spotted an interesting tweet about a page in the 1911 census, making mention of the suffragette movement. And so, just before the witching […]

How many times do you compliment people each day? Each week? Sometimes, it’s all too easy to go through life only picking up on the negatives. […]