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Dear Diary (the calendar and planning kind of one), I am, quite frankly, shattered. Exhausted to the point of not posting a blog yesterday. Why, you […]

But heavens, how did I survive? I have done the A to Z blogging challenge before but this year seemed so much harder…. we are certainly […]

There have been a few tough nuts to crack during the A-Z blog and the last of the lot, Z, had a fairly short list of […]

The best time to start doing family history is ‘in your youth‘ as there are (hopefully) family members from older generations still around to assist with names, dates, […]

This was always destined to be one of the more challenging letters of the A-Z blog list. X can always revert to the lazy X…. along […]

Modern technology is wonderful. When I first started researching my own family history (when I was a “microbe” – Pa FWL’s parlance for being a youngster, i.e. under […]

“What?” I hear you shout. It’s rather unlikely that the parent taking their child to the Public Vaccinator in the nineteenth century to be vaccinated for smallpox […]

Oh, how many possibilities there are with this title! How many people in the world claim that they are descended from King Oojamaflip? Or they have […]

Two small words (in English) which, when put together, mean a lot to the recipient. We seem to have become a society of people always ready to […]