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“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 […]

It’s all about stories. Yes, there are names, dates and places but the stories are more important, don’t you think? I inherited a family tree from […]

It could quite easily have been resources, rate books, records (far too general), rent and/or various other R words. But, relationships stood out. Why? Because everything […]

All day, every day …. questions…. so many questions…. Who was the father of X? And was the mother, Y or Z? How can we be […]

Networking? Why? …. Well frankly, why not? Family Wise Limited was founded in 2012 and, ever since its foundation, we have been networking in various guises. […]

Those who have heard my lecture on Searching for Surnames will know that I have favourite names which I (as well as, no doubt, others) have located […]

You would think that N would be an easy letter in the A-Z blog. There are definitely more challenging letters ahead and there are loads of […]