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Why couldn’t the census enumerators have asked this question? Why didn’t they spend longer on those doorsteps, really grilling our ancestors …. about their ages, places […]

I spend my entire life digging into the past, but I don’t very often dig into my own. For some reason, something inspired me to look back […]

When does something become routine in life? A permanent fixture which cannot be changed. How can the nuts and bolts of life in some capacities be […]

To whom it may concern: Once upon a time, I was a lazy MD. I did my work each day and never considered how much physical […]

As MD of FWL, I often find myself carrying out the ‘oddest’ of tasks. Things that I never would have imagined would be ‘part of the […]

Over the past year, FWL have had some interesting cases which have not, shall we say, conformed! On various occasions, the Bonavacantia list is not kind, giving us […]

At the time of writing, I am well past the point at which I would even vaguely consider picking up the telephone to call someone in […]

As regular readers will know, I used to have a very different ‘day job’ to what I do now. In my past life, each day was […]

It’s been ‘the talk of the town’…. the genealogical ‘town’ anyway! I have barely managed to look at social media today without people discussing the cost, […]