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As the days goes by – and it’s only week 1! – the records for different continents are harder and harder to locate. ‘South American genealogy’…. put […]

And today is all about Africa. So, confession time readers….. How many of you have ever done any African family history research? Not so many of […]

The treasure trove – quite literally – down under….. Doing a surname study on an unusual surname, I have to confess to being a somewhat lazy […]

For June, Tuesday is the day when we turn our attention to the continent of North America and there is no better place to start than […]

Over the weekend, we put our collective brains together to come up with an idea for a blog theme to run through June (apart from Sundays […]

Roger Chubb is not what you would call a close relative of mine. He is in fact my 5 x g-grandfather and would have been born […]

Well, Friday’s new offering from Ancestry was pretty interesting but FindmyPast certainly trumped the UK Engineer Lists in my opinion…. but that might well be because […]

Yesterday, Ancestry announced a new record set in their Occupations and Education Collections…. the UK Engineers Records now include lists and membership forms for Electrical Engineers […]

Did you know it even existed? I didn’t. Otherwise known as Royal Oak Day, Oak Apple Day commemorate the restoration of King Charles II to the […]