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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 […]

Dear Ancestors of yesteryear, I am so delighted that you were empowered to fill out the 1911 census forms yourselves, as many of you – mostly […]

Much of my time is spent with my head in the past, tracing family trees backwards in history, or forwards to locate beneficiaries in wills or […]

Why is it so difficult to accept something for nothing these days? I bought a scratch card on Saturday for £2 and won £10. That’s fine. […]

Ann Codling was my gggg-grandmother but her name was not recorded on my maternal grandfather’s family tree. The furthest back he had traced was Margaret Robson, […]

The ghosts of thousands of long-forgotten villages haunt Britain, communities suddenly deserted and left to ruin. Back in 2010, a campaign was launched to shed light on […]