March 13, 2025
If you’ve ever traced your family tree, you know that surprises can lurk among the branches. But imagine discovering that one of your most famous ancestors wasn’t actually related to you by blood! That’s exactly what happened to Werner van Read more…
November 24, 2024
I recently wrote a thread on Bsky concerning my thoughts on AI after the release of the new photo tool by MyHeritage. I have decided to expand those thoughts into a blog post. Artificial Intelligence is a transformative tool with Read more…
December 15, 2023
The simplest answer would be to say no tree is 100% accurate if we are strictly following the paper trail. This would mean that even though we have mitigated against the worst defects by analysing documents, we will be defeated Read more…
October 24, 2023
Our Victorian city dwellers moved frequently. After moving house myself I wondered why they moved and what gave them a sense of belonging? How did they find stability moving from lodging house to lodging house? And how did the lack of personal objects hinder memories?
February 12, 2023
In 1635 my 10th great grandparents Crispin Hooper and Rebecca Leere married at Charleton in Devon; it was a second marriage for both of them. Both were soaked in middle class gentrified heritage. Crispin had a coat of arms which Read more…
October 7, 2022
The original role of the coachman took many guises. He may have worked on the stagecoach, the mail coach, for a doctor, for other professionals, or for families of the middling sort, and of course for the upper classes. It Read more…
August 26, 2022
Three decades or so ago, many family historians would have felt a tinge of disappointment to discover their ancestors were agricultural labourers. Possibly because those working within the farming industry of the 18th, 19th and to some extent the early Read more…
August 22, 2022
Much has been written about illegitimacy in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries, but were things any different for the single mother in the early to mid-twentieth century? Yes and no might be the answer to that question. In the twentieth Read more…
February 6, 2022
In this blog I am going to discuss blanket searching parish registers in England & Wales and how it can benefit your research. I first heard the term used in the 1990s, but have not heard it mentioned much since, Read more…
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