Growing up, one of things that sticks out in my mind around Christmas time was watching Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” which over the years I have watched many adaptations and versions of. It’s a story we all are very familiar with. Dickens brought to life the well-known frugal Ebenezer Continue Reading
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A letter signed Bransby Williams
Family history can take you on the strangest of paths sometimes. Amongst some old brown torn paperwork I came across a letter which stood out to me which was signed Bransby Williams. One of my most recent genealogy projects has taken me on a slightly different journey to this great Continue Reading
School Records
The School Records – many of these children went to fight in the great war. School became compulsory from 1880 when the Elementary Education Act came in for children aged 5 – 10 to attend school. The Act was an extension of the 1870 Act which is otherwise known as Continue Reading
DNA – Do I? Don’t I?
DNA is such a personal journey for many and it is up to the individual if they want to take that leap into the world of DNA. Many decide it’s not for them and to be honest a few years ago that was me. However, I realised that my DNA Continue Reading
Old and Unheard of Occupations
Firstly sorry I have not been able to post in a while due to trying to complete my lectures for my coursework and being a mother of two small children who demand a lot of my attention. Anyway genealogy and history are the two places I go when I have Continue Reading
Adoption
Adoption is a subject that a lot of people involved find hard to talk about and a subject that is an incredibly sensitive and personal to the individual. One thing about tracing family history is that it opens up events in people’s lives that have happened a long time ago. Continue Reading
Family History – Be Open Minded
Family history is a unique journey for everyone and when you’re looking into your family history, you may find you will be overwhelmed with information with peoples names, dates and places. You may find that not everything is going as smoothly as you thought it would and you have hit Continue Reading
Lets Find Our Ancestors!
When people ask me how to start tracing their family history, my best advice would be start with you. Whether you know much about your family or you don’t the starting point is the day you were born. It’s like you have stumbled across the last few pages of Continue Reading
Arthur Hollis, Not Forgotten
It’s been a hundred years on the 11th November since the First World War ended. It feels strange talking about an event that happened before mine, my parents and my grandparents life time. Some people would argue why do we as a nation need to reflect on something that happened Continue Reading
Remembering the Children on the Titanic
It sends shivers down your spine even thinking about those poor men, women and children who lost their lives that dreadful night. The RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton for New York on the 10th April 1912 with 2,223 people on board. It was the largest passenger ship in the Continue Reading