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 could possibly be the way…
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 five minutes to myself. The…
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. Not all family stories of…
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 a brick wall in your…
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 a book and you want…
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 so long ago. My answer…
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 world at the time and…
The 1841 census is the earliest and first census in the UK that has survived as a whole. Other census were taken before hand but only parts of each have survived. So what are you likely to find when researching the 1841 census? When you find your ancestor it will give them at a residence…
If you know me I am a bit of a history geek and I used to spend time reading and researching records from where I used to live. It must be about twelve years ago when I came across another person who took my interest. Her name was Lady Meux of Theobald’s otherwise known as…
This month I decided to cover a little bit on railway workers and the sort of records that you can search on ancestry to do with the railway. My great grandfather Bernard Barnard worked on the railway at Shepreth, Cambridge and Tottenham. There were many types of jobs within the railway community and the roles…