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…
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…
Debtors Prison was a place of dread and shame. Unlike today owing money and being in debt today as we all know is stressful and inflicts pressure onto families, especially in many cases where you are struggling to keep up with re payments. Well this article can make you feel a little bit better about…
As we have seen from many old photos and family stories that our Victorian ancestors suffered with bad teeth and it is only been in the last eighty years that oral mouth hygiene has become more and more of an importance. Dentistry in itself has come a long way and become so advanced with new…
I’m sure that many of us doing family history have found out many unexpected things and unanswered questions out through our research. Many of us are quite taken back when we do find something unexpected and wonder why we were never told certain things and why these family secrets were always kept quite, for sometimes more than a lifetime. We have to…