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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
By the 1870's one-third of the population over 70 lived in the workhouse. There are many reasons why and mainly because people were too poor, sick or too old to...