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Feel free to scroll down the posts below and discover the intriguing - sometimes shocking - discoveries I've made as I've explored my family history.

I hope you enjoy reading them!

Banking the old fashioned way

I came across my dad's old bank book the other day. It was a Midland Bank savings account and he’d opened it with the sum of 2 shillings...

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Feb 21, 20202 min read

Happy Valentine's Day! A great excuse for browsing the family photograph albums for wedding photos. The style of weddings have changed...

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Feb 14, 20202 min read

Sometimes it's good to get away from the keyboard for some inspiration and that's exactly what I did this week. Wandering around the...

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Feb 7, 20202 min read

With the UK leaving the EU today, it was rather a coincidence to discover a bundle of my dad’s old British blue passports this week while...

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Jan 31, 20202 min read

Shortly after 1871, my great-great grandmother, Emma Shelley, vanished. Not literally, obviously. But I couldn’t find her anywhere. She’d...

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Jan 24, 20202 min read

As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, I discovered, while browsing the British Newspaper Archives, that, Henry Viner, an ancestor of...

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Jan 17, 20203 min read

Doesn’t everybody loves a model steam railway? (And if you are a fan, there's a treat in store at the end of the post). My husband‘s been...

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Jan 10, 20202 min read

I'm lucky to have amongst my family treasures four beautiful embroidered postcards, known as "WWI silks" sent from the front during the...

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Dec 20, 20192 min read

I have a pantomime dame amongst my ancestors! My maternal grandfather Herbert Colley (I never met him, as he died when my mum was only...

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Dec 13, 20192 min read

It was a transport theme on this week's #ancestryhour. Followers posted pictures of their ancestors beside an eclectic selection of...

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Nov 29, 20192 min read