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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!

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I'm delighted to welcome Sandra Danby, author of the 'Identity Detective' series, to this week's Bite-size blog. Sandra's series...

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Sep 6, 20196 min read

Last Sunday was my parents' wedding anniversary. Sadly, neither are alive to celebrate what would have been 64 years as husband and wife....

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Aug 30, 20192 min read

I crawled into the back of the loft the other day (no mean feat, I have to say!) and dug out the carrier bag of my late dad’s cine films....

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Aug 23, 20192 min read

I shall be off-grid for a couple of weeks from tomorrow as I take a holiday in Cornwall (yes, Cornwall again!). This time I'm staying in...

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Aug 9, 20192 min read

Even though our water lily is about to take over our pond, I could never bring myself to change it for a less monstrous variety because...

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Aug 3, 20191 min read

It's that time of year again when schools in the UK break up for the long summer holidays and the dreaded (for some) school reports come...

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Jul 27, 20191 min read

This week mark's the anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, which is a bit of coincidence as I've just finished...

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Jul 19, 20192 min read

The family historian's greatest frustration - unnamed old family photographs! When we came across a fabulous Victorian photograph album...

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Jul 12, 20191 min read

I was delighted to hear this week that one of my favourite museums, St Fagan’s National Museum of History in Cardiff, had won Art Fund's...

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Jul 5, 20192 min read

Have you ever got rid of something only to regret it later? My dad always maintained he should never have sold his Morgan sports car....

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Jun 28, 20192 min read