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Wendy Percival
- Sep 8, 2018
- 2 min
Book settings, film locations & potato peelings
Recently I went to see The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society which was a delightful film and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Set...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 30, 2018
- 2 min
A genealogy-lit fest!
There's a saying amongst authors, often aimed at new writers, "write what you like to read". So, as well as being an author of genealogy...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 27, 2018
- 1 min
The secrets of our bookshelves
I recently took up the challenge to post a photograph on Facebook of the cover of a favourite book each day for 7 days. As the books on...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 17, 2018
- 2 min
Opening a can of worms?
Today in 1836 legislation was introduced in Britain, requiring all births, marriages and deaths to be registered. The first certificates...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 15, 2018
- 2 min
Visiting the scene of the crime
Today is the anniversary of the tragic Lynmouth flood disaster in August 1952 when a giant wall of water rushed down the steep river...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 8, 2018
- 2 min
An Australian coincidence
While researching the family of my Metropolitan Police ancestor, Ernest Ellisdon (read more about him in my post The Whitechapel Murders...
Wendy Percival
- Aug 8, 2018
- 2 min
An Australian coincidence
While researching the family of my Metropolitan Police ancestor, Ernest Ellisdon (read more about him in my post The Whitechapel Murders...
Wendy Percival
- Jul 30, 2018
- 3 min
Secrets I never knew I had!
The benefit of revisiting old family history research notes is that you may discover a gem of information you never realised you had....
Wendy Percival
- Jul 30, 2018
- 3 min
Secrets I never knew I had!
The benefit of revisiting old family history research notes is that you may discover a gem of information you never realised you had....
Wendy Percival
- Jul 23, 2018
- 2 min
Ask Esme...
Whenever I meet readers of the Esme Quentin mysteries, they often talk about Esme’s character – why she does what she does, what drives...