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Wendy Percival
May 28, 20212 min read
A legacy of letters
When was the last time you sat down and wrote a letter by hand? It must be quite a rare event these days – with emails and messaging...
Wendy Percival
May 21, 20212 min read
The next mystery
If you read this blog regularly, you’ll know I often end a post with the words… I’ll put it on my To Do list, prompting comments as to...
Wendy Percival
May 14, 20212 min read
Finished!
I’ve been excited to complete a family history project close to my heart this week – it’s not often in family history we can say we’ve...
Wendy Percival
May 7, 20213 min read
A memorial bear
My Dad’s old teddy inadvertently led me to a family history discovery this week. But, as is often the case in these situations, it raised...
Wendy Percival
Apr 30, 20213 min read
Scandal at the Post Office
How ironic that the very week I’d been researching a branch of my family who’d been postmasters (see Elusive Ellisdons), the next episode...
Wendy Percival
Apr 23, 20212 min read
Elusive Ellisdons
In my quest to establish the a link between the Ellidson branch of my family and my husband’s Ellistons (see Shock Shared Ancestor), I...
Wendy Percival
Apr 16, 20212 min read
Shock shared ancestor!
It’s always nice to make contact with people researching the same family as yourself and establish you have a common ancestor. But it...
Wendy Percival
Apr 9, 20212 min read
Ancestry Anomalies
I don’t understand Ancestry – as in the online family tree builder, not the concept of discovering our ancestors. Perhaps I’ve just never...
Wendy Percival
Apr 2, 20213 min read
Aftermath & Mystery
On #AncestryHour this week (Twitter, Tuesdays 7-8pm BST) I mentioned my blog post, Tragedy & Loss, about the death of my 2x...
Wendy Percival
Mar 26, 20212 min read
Tragedy & Loss
In my post, From ankle deep to knee deep, I discovered my great-grandmother Eliza Roberts, had been only 13 when her mother died. Well,...