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Wendy Percival
- May 28, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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,...