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Looking back, looking forward
Well, it’s certainly been a weird year! But some things don’t change – it’s about now we look back at what we’ve done and think about...

Wendy Percival
Dec 18, 20202 min read


It's panto time!
It’s panto time! Oh no, it’s not! Oh yes, it is! Well... sort of. I read that there are a number of socially distanced pantomimes being...

Wendy Percival
Dec 11, 20202 min read


Finding Bessey - one letter out!
Don't you love it when you knock down a brick wall by coming at it sideways? I decided it was time to have another bash at tracing the...

Wendy Percival
Dec 4, 20202 min read


Another "out-of-wedlock" story
There's been no breakthrough so far in finding the birth record of my 2x great-grandmother Emma Shelley (see last week’s Illegitimacy &...

Wendy Percival
Nov 27, 20202 min read


Illegitimacy & Mystery
I’m currently listening to the audiobook version of In the Family Way, by Jane Robinson. It’s a fascinating account of illegitimacy and...

Wendy Percival
Nov 20, 20203 min read


A shared history - #WWI and beyond
Alfred Joseph Saunders, my husband’s grandfather – pictured here with his wife Caroline and daughter Eunice Irene – joined the Royal...

Wendy Percival
Nov 13, 20203 min read


Remembrance roll call - #WWI
Like most people, I'm sure, my family history's wartime and military research has had mixed fortunes - some successes, occasional...

Wendy Percival
Nov 6, 20202 min read


The power of an image
I’m excited to be able to share with you a wonderful photograph of The Booth family – the family into which my gran’s cousin, “Nellie”...

Wendy Percival
Oct 30, 20202 min read


Unravelling the Booth Brothers mystery
I'd imagined that this week I would follow on neatly from last week’s post about Charles Booth (see: Mystery and Death), who sadly died...

Wendy Percival
Oct 23, 20202 min read


Mystery and death
Sometimes during family history research you make assumptions – not unreasonable assumptions – but, as we all know, what we discover...

Wendy Percival
Oct 16, 20203 min read