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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!

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...

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Dec 18, 20202 min read

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...

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Dec 11, 20202 min read

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...

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Dec 4, 20202 min read

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

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Nov 27, 20202 min read

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

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Nov 20, 20203 min read

Alfred Joseph Saunders, my husband’s grandfather – pictured here with his wife Caroline and daughter Eunice Irene – joined the Royal...

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Nov 13, 20203 min read

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

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Nov 6, 20202 min read

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”...

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Oct 30, 20202 min read

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...

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Oct 23, 20202 min read

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

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Oct 16, 20203 min read