Family History Secrets

If you haven't checked out my new "Bite-size Blog"   yet, you might like to nip across and have a look at some of the l...

Scandal, bigamy, double lives, tragedy, mystery, criminality – I've uncovered them all, and more, in the four years I've been wri...

With Christmas around the corner, it's that time of year when we peer over our shoulders to look back at the months past. And glanci...

Someone said during Twitter's #AncestryHour recently that writing a blog post often took her a long time as information gaps suddenly o...

The wonderful BBC TV comedy Dad's Army may have left us with an impression that WW2's Home Guard was a group of bungling amateurs...

You know how it is – the photo album full of photos and no names. But how about this? A named photograph, of a Mr Baker (yes, great, it mat...

In a departure from the usual content of this blog – my current dabbling in my family history research – I'd like, on this occasion, to ...