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Pumpie the Elephant

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:09/06/2020
• Post category:My family
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The Cattleys of Ealing and Russia It all started with one of my blog posts about Oswald in June 2019... My great, great grandfather Oswald Cattley led a very interesting…

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Inherited Emotions and Ancestral Healing

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:04/06/2020
• Post category:Epigenetics / Inherited Emotions
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The emotions of our parents, and those of our grand-parents, can unwittingly become ours - the fears, anger and grief that they may have experienced, and even their addictions, could…

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Solving Mysteries in your family history

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:15/05/2020
• Post category:Genealogy Tips
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I have helped lots of my clients with solving mysteries, big and small, in their family trees and I thought it may be useful to explain how I did it.…

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5 Family History things to do whilst on lockdown

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:23/04/2020
• Post category:Family Medical History / Genealogy Tips / Interviews / My family / Photographs
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Did you know that family history is the 8th most popular thing that people are doing / or would like to do during lockdown? I hope you find some of…

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What is a one name study?

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:09/03/2020
• Post category:My family / one name study
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A one name study is research into all occurrences of a single surname and its variants. It could be focused on a geographical area (country/county/area) or the descendants of a…

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RootsTech London 2019

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:02/11/2019
• Post category:Genealogy Conferences
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RootsTech London 2019 is the first family history conference I have attended. It also coincided with Comicon so that made for an entertaining DLR ride to ExCel and in ExCel…

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Family Medical History and Genealogy

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:22/10/2019
• Post category:Family Medical History / Genealogy Tips
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It is extremely useful to know of any illnesses or diseases that our ancestors lived with, which contributed to, or caused their deaths. Conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and…

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Progressing past brick walls when compiling family history

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:25/09/2019
• Post category:Brick Walls / Genealogy Tips / My family / Research
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Most of my family history research has gone straight back through my direct ancestors, in some cases to 6 generations without any problems. I have encountered brick walls for some…

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Distant cousins

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:11/09/2019
• Post category:My family / Research
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My personal family history journey has taken me, and continues to take me, in lots of different directions. I have found and connected with several distant cousins recently and have…

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St Petersburg – The Sussex Connection

• Post author:Emma Cox
• Post published:07/08/2019
• Post category:My family / Records Office / Research
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Looking into some of my family history I recently discovered some 19th century records were held by my local records office. My family only have lived in Sussex for a…

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