The Somerset and Dorset Family History Society (SDFHS) are running a project to find family photos depicting local people and places. There are already 4,500 donated images and they will…
In the recent Researching Female Ancestors podcast episode with Emma Jolly we talked about how women can be harder to find but records do exist. Topics include military pensions, DNA…
In the recent Researching Occupations podcast episode with Sophie Kay we talked about many different occupations, effects upon a person’s health, death, the place they lived and more. Finding and…
In the recent Researching Welsh Ancestors podcast episode with Gill Thomas we discussed the following subjects: Records: their locations and contents The difficulties and benefits of researching in Wales The…
Following on from the recent Journeys into Genealogy podcast interview with Julie Goucher, here are tips, recommendations and resources for starting (or continuing) your own Italian research journey. Julie has…
In the recent Journeys into Genealogy podcast interview with Mish Holman we discussed several different resources for researching theatre ancestors. This blog post brings them together alongside some tips from…
Why visit London Metropolitan Archives? The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is fully open for visitors as of October 2021. I did an online search and found some of my ancestors'…
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…
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…
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…