Ancestors… Beyond 101. 24 Oct 202513 Aug 2025 Why go beyond collecting the basics, names, dates and places? In my early days of research, I was interested in adding names to my tree. Online you may have come…
Ancestors… A Genealogical Odyssey. 10 Oct 202512 Aug 2025 Where do I start? What jumps into my mind is the 1969 song, “Where Do You Go to My Lovely” by Peter Sarstedt, especially the last two lines of the…
Ancestors… The Moon. 21 Jun 20242 Jun 2024 What has the moon got to do with it all? I am writing this story in mid-April 2024. Over the past 18 or so months, I have been on a…
Ancestors… Learning. 7 Jun 202428 May 2024 I have been researching my ancestors for way over 40 years. If you have read my previous blogs you would already know how I started. Self-Taught. My own learning about…
Discover… State Pension: UK 15 Dec 202321 Nov 2023 Question? How did family history assist me with applying for the state pension in the UK? Why? Having lived and worked in the UK for more than 10 years, the…
Ancestors… Great Grandparents: What I Found. 8 Dec 202316 Nov 2023 There you have it. Insights into my seven great grandparents. I am sure if you have read them you would have realized that the words are my interpretations of them.…
Ancestors… Somebody I Use To Know… Part three. 21 Jul 202322 Jul 2023 Disclaimer. In my writings here, I will be honest and very blunt about my impressions, in each part of “Somebody I Use To Know”. My parental grandfather was born in…
Ancestors… Scottish Naming Conventions. 26 May 202322 Jul 2023 When looking at Scottish records, you will come across some interesting names. You would have seen this in my blog “Adding Context” published on 7 February 2023. I use this…
Ancestors… How & Why I started? Part Two… 3 Feb 2023 Slow Progress… (continued). As previously mentioned in the previous blog, “How & Why I Started? Part One", my progress was very slow. With limited time and resources available, like many…
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