A couple of days ago, someone asked on one of the groups I am on, how people find information to fill out their family history. She was researching the plain births, marriages and deaths information for the family, but wanted a little more colour, some information to bring the time period to life. I have […]
Once upon a time, in another life before I had children, I worked for the ship classification society Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. My colleagues were an interesting and talented lot, and so it is no surprise that they have gone on to writing careers and successful publication. I used to spend lunchtimes with the Shipping […]
The Heralds’ Visitations are records of visits to various places to record family genealogies, changes to families, made by the College of Arms heralds. They can provide useful information, but any researcher has to understand that the information is fallible. Just because it was recorded three centuries ago, Aunt Agatha’s information about the family is […]
The Internet Archive is quickly becoming a wonderful resource for the family historian. By searching the internet archive you may come across family genealogies, histories for particular towns, and ancient publications with births, deaths and marriages in them. One of these is the Gentleman’s Magazine, which ran from 1731 to 1922. It is a very […]