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Maiden Names in Genealogy
Most of us know our mother’s maiden name. It’s one of those little items that’s in our consciousness, and often used as a security question for passwor...
The Importance of Heraldry
Heraldry, or armoury, to give it its proper name, is one of the oldest European ways of differentiating families. Its origins lie in the Middle Ages, when sy...
Using the US Registry of War Ration Books
Every little piece of information adds to a family history. When you hit a dead end you can be casting around for other sources that can help you find a way...
How Record Keeping Changed in the 19th Century
Record keeping altered drastically in the 19th century. Although the change is thought of as a product of the Victorian age, it actually precedes the accessi...
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Genealogy and a Criminal Past
Finding that you have a criminal among your ancestors can come as a shock. Most of us are law-abiding people, so the revelation of someone in the family who�...
Family History: What to Ask Your Older Relations
Older relatives can be an excellent source of family history information. Not only will they remember their own parents and grandparents, they can recall wha...
How to Deal With Conflicting Dates in Genealogy.
One of the most frustrating things that can happen when you’re researching family history is a conflict in dates, most commonly for births, but also someti...
The Importance of Wills in Genealogy
When looking at a family tree most people start at the obvious sources – census records or births, marriages and deaths. There’s certainly a great deal t...
The Holocaust and Family Records
It’s accepted fact that millions of people were killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust of World War Two. The vast majority were Jews, but there were also Gyp...
What Welsh Surnames Can Tell Us
Welsh surnames can seem quite confusing. Relatively speaking there are few of them, far fewer than in England, for example. But there’s a meaning to the su...
Were Fleet Marriages Taken as Legal?
Fleet marriages form a curious little anomaly in the history of marriage in England. They only happened in a few specific areas and then only really from 169...
What Gravestones Can Tell Us
At one time or another everyone’s walked through a graveyard. Most people, though, might not pay much attention to what’s written on the gravestones and...
Employing a Foreign Genealogist
If you’re researching your family tree and need to look into a branch that was overseas, you might want to consider hiring a genealogist based in that coun...
Ancestors in Other British Colonies
There was a time when the British Empire was huge, and much of the map of the world was pink. Those days might be long gone, but when you’re tracing your f...
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