I've written before about Sarah Nathan who married Sol, the brother of my great grandfather in London in 1902.  Her parents were Nathan ...

Source For more information on members of my family who attended this school, see Monday's post.

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...

I've blogged about my research on my Denyer ancestry before, but I thought I would create a summary post of what I have found so far. ...

Just because the shoe fits, doesn't mean it belongs to Cinderella. When a marriage document indicates that someone was 21 when the...

It is time for me to share my selection for the Fourth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge  hosted by West in New England . Find a poe...

Many media sources have recently printed the following fact: Hillary Duff is the closest US celebrity relative to the Queen. They share Ed...

Exploring FindMyPast  with my new subscription, I decided to look up some Denyer baptisms. This is another instance where I have already con...

Readers of Part One , where I looked at FindMyPast's marriage records, may have enlarged the image of the search results and noticed th...

FindMyPast - the British genealogy website, is expanding to America . They currently have a deeply discounted World Subscription rate, and...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my proje...

If there are any British readers of this blog, Happy Guy Fawkes Night Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I know I said I was taking a vac...

I've extended one branch a generation further back this week.  I was inputting some surnames into London Lives , a new website recently ...

Sign: The London Dining Rooms - Good Breakfasts & Teas On the right is my great grandfather, Barney Newmark. On the left is his sister,...

Here's a 1923 silent film, from the official YouTube channel of the British Monarchy . The Duchess of York later became Queen Elizabeth...

A few days ago I mentioned that the UK Passenger Lists had been added to Ancestry.UK, and I provided Ancestry's description of the datab...

Ancestry.UK yesterday added incoming passenger lists (1878-1960). This database is an index to the Board of Trade’s passenger lists of shi...

Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, begins Friday night at sunset. But for this post, I’m taking you back 108 years to 1899: “Jews Cele...

Last Tuesday (6 days ago) around 7 am (Central Daylight Time) or 1 pm (British Summer Time) I went online and ordered a marriage certifi...