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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...

Using Marriage Certificates for Genealogy Research

Along with birth and death certificates, marriage certificates are the real meat and potatoes of genealogy research. One of the great joys of them is that th...

Baptism Records and Tracing Your Ancestors

Births had to be registered from 1837 onwards. However, in most cases you'll be able and desire to go back beyond that date, but you'll need to start digging...

Cremation Records and Tracing Your Family History

To those familiar with the idea of Vikings having funeral pyres for their dead, or the practice in India, it might come as a shock to learn that the first cr...

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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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