Family Tree Blogs

A useful tip from the Wolverhampton Family History Facebook group:

“Did you know you can also search UK census records by address on Find My Past? Just choose the census year from the A – Z, choose Address S […]

My grandparents, Frank Charles Spicer (1901 – 1963) and Annie Griffiths (1900 – 2000) on their wedding day – 10 November 1924.  And the cake.

I’ve been looking at old wills this week, and thought I’d share a few thoughts with you.

We often think when we can’t find a will “Oh, they can’t have had much to leave.”  But this isn’t always the […]

The Blog and I return, somewhat shamefaced in the knowledge that we haven’t updated for well over a year.  This is, in part, due to yet another annus horribilis  – the details of which I shall not bore you with. H […]

Week 5 of the  course returned to sources, and considered how local and general histories can flesh out your family tree.

As followers of this blog are only too well aware, this is something that I always […]

Week Four of the course considered the Genealogical Standard of Proof and also DNA testing.

The Standard of Proof is important – in fact I wrote a page about this some time ago –  and I thought that this was […]

So – week 3 of the course is down and dusted.

This week the course tackled major sources – church, civil and religious records, looked at the types of records that might be held in physical archives and […]

This week the course addressed ‘Effective Search Techniques’, without first addressing what we might be researching, or indeed why.

This began by advising the creation of a timeline of events, creating a family […]

I mentioned on 3rd February that I’d signed up on the FutureLearn online course “Genealogy: Researching Your Family Tree”, and that I’d give weekly updates and comments on the course.

So – here we are at the […]

Only last night I managed to solve a problem that had been bugging me for years.  My grandmother had told me that a relation of hers (and she didn’t know the name) had kept a farm on Goldthorn Hill, about half a […]

A Grovelling Apology

Apologies for the radio silence over the last twelve months. It really has been a dreadful year for me, in which I’ve had very little time at all. However, things should have calmed down by […]

Since my last post, I’ve been looking into the government’s much-vaunted wills & probate site at www.gov.uk/search-will-probate.

Wills can prove useful in tracing our ancestors, or finding out about their lives […]

Lord only knows I’m not a technophobe, but I must admit defeat when it comes to using our new Tablet. I mean, my fingers are hardly big and clunky, but when it comes to selecting one from a list of links, I’ve got […]

Sometimes I look at the overflowing bookshelves (not to mention the piles of books that either need shelving or form the ‘To Be Read’ pile), and think that I really, really need to be brutal and dispose of some of […]

The final day of the Blog’s Calendar brings you wordpress – a site which enables you to create your very own website.  Wordpress is, in my opinion, the easiest site to use if you’ve never created a website […]

Almost Christmas:  and today’s Advent Calendar link to Tribal Pages will enable to you to create your own online family tree, which you can make private or public, add photographs to, and even list your […]

It’s always exciting to be able to find old photographs of places where our ancestors lived or worked: the excellent site “Images of England”, which has photographs of all listed buildings at the turn of the […]

Yesterday the Blog brought you a link to the Plantagenet Roll: today’s link, in similar vein, is to Cracroft’s Peerage – a free site listing all baronetcies and peerages created in the British Isles since the […]

Only four more sleeps until Christmas – and today the Blog brings you a link to “The Plantagenet Roll”.  This contains family trees of the descendants of King Edward III up until 1911 (when the Roll was […]

Ever wondered on what day of the week Great Aunt Maud was married, or on what date Easter fell in 1763?  The following link, to a Perpetual Calendar, will work all this out for […]