Author Archives: kate

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 the end … Continue reading →

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 – and although the new site is useful, there are … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 before: you … Continue reading →

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 sources… and it’s well worth … Continue reading →

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 21st century, is a … Continue reading →

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 thirteenth century: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/

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 published), and can … Continue reading →

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 you: http://www.infoplease.com/calendar.php Please note: this is … Continue reading →