After writing about some mysterious spelling changes of surnames for my last 52 Ancestors blog, I went on to think about those who...

Week 15 – How do you spell that? This week’s prompt immediately struck a chord with me, as I frequently have the impression that my...

Week 14 – Check it out. This week’s prompt could (should?) be a mantra for all genealogists and family historians, whatever their level...

Week 13 – Sisters. The final prompt for Women’s History Month is “sisters”, and my choice fell on one of my great-aunts who seemed always...

Week 12 – Joined together. In week 8 I wrote about a couple who were apparently unable to marry because of the social norms of the day,...

Week 11 – Flowers. Naming girls after flowers was particularly popular in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, and unsurprisingly my...

Week 10 – Worship. For the second week of Women’s History Month, I look at two sisters whose place of marriage came as a surprise to me...

Week 9 – Females. March is Women’s History Month, and in consequence this week’s prompt is quite simply “females”. Rather than chose a...

Week 7 – Landed. Just before the First World War my great-grandfather landed an unexpected job thanks to his wife - and passed it on to...

Week 6 – Maps. Some years ago, my husband came across an 1896 publication of the Société Neuchâteloise de Géographie in a second-hand...

Week 5 – Branching Out. My 3x great-grandfather John Jones was born in Bath in 1791 and married Harriet Gibbs in 1813. They had five...

Week 4 – Curious This deliberately ambiguous prompt took me back to a very strange entry in a burial register we found while researching...

Week 3 – Favourite photo. As with Week 2’s “favourite find”, no single photo immediately sprung to mind with this week’s prompt. I could...

Week 2 – Favourite Find. At pretty much any point on my genealogical journey if you asked me for my “favourite find” to date I would...

Week 1 - Foundations. 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is a genealogy challenge which has been running for a few years now and which I decided –...

Along with my husband I first started actively researching my family history in 1992, and whereas my oldest aunt (an unmarried lady born...

Motivated by my success in tracing siblings and cousin connections of my Irish great-grandmother Jane Nesbitt, I turned my attention to...

First and foremost, this is not a “how-to” guide (I’ll leave that to the experts), but rather a look at how I’ve been able to use DNA...

In my last year of primary school, our class teacher came up with an unusual – and memorable – lesson on Victorian England which involved...

My newest venture is this family history blog, which will include posts under the following headings: General family history Yes, a...