Always read every bit of information in a Parish Register. You never know what you will find. Here I take you through a brief history of Parish Registers before showing you how a little side-note demolished my brick wall. Parish Registers Before civil registration started in 1837, life events of our ancestors were recorded in
Where your most recent ancestors lived isn’t necessarily where they started. This is the story of a family whose ancestry was firmly in Portsmouth back to the early 1800s but whose roots were in Surrey. Our family is the Blandford family; a family with a long military history. From James Moorsom Ernest Blandford who served
Most people have a box or two of old photographs lying in a cupboard or gathering dust in the attic; some you’ll know as grandma, grandpa or great auntie Doris, some will bring back happy memories and make you smile, but there are always a few faces that no-one knows. When my grandmother died she
