I am a Connector! What’s a connector? Isn’t that a bit of pipe that connects one bit of pipe to another bit of pipe? Yes, it could be. But what I do is to connect the present to the past. . . . I’m a Genealogist. Last week I was talking to an old colleague
Having listened to me go on about the importance of newspapers as a source for family history my friend issued me with a challenge. “Find out as much as you can, about a family, from a newspaper article”. Challenge accepted! I decided to look for something in Surrey and, using the British Newspaper Archives, typed the
Family history research can sometimes be a little like unraveling a ball of wool; you never know what you will find among the twists and turns. I like it like that. I like to go beyond names and dates and find out what was happening in the world so that I can try to put
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