Updates – Lawford
I’ve finished transcribing the earlier parish register (1558-1764) for Lawford in north-east Essex. It’s right by the Suffolk border, so you might f...
Author: Helen Barrell
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017
It’s a week until Britain’s biggest family history fair, Who Do You Think You Are? Live, kicks off at Birmingham’s NEC. There’s a wealth...
Did Jane Austen fake a marriage?
Ahhh, see, I told you that notes left in parish registers are endlessly fascinating! Not only is it possible (at least I think so) that Charlotte Brontë got the...
Events
Saturday 3rd December 2016, 10am-2pm What: Book-signing at St Mary’s Christmas St Nicholas Fayre Where: St Mary’s Church, Bearwood, B66 4BX Entry fee: None! Jus...
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017
News! I’m doing a talk at Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017 at the NEC in Birmingham. In “Turn your family tree surprises into a book”, I...
The Fingringhoe skeleton
Have you heard “The Reclusive Skeleton of Fingringhoe” episode of Punt PI? In this Radio 4 series, comedian Steve Punt puzzles his way around cases ...
Guest blog: A Titanic survivor on the 1939 Register
A guest blog for Findmypast. My great-grandma’s cousin survived the Titanic – did he find peace afterwards, or was his life full of drama?
Guest blog: How a 100-year-old letter sparked a discovery in the 1939 Register
A guest blog for Findmypast. A letter written by my great-great-grandmother on Armistice Day in 1918 was full of clues for identifying my family. Would it unloc...
Guest blog: Multiple wives and a missing daughter: Scandalous family secrets in the 1939 Register
A guest blog for Findmypast. What happened to my grandma’s uncle, Ernest Baden Powell Field? And why did his marriages not quite match up with what I foun...
Interview: John Broom, author of “Fight the Good Fight”
With the First World War 100th anniversary commemorations ongoing, I’m welcoming John Broom, author of Fight the Good Fight: Voice of Faith from the First...