The government’s consultation on the storage and retention of wills: my response
I use wills all the time for my family history research, and for local history research too. They might come from county archives, or from the National Archives...
Category: Documents
It was all going well until the vicar decided to write everything in Latin…
I’m currently transcribing the earliest register for Harwich in Essex, which starts in 1559. It began well, but someone with bad handwriting took over a f...
The Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index – what it is and how to use it
I first heard about the Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index (EWBI) in a newsletter from the Essex Society for Family History. It’s a remarkable index compiled...
Whose body? A Plymouth Quaker mystery
Imagine how annoyed you’d be if the graveyard you were buried in was repurposed as a car park? Everyone else who had laid beside you for over a hundred ye...
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...
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...
Wills – how they’re indexed and where to find them
What? All that in one blog post? Erm… no… however, there’s been a couple of jumps forward with regards to the availability of wills and will i...