Rotterdam parish registers – with bonus Brits!
Quite by accident, I stumbled over the Stadsarchief Rotterdam site. It’s definitely worth having a look on here if you have merchant ancestors who go off-...
Category: Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)
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
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...
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: 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...
Guest blog: arsenic at Christmas
My Christmas guest blog for Find My Past. Arsenic at Christmas: a recipe for disaster.
The Strawbridges: a 1930s motorcycling family
Last year, I wrote about the headstones in St. George’s, Harborne, and mentioned the unusual monument to Freda Strawbridge, a young woman who died in a mo...
Review: 24 Hours in the Past
Rather like I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here crossed with Tony Robinsons’ The Worst Jobs in History, this four-episode living history series took ...
Review: The Game
I’ve lived in Birmingham for several years, long enough to get confused sometimes when my brain forgets what the new Bull Ring shopping centre looks like ...
A soldier’s photos from 1945
The 70th anniversary of VE Day seemed like a good time to blog about my grandad’s soldier photos from WW2 – mainly because, although there’s n...