THEME Emigration and Immigration
Wellcome Trust Mapping Britain’s Genealogy
The Wellcome Trust’s map of British Genealogy reveals some fascinating insights into the DNA make up of the British Isles and heralds a whole new area of scientific and historical research. Just how Anglo Saxon are we? Go and see for yourself at The Royal Society’s summer exhibition.
Read MoreBritish Home Children Canada Resources
When searching in your family history for a missing child, consider looking at records for The British Home Children to Canada databases, or you can add your own data to an ever growing list of children
Read MoreMigration of Indians to the Colonies
The Indian indentured labour programme emerged after the abolition of slavery and sent over a million workers to British colonies alone
Read MoreThe Disaster of the Second Fleet 1789
Any settlers of New South Wales from the second fleet, must have been a hardy lot to survive the appalling journey they endured. Just what went wrong?
Read MoreFamily Home of Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 at Glover House in 1864
Thomas Blake Glover an intriguing influence on the Meiji Restoration. mining, ship-building and Mistubishi with his family home in Aberdeen.
Read MoreCemetry Records
Cemetery records provide fascinating information for both the family and social historian. Explore many resources to help you track down lost relatives
Read MoreMigration of Nightingale Nurses
The migration of the Nightingale nurses, allowed the excellent standards and practises of their training to be disseminated throughout the world
Read MoreInternal Migration
Internal Migration As family historians, one of our objectives is to try to determine where our ancestors originally came from. Another is to try and make sense of and follow their movements. We all have ‘lost’ ancestors, who seem to disappear or pop up in unexpected places! Understanding the social history helps us to make…
Read MoreHow did the Jamestown colony survive?
How did the Jamestown Colonists survive? They went in search of finding their fortunes, full of hope and ambition. The reality was much harsher and more difficult than they could have imagined. Find out here how they survive their rials and tribulations.
Read MoreCaptain John Smith C17th Capitalist?
The name of Captain John Smith, is, in the minds of many British people intrinsically linked to ‘Pocahontas’ , his native American saviour. Beyond this connection though, his writings on the settlement of Virginia are quite vigorous and erudite and he could be judged as having a very positive influence on how the New England…
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