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North Hampshire Tithe Maps for Basingstoke and Dean
Family history in North Hampshire? These tithe maps may be just what you need to solve a few puzzles in your family tree
Read MoreCharles Dickens knew Florence Nightingale
We so often study the lives of famous people and their activities in isolation, what is intriguing is when you find how the lives of these people were meshed together
Read MoreHistory Repeating Itself Theme
A New theme emerging does history repeat itself and what does that mean for family history?
Read MoreBattle of Bull Run 1861 American Civil War Animated Map Snippet
Maps migration and the American Civil war an intriguing snippet of the possible connections and resources available t family historians. The American Civil War did it touch your family history, if you had family members and ancestors in America at the time of the civil war what were they doing and did they sign-up?
Read More“Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”
What links Santa Claus, Mark Twain and the village of Sleepy Hollow?
Read MoreLondon Library 1841
The London Library is an inspirational institution with many intriguing connections to people such as Charles Dickens
Read MorePublication of a Christmas Carol…19 Dec 1843
Charles Dickens a Chrismas Carol, what inspires philanthropy and what was it’s impact on family history…published 19 December 1843
Read MoreNew Zealand leads the way with Women’s Vote 1893
Did New Zealand lead the way in women’s rights and suffrage?
Read MoreChristmas takes off in the Victorian Period particularly in the 1840’s
Christmas when did it take-off?
Read MoreIntriguing Snippets
Take a look at our concise and continuously updated Intriguing Snippets of History with the family historian in mind…
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