Family History
Medieval Names 1450-1600
A look at a website drawing together a list of Medieval names, fascinating for the family historian
Read MoreFamily History and Evernote
Family history involves collecting, organizing and retrieving masses of disparate data, is an enormous task. Seeing connections across pieces of data is vital but difficult to manage. Family historians using cloud computing can use Evernote to store and search material by tagging data, making it incredibly easy to retrieve.
Read MoreFamily History and Cloud Computing
How can use ‘cloud computing’ to aid your family history research. Think of the volume of data you have stored about the history of your family. Are you sure your data is backed up and retrievable in the face of a meltdown of your PC? How can you collect research data on your tablet / laptop and have it synced to your PC?
Read MoreForenames and Family History Research.
Use forenames in family history research to provide new clues and insights, to help break down those brickwalls that we all meet in our research
Read MoreThe Intriguing Parish Chest
What intriguing documents did your parish chest hold? For family historians the parish chest holds a wealth of social details that give context to your own family history story
Read MoreMilitary Timelines For Family History.
Timelines can be very useful to family historians when trying to find a simple way to view the chronology of what is often a complicated event
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 MoreInsolvency and Bankruptcy in C19th
Bankrupt or Insolvent, what did it mean to our C19th ancestors?
Read MoreUsing Livery Company Records
Did your family work in the City of London? If so, then they may well have been a member of one of the guilds or livery companies
Read MoreRemoval Act 1795
The Removal Act of 1795 is of great significance for family historians because for the first time it was easier for people to move away from their place of birth but did it help them out of poverty is another question all together.
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