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Why I do genealogy: a personal manifesto
Last night, as I was tucking in for what I hoped would be a quiet evening at home delving into my family tree (I know none of you ever does that, right? 😉 ) I saw an e-mail notification popping … Continue reading
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Why YOU should do the #RussianDollChallenge?
Some of you may have heard of the #RussianDollChallenge, a hashtag I created on Twitter in September 2018 to discuss direct female ancestral genealogies. And why, you may ask, did this become a popular (dare one say, trending!) topic and, … Continue reading
Posted in Birth, England, Famous Genealogy, Genealogy, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Women
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Are you going to THE Genealogy Show 2020? Because I am!
UPDATE: This event was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020. Check the website linked below for further information and updates about the next edition. This is definitely the week of announcements! OK, this may no longer be … Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, Events, Genealogy, THEGenShow2019, THEGenShow2020
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Family Tree Live – here I come!
UPDATE: This event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020. Check the website linked below for further information and updates. This is definitely the week of exciting announcements (and this may not be the last – hint … Continue reading
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See you at the Salon de la Généalogie Paris 15!
I am extremely pleased to announce that I have been invited to talk at the next edition of the Salon de la Généalogie Paris 15. The event, the largest of its kind in the French-speaking world this side of the … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, DNI!
One of the least-used resources of family research in Spain, and yet perhaps one of the most valuable, is the DNI, the acronym of the Documento Nacional de Identidad (National Identity Document). This small piece of plastic, which nowadays features … Continue reading
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Discovering a new Italian family mystery… down under!
Lately my family research has mainly focused on my Italian ancestors, and I’ve been extremely busy adding every single birth, marriage and death recorded in my great-grandmother’s village under the civil registry collection on FamilySearch, which covers the period 1866 … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Emigration, Genealogy, Marriage, San Marzano Oliveto, World War II
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William Samuel Morris (1925-1941)
Some of the stories in my family history are so graphic, so poignant, that they will always remain a fixture of my mind and my imagination. Such is the case of my grandmother’s cousin, William Samuel Morris, who died in … Continue reading
Posted in 1911 Census, 1939 UK Register, Death, Genealogy, Herefordshire, Ships, World War II
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The San Marzano Oliveto war memorial
When my 17 year-old great-grandmother emigrated from Italy to America in late 1912, she could hardly have imagined that in less than three years her homeland would take part in the First World War – a conflict which was to … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Genealogy, Italy, Killed In Action, War, World War I
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Victorian mourning
We are all familiar with the quintessential image of Queen Victoria in her widow’s weeds, dressed from head to foot in deep mourning for her beloved Albert, the Prince Consort. “Why may the earth not swallow me up?”, wrote an … Continue reading
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