Category Archives: Famous Genealogy

What can death certificates tell you?

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

In our cold, modern, somewhat unsentimental western culture, death has become a taboo subject. While we are totally powerless to avoid it, we still feel rather uneasy when we discuss this particular subject with friends and relatives, as if by … Continue reading →

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Dora Carrington’s Family

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

Dora Carrington is perhaps best remembered for being associated with the bohemian, artistic Bloomsbury Group of the early 20th century. Although not a part of the Bloomsbury Group herself, Carrington knew some of group’s members intimately. The person who had … Continue reading →

Posted in 1911 Census, Birth, Death, England, Famous Genealogy, France, Genealogy, Herefordshire, Illness, Marriage, Women | 1 Comment

Tracing your ancestors… on the RMS Titanic

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

100 years ago today, the RMS Titanic set sail from the English port of Southampton, completing the first leg of a journey which would never be completed. Less than five days later, the largest ship in the world at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Argentina, Death, Emigration, England, Famous Genealogy, France, Genealogy, Ships, Spain, United States | 6 Comments

You’re A Lady, Not Toad Of Toad Hall!

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

Some months before ITV’s Downton Abbey was first released to the general public in Britain last year, I had already become fascinated by American heiresses who one way or other managed to become the wives of some of the wealthiest … Continue reading →

Posted in Cuba, Emigration, Engagement, England, Famous Genealogy, Genealogy, Louisiana, Marriage, Property, United States, Women | 6 Comments

Older Mums

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

Last week I purchased the latest issue of Family Tree magazine. Great! One of the articles this moth’s issue includes discusses 19th-century women who became mothers late in life, a somewhat common phenomenon which has again become recurrent these days … Continue reading →

Posted in Birth, Death, England, Famous Genealogy, Galicia, Genealogy, Women | 1 Comment

Annie the cook

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

I am notorious within my family for being a bad cook. Cooking a sad plate of pasta or heating up a frozen pizza is probably as far as I’ll be able to go – unless a particular situation requires a … Continue reading →

Posted in 1841 Census, 1861 Census, 1871 Census, 1881 Census, 1891 Census, 1901 Census, Dorset, Downstairs staff, England, Famous Genealogy, Genealogy, Herefordshire, Kington, Work | Leave a comment

The Family of Edgar Degas: genealogy through portraits

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

Having a painter in the family before the age of photography must have been a comfortable and convenient method of perpetuating one’s portrait into posterity. At least, that is what one can appreciate when analyzing French impressionist painter Edgar Degas‘s … Continue reading →

Posted in Famous Genealogy, France, Genealogy, Italy, Louisiana | 1 Comment

A national hero in the family tree

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

After encountering only peasants and servants in the family tree, you can imagine how pleasant it is to find a genealogical link with a man who could well be considered a national hero. The courage and patriotism that he, Luis … Continue reading →

Posted in Death, Famous Genealogy, Galicia, Genealogy, Ships, Spain, United States, War | 4 Comments

The legend (and family) of Lizzie Borden

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

“Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks; when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” The gruesome lyrics of a children’s song about one of the most infamous murders which took place in … Continue reading →

Posted in Death, England, Famous Genealogy, Genealogy, Murder, United States | 29 Comments

Reviving dead lines and the Titanic

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Daniel (@DSRGenealogist)

Have you ever come across a line in your family which you thought had become extinct? Have you ever assumed a distant relative passed away without having had children? Ever felt like that person attached to a solitary name hanging … Continue reading →

Posted in 1841 Census, 1851 Census, Birth, Colwall, Death, England, Famous Genealogy, Genealogy, Herefordshire, Marriage, Worcestershire | Leave a comment