1 Family Tree Magazine 1984 - 2001 A B C - Ontario ... Slumbering in the Ground - Nainital Why is Nanna's Hair Red? Recording Memorial Inscriptions Aug Was Your Ancestor a pipemaker?

Articles of Interest in

Family Tree Magazine 1984 - 2001

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YEAR MONTH Some of the Topics of Interest

1984 Nov Australia: Here we come

The Hugenots

Sutton-in-Ashfield

1985 Jan-Feb Has it been done before?

The early settlers - UK

The Dalton Genealogical Society

Ipswich branch of the Suffolk Family

Plymouth: an itinerant town

Mar-Apr Vive la difference

The Cave Family History Society

Wilton the ancient capital of Wessex

May-Jun Wiltshire Family History Society

Jul-Aug Biggins vs Biggins

Portraits of brass

Madame Tussaud

The Ousley family of Dallas, Texas

Sep- Oct The Tussaud Inheritance

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1986 Jan-Feb Farrier Major Charles Avison

Sir Charles Hotham

The family of Algar and Alger

Joe Dines … the smiling footballer

Mar-Apr A big book with no pictures - The Domesday Book

May-Jun The ins and outs of the workhouse

Remember the Nore

Clan Forrester - rediscovered

The Foundling Hospital and its children

Family History from the Manor of Wakefield

Jul-Aug Burying the roots without a trace

The guild of one-name studies

Caraher Family History Society

Sep- Oct The National Archives of South Africa

Off to a new life - Miss Rye was the saviour

Finding the men who fought in the trenches

Charles and Mary Teviot

Nov For King and Kett

Dec The Glencross collection

The yeomen of England

The Parish loaf

The Templer Family tree

1987 Jan The Royal Air Force

Feb Working on the Land

The Genrle Palatines

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1987 Somerset & Dorset Family History Society

Postcards and Family History

Census Returns

Apr Hampshire Genealogical Society

Genealogy and Genetics

Working on the Land

What's in a Name

My Grandmother's Birthday Book

The Origins of Surnames

May Working on the Land

Roman Catholic Parish registers

Postmaster Tapping

Death and Family History


June An Insight into Welsh Surnames

A Thousand Years of De Burghs

The Plague in Eyam

English Merchants in Aleppo


July The Plague in Eyam

English Merchants in Aleppo

Aug The Plague in Eyam

Sep Working on the Land

Church of Ireland Parish Registers

Queen Victoria and Madame Tussaud

John Day - The Story of a Barnardo's Boy

Oct. Imry and Bolossy Kiralfy

The Advantage of the Scottish Records System

Bill Filby - a Busy American

Working on the Land

Nov Time to Repel Boarders

Hop Picking

The Earliest Liverpool Emigrants

Was Your Granfather German?

Dec The Earliest Liverpool Emigrants

A Pageant of Rhydderchs

Hop Picking

1988 Jan Care of Your Heritage Fabrics

Vermuyden and the Fens

Methodists

The Early Days of York (Toronto)

Feb Seeing Double

The Father of Savings Banks

The Victorian Agricultural Labourer

The AglabLeeds Russian Archive

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1988 News From Australia

Mormons and Genealogy

Presbyterian Church Records

A Victorian Called Fred Smith

Apr Seeing Double

Was Your Ancestor a Potwalloper?

Like a Skeleton?

May Circus Family Histories

Dead Men do Talk

Seeing Double

The First Settlement in Australia

June In search of the earliest Bassetts

In Other Lands to Die

July Slumbering in the Ground - Nainital

Why is Nanna's Hair Red?

Recording Memorial Inscriptions

Aug Was Your Ancestor a pipemaker?

My Ancestor was a Bastard

Men Who Changed the World

The Samuel Pepys Club

Rags to Riches and Back Again

Sep Henry William Hosell 1819-1854 "Surgeon RN"

Printed Sources of Naval Biography and History

The Goodleigh Militia and the Pasmore Family

Oct. Charcoal Burning

The Road to a Promised Land

The Goodleigh Militia and the Pasmore Family

The Kirk Session Records

Inoculation in the 18th Century

Sir John Clobery

Nov The Road to a Promised Land

Family History for Beginners

Beyond the Seas - Convicted Prisoners Transported to Austarlia

The Talbots of Eyam

John Siddall - Excise Officer

Dec Research Your Italian Ancestry

Identifying Heirloom Photographs

Not Just Our Grandfathers

1989 Jan Parting Sorrows - emigration from Britain to Australia 1839-1898

Memoires of 'Byrons Head'

Feb Jogging Along on a Tram - the postcard in the early 1900s

A Drunken Soldier Repents - militia in Australia

The Mining Biddulphs

Memoires of 'Byrons Head'

Proposals announced to modernize Registration System - bmd

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1989 Mar Memoires of 'Byrons Head'

The Australian Joint Copying Project

Basic German Sources

The Creation and Care of Documents - Paper in the Past

The Maltser - occupation

Apr Was your ancestor a potter?

The Australian Joint Copying Project

Basic German Sources

John Brogden & Sons

The Creation and Care of Documents - Parchment, vellum & ink

May George Sanger - Showman

The Creation and Care of Documents - preservation

Tollgate Keeper

Singularities of Bodfish

Three dragons for Daniel - Daniel Batcheler

June A Chronicle of the Damned

Was your ancestor a fisherman?

Across the sea to Ireland - re Robert Baillie

Our little village

Relationships - Bowen, Burnley, Grant, Hume, Nelson

Poet into Pilot - John Gillespie Magee

Jul Mormons and Family History

Musical Quakers - Sharon Temple by Shilrey Lancaster

Cypriot Roots

George Winslow's story

Gypsy Ancestry?

Aug DNA fingerprinting

My ancestor was a faker - i.e. John White

Prisoners of Dartmoor

By means of 'Mediums'

Sep Was your ancestor a smuggler?

Zeuthen alias Zenthon

South African probate records

Fisher or Rideout?

Oct. Was you ancestor a Strawplaiter?

Nonconformists and non-parochial registers

The parish clerk

Robert Young - an Eighteenth Century Philanthropist

German ancestry

Dec Was your ancestor a Pugilist?

Three Kings of Northumbria

Willa and ways - John & Mary Speechly

London's German churches

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1990 Feb Old Ocupations - Was your ancestor an FWK? {Frame-work Knitters)

The British in India

Who will buy my wife?

From Scotland to Upper Canada by way of Venezuela - by Doris Bourrie

Mar Old Ocupations - Was your ancestor an FWK? {Frame-work Knitters)

The story of a rare Surname - Macquillin; MacQuillin

Can you date heirloom photographs from children's clothes?

Apr Old occupations- The paper makers

Forenames to the Fore

A cave-dweller in Germany

Joseph Bridge - an Australian Pioneer

Wills and other probate records

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What is the IGI

Descendant tracing

Rogues and vagabonds

Discoveries at St. Mary Magdalene Church

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London's German churches

The Husker disaster

Escape to Barbados

To those who have been down to the sea in ships

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The illustrious Saltonstalls

Jewish ancestors in Britain

Machine breakers- the story of the Swing Riots

Phonetically speaking: the Soundex Coding System

Dialect - the heraldry of the poor

After Dunkirk

Aug Old occupations- a labour of love

Jewish ancestors in Britain

My Grandfather's Clock

Cholera - 1831-32

The impact of World War I

New Index needed

Computers for Family Historians

Sep Thanksgiving at Thorney

Robert Rollo Gillespie

Old occupations - Silk Ribbon Weaver

Anglo-German Family History

Oct. Seen but not heard - A study in childhood history

Brereton of Drury Lane

Exiles - Sarah Dixon

The Policeman


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1990 Nov Church building and demolition in East London

Family History for Beginners

The National Inventory of War Memorials

Old occupations - The Glover

At the Last - A look at the old British way of death

Dec Old occupations - Brickmaking

Treasures of the Parish Chest

My ancestor was a minister

Christmas Quizz and puzzles

Seen but not heard - A study in childhood history


Transportation of Convicts

1991 Jan Old occupations - The Proctor

Treasures of the Parish Chest

A Century under the RAJ - India Office Records

New Year Puzzles

Answers to the Christmas and New Year Puzzles

Were your ancestors "touched"?

Feb Old occupations - Northamptonshire lacemakers

Family History for Beginners - Census returns

Were your ancestors "touched"? Part 2

A puzzle solved - re the numbers on the East India Company


Mar Old occupations - Northamptonshire lacemakers

Parish sources - Part 1


Apr Parish sources - Part 2

From Willesden to Wipers

Old occupations - Northamptonshire lacemakers

1881 Census indexes of England and Wales

May Sweeps - the hearth

Three angles of the 1881 Census project


Public Sources - Don't take them for granted

Jane Eyre in London

June Old occupations - Silk-weavers of Spitalfields & Bethnal Green

Coroners' Bills

Scottish Research - Part 1

I remember 1916


Public Sources - Don't take them for granted - Part 2

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How I lost an illustrious ancestor



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1991 Aug Identifying published genealogical sources

Trials and tribulations of a one-namer

Old occupations - Domestic service


Sep The case of the missing air marshal

The Federation of Family History Societies

Old occupations - Domestic service - Part 2


Oct. Solomon's choice

The case of the missing air marshal - Part 2

Unlocking the past


Nov Smallpox and your ancestors

Beginning your family history - Part 2

From Black Watch to Royal Air Force

A cemetery survey and analysis

Dec Smallpox and your ancestors - Part 2

Noncomformist baptisms in Wales before 1837

Soldier ancestors and family legend

Using Bernau's Index

Old occupations - Chapman or Pedlar

1992 Jan Old occupations - Clogmakers

The Protestation - The Magna Carta of the 17th Century

Indexing the 1891 Census

Using Bernau's Index Part 2

Finding your Westminster ancestors

Feb Old occupations - Fullers & Tuckers

Beginning your family history

Henry Parker Such - Printer & Publisher

New ways of producing babies

What to read on Gloucestershire & Bristol Genealogy

Using Bernau's Index Part 3

Romany in the Family

Mar The Upper Crusts

Beginning your family history - Part 2

New ways of producing babies

Portsmouth City Records Office

Criminal Ancestors in England and Wales

Apr The Sorbs - A vanishing people

Early Marriages in England & Wales 1754-1837

Can you find me a Somerset mystery?

Lost Jewells

Keeping the records in the Parish

Old occupations - Nursing

May Old occupations - The Shipwright - Part 1

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1992 May Early Marriages in England & Wales 1754-1837

When Pontius was a pilot

Genealogical research in Canada

Flesh on the bones - The importance of death certificates

When I was a boy

Indexers and indexes- Derbyshire

June Old occupations - The Shipwright - Part 2

Experiences in the second Sikh War

When is a marine a soldier?

Indexers and indexes- Currer-Briggs Genealogical Index

Who said that hard work never hurt anyone?

Brookwood

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Irish ancestor - English records

Genealogical research in Central Canada

Ancient remedies - Somerset

Indexers and indexes- Sussex Burial Index 1813-1837

Education in family history

Aug Old occupations - Drovers

Indexers and indexes- Index of British-born people dying abroad

Genealogical research in Ontario

Across the Civil War divide

Educaton in family history - Part 2

Sep Old occupations - Drovers - Part 2

A short history of the Braithwaites

A tale of two widows

A return to the Romany camp

The Bedfordshire Parish Registers series

Oct. Old occupations - Wheelwrights

The Helen of the west

Against his crown and dignity

The mighty eighth

Parsons galore

Nov Old occupations - Leadminers

Alternative sources to civil registration in England and Wales

War memorials - a magnificent primary source

Tracing your nurse ancestors

Genealogical research in Canada

Pottles, quarterns, pecks and bushels

Indexes are just that

Dec The story of Hannah Snell

Alternative sources to civil registration in England and Wales- Part 2

Hatched, matched, dispatched

Old occupations - Leadminers - Part 2

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1993 Jan The story of Hannah Snell Part 2

Freeman of England & Wales

The Hartley Pit Disaster

Welsh Family History

Feb A Tale from the Tollbooth

Land Tax Assessments

Mortal Remains

Migration Project

Halifax's Pier 21

An Old Country Craft - Chair Bodging

Mar Grandmama came from Pápa

Old Occupations - Brushmaker or Tramp?

Appropriately Named

The Professional Approach

19th Century School Records

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They Showed No Mercy

The British Isles Genealogical Register

May In Search of Eliza

News from the Front

Wills, Wonderful Wills

Old Occupations - Chemists

June Old Occupations - Ironworkers

Encountering the Past

The Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

A check at the Co-op

Jul A Music Hall Family

Every Tom, Dick & Harry is named John

Old Occupations - Ironworkers Part 2

The stars did brightly Shine

The Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Part 2

Aug Family History from the Billhead

Old Occupations - Ironworkers Part 3

Emigrated to New Zealand

19th Century Lunatic Asylum Records

The Records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Part 3

Sep Gypsy Folk - Alice's Story

Old Occupations - Surgeons

Certificates of British Registry of Vessels

The Smiths show their Mettle

Oct. Getting on with it - Remembering nurse training in the 1930s

The King of the Gypsies

Old Occupations - Shoemaking

Sundry Malefactors - Trial, Execution & Confession

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1993 Nov How I Took the Census

Gypsies and Travellers

Dec At the Court of Scolds

The Chapman County Codes

A Photographic Mystery Story

Take a Pew - Part 2

Old Occupations - A Victorian View of the Governess

1994 Jan British 19th Century Census Returns

Roayl Navy Air Service

Victorian Photographers in the Family

Take a Pew - Part 3

Old Occupations - River Sailor

Feb Diary of a POW

Using Bernau's Notebooks - Part 3

Mar Were your ancestors privileged?

Diary of a POW

British 19th Century Census Returns Part 3

Finding Strangers in Guernsey - Part 2

Dead Ringers

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The High Toby

The British in the American Gold Rush

The Internatonal Genealogical Index - Part 1

May My Ancestor the Spy

Rabbits, Conigers and Warrens

Proving an Elizabethan Descent

The Internatonal Genealogical Index - Part 2

A Novel Approach to Identifying Photographs

Horses - Peril or Pleasure

June Maritime Pictures

Parish Registers

A Sticky End

Uncle John's Diary

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Parish Registers - Part 2

The Bonnor Brothers of Bristol

Aug Snap ! How to copy old Photographs

"Lord" George Sanger and other circus families

Parish Registers - Part 3

Edwardian Letter

The Frightful Fees - Part 3

Sep English and Welsh Probate Records - Part 1

My Grandfather Wrote This

Voyage to the Land Down Under

Search for a POW

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1994 Oct. Scottish Centenarians

English and Welsh Probate Records - Part 2

A Glimpse of Medieval Family Life

Old Occupations - the Combmaker

Nov Journal of a Victorian Country Clergyman

Maps for the Family Historian

Reverie on rag rug

One-name Studies

Quaker Records

Deadly Work

English and Welsh Probate Records - Part 3

Dec Marriages for Free

Irish Probate records

The Wedding Photograph

Inheritance

One Memorable Night

Quaker Records - Part 2

1995 Jan Was Mummy a Mummer?

The Motion Picture

Probate Records in Scotland, The Isle of Man & The Channel Islands

Great-Grandfather was a Clown

The Last Rebellion

What's in an Alias

Finding Deaths at Sea

Feb Forger, Thief and Fugitive

British Army Records

Old Occupations - The Inspector of Nuisances

Tracing the Footsteps of Daniel Benham

Bashin Boney's Baggonets

Making the most of what you've got or What's in an Age?

The National Monuments Record Centre

Royal Family and Peerage databases from John Bloore

Silversmiths and Hallmarks

The Rosary Cemetery

A British Memorial in Africa

Mar British Army Records Part 2

Old Occupations - Oyster Dredgers

Descended from Kings of SwedenTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

A letter from Hong KongRedcoats, White Nile and Blue Nile

The Thames Valley Police Museum

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A Pilgrimage to Ypres

British Army Records Part 3

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1995 Apr About local people

British Cemetery

Forgotten Royalty

Alexander McDonald, Arctic Doctor

May Mid 19th Century - Records of the Somerset Asylum

My Ancestor - the Cannibal

Old Occupations - the Baker

Local or Alternative sources - Part 1

The Picman Papers - Victorian Family Research

Some observations on Irish Family History research

Jun George Batchelor - the Gallant Hussar

Old Occupations - Copperas tradeon the Thames Estuary

Another time - other places


Island Treasure

The Archives of the British Post Office

Jul Spence Pedigree Forgeries

Old Occupations - The Agricultural Labourer

Dade Registers


The Genealogist's Reward

A database for One-name Study

The Adventures of Private John Collett - 1803-1823

Why not publish your family history

Aug Old Occupations - The Gamekeeper

What to do with the body - some Victorian solutions

Newspapers

Pandora's Box

All My Goods and Gear

Away for the day: Gone to the Exhibition

Clues from Cards

Memoirs and Diaries

Dr. Barnardo's Archives

Sep Great-Great-Great Grandfather's other job

Old Occupations - The Currier

Education in Ireland - c1830-1850

Historical Atlas of Canada

The Vandal Vicar

Newspapers - Part 2

Merchant Navy Records at Guildhall Library

Oct It's a Wise Child

Crime & Punishment in 18th Century Scotland

Britain's Black African Ancestors

Old Occupations - The Saddler

Alias: a Case of Concealment

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1995 Oct Your family tree from Epitaphs

Workhouse Ancestors - Part 1

A Glimpse at Trinidad's old families

Nov The word from Wales

Workhouse Ancestors - Part 2

Victoria and Eugénie - Our Secret

Improving old photographs with your PC

The Waddin' (The Wedding)

The Coke Stove

What's in it for the family historian

Dec Old Occupations - Further memories of nurse training - 1930

The Fedon Rebellion

Was you ancestor Armigerous - Part 1

Where there's no will

1996 Jan Was you ancestor Armigerous - Part 2

Old Occupations - The Victorian Head Gamekeeper

The Lanark Society Settlers

Filial Affection over the Centuries

Feb Scholars - A Lucky Find

British 1881 Census Project

Royal Navy records - Part 1

Searching the Mormons' Ancestral File Base

The Family Gathering

The Battle of Cape St. Vincent

Mar DNA Family Trees

Which medals did he win?

The Lee Brothers Photographic Studio Collection

Royal Navy records - Part 2

Researching in Belgium

Skeletons in the Cupboard?

Apr The Pook Affair

Grave Matters - Part 1

Record Repositories - Part 3

Making the Most of Local Archive Offices - Part 1

Quest for the Poor Persons of Lyng

May Old Occupations - Farriers

Kept Mistresses and Low Women

Grave Matters - Part 2

What's in a Surname?

The Duchess of Teck's Needlework Guild

What happens when I'm an Ancestor?

Does Anyone Want a Family

Making the Most of Local Archive Offices - Part 2

Australian Scene

The British Printer

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1996 Jun The Edwards Estate - Part 1

The Pook Affair - The Family response

Minute by Minute

St. Catherine's House - How it All Began

English Nonconformists - The More Common Records - Part 1

The Willerton Index

Diogenes Syndrome

The Baby's Good Send Off

Jul Jane Redgrave- The Adventuress

Old Occupations - "Life Below Stairs"

The Edwards Estate - Part 2


Two Soldiers of the Great Wars - Oscar Birtles, John Howard Andrews

Lost Your Relatives in the Colonies

The Birth of the Modern Census

Fieldwork & Frustrations

Georgian Clergy - bad example to futures generaions?

Aug Shakespeare - Who were his Ancestors

Kesingland - A Poppy by any other name

Tracing You Catholic Ancestors in England

The Edwards Estate - readers respond

Population, Economy and Family Structure

East India Military Academy

Family History and the Bicycle

Dalzell - an old Scottish Surname


A Soldier's Life

Sep Old Occupations - Canal Life

CFL's Pistol

The Trent Navigation Company's gauging tables

The Churching of Women

Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753

Finding Lost Cousins - Part 1

The Friends of the Pubic Record Office

Building on the Past

Genealogy in Portugal

The Brookland maid - wraith or reality

Oct Margaret Catchpole

The Irish in Jersey

Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753 - Part 2

Scandal at the Vicarage


The Edwards Estate - the never-ending saga

Nov Old Occupations - The Woolcomber

The Mystery of Hannah Lightfoot

Friendship from our Forefathers



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1996 A Cottage, a Firemark and a man called Thomas

Motoring Mystery


No deaths - No births - Clean Bill of Health

The National Index of Parish Registers

The Foundling who survived

Dec Royal Air Force 1918-1948

Of Sails, Ships, Storms and Stowaways - 6 generations

The Ancient Order of Foresters

From Blacksmith to Iron Master

Scotland and the slave trade

The Death of William Habgood

Copyright for Family Historians

Did Your Ancestor Vote?

Rose coloured glasses removed

1997 Jan Old Occupations - Perukemakers (wigmaker)

Norfolk Heretics

Who downed the Hampden?

Cuddled or Killed ?

Nonconformist church registers of southwest England

The First Fleet - part 1

School Records - Part 1

Family History in the Stars

Feb Do You have a Family Crest?

Family Photographic Index

How Much will Your descendants know about You?

The First Fleet - part 2

A Soldier Goes to War

The Strongbox of Empire - Shut

School Records - Part 2

John Dickson & Son - Gunmakers of Edinburgh

Surname History: a New Technique

Mar Old Occupations - The Trinity Weavers

Everyman at War

Letter from the Boer War

Parish Registers - how did they Survive?

Drawing Family Charts & Trees

The Black Death

Estate Papers and Genealogy

Apr My Printing Forebears

Australia for Two Guineas

Genealogy Gleanings from cases in Chancery & Admiralty

The Family Way

Maps for Beginners - Part 1

The Search of Baltic Roots

May Old Occupations - The Fisher-lassies of Yesteryear



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1997 The Life of William Milburn

Convict Ancestors - Don't always believe what you read

Maps for Beginners - Part 2

Barbados - some of its parishes, churches & monumental….

Jun Charles Bradlaugh

Circus and Fairground Ancestry

Ecclesiastical Courts

Pandora's Box

What Surname distribution can't tell us

Basic Records of Merchant Seamen - Part 1

Barbados - some of its parishes, churches & monumental….

Jul Irish Research

Bishop William Lort Mansel

Immigration into America - Ellis Island 1892-1954

Old Occupations - Soda Water Manufacturer

Basic Records of Merchant Seamen - Part 2

The Story of Hansard

Rustenburg - Resting Place of Forgotten Heroes

Aug Old Occupations - Elementary Teaching

A Voyage to China in 1806

Terror on the Marsh

Shorthand letters of the Rev. Robert Smalley

The defamed wife

Sep Honiton Lacemakers in the 1800s

Indian Fields

School Registers - Part 1

The Severest Punishment

Many Years too late

Granny, Where are you?

More on the Civil War divide

Reality in the Round

Oct Why Charles Foster?

Border marriages - Boon for "priests' & bane for researchers

Carved in stone - recorded on the rock

Don't believe all you hear

School Registers - Part 2

John Baster was a charitable man

Flogging Joey and his warriors

Nov Family mysteries

Privacy and the genealogist

The rise of the Humber fishing ports

Old Occupations - Was your ancestor in the Horse Marines?

The London Dock Strike of 1889

The end of our sailing navy

Raking through the hearth tax

Looking for the Laings



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1997 Discovering a gold mine down under

Dec Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

The unbaptized, suicides and excommunicants

The rise of the Humber fishing ports - Part 2

The Society of Australian Genealogists

East India Company Civil Service College

What is a Family?

A missing person enquiry -(Harry Percy Beech) - Part 1

Bandits, Brigands and Buccaneers

Stonewear

A tutor in Florence in 1819

1998 Jan Old Occupations - Gunmaking

Thank you Thoresby

Your Royal descent

There was no gold to win

Never Give Up

A missing person enquiry -(Harry Percy Beech) - Part 2

Feb Will Kent's Russian Adventure

A Princely sum

The South Atlantic Islands: Tristan da Cunha

The Legion of Frontiersmen

Old Occupations - Great-Granddad Parkin, a cordwainer

Elusive Elizabeth

Reminiscences of an amateur genealogist's husband

John Aubrey

The George that never was

Mar When the Germans invaded London

A 'Mole' unearth's his past

Tracing the surname Newnham

Georgie, Madge and hair ribbons

I've strayed! Haven't you?

The South Atlantic Islands: Tristan da Cunha - Part 2

My Dorset heritage confirmed

The Times Index

Apr Old Occupations - Cricket ball making

Genealogy and genetics

Easier & cheaper access to old civil registration records

Remembrance of things past

Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth

May Bluecoat boy

Votes for Women

The South Islands - Ascension

Where did they go?

Jun A Company of Comedians

Old Occupations - Wee Workers of Warrington Pinmakers

Research in Uruguay and Argentina



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1998 Jun Votes for Women - Part 2

Somerset sinners and beneficiaries

A Tale of Two Lambs

Jul Easier & cheaper access to old civil registration records - Part 2

Voyage of the ships of hell

The South Islands - St. Helena

Richard of Eastwell - The Plantagenet labourer

An Unlikely soldier

Dead end or new beginning

Talk, tears and tea

Visiting old haunts

Aug Wounded in the Great War

Was your ancestor a Mormon?

The Ghost in the Census

Why Genealogy?

Old Occupations - The Dressmaker

Sep The manufacture of agricultural hand tools

The World's records within walking distance

Bella of the bar

The South Islands -The Falkland Islands

Mabel's lost Madonna

Oct We belong to that lot, you know!

University Registers

Apprentices and their records

It's " Unknown " to most of us

Good words from the front line: trench papers and what they relate

Mary Upton: A young wife's tale

Nov The Will of Thomas Guy

The West Indies manuscript sources

The rat catcher from Tring

Church of Christ

London Metropolitan Archives

The Internment of Enemy Civilians in wartime Britain- Part 1

The scythe makers of Abbeydale

Dec The ordeals of a 19th Century country curate

The Internment of Enemy Civilians in wartime Britain- Part 2

Aliens

John Titford's guide to printed sources for family historians

Samuel Richardson

A fall from grace

In the blood

1999 Jan Genetics and the inheritance of family characteristics

The West Indies - Printed Sources

Old Occupations - Carriers

What's in a Name?



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1999 Jan The Witridge connection

Australian Military records

Feb Discovering a family through finding a Hero

English trades and occupations

The Potto Brown papers

The Russian connection

Societies and high density/frequency names

Sewree Christian Cemetery, Mumbai, India

Universal pensions - A Victorian scheme

Mar A comedy of errors - The Marriage Records of England & Wales

Old Ocupations - The Canadian Logging Industry

Military Matters

A Training for Home Servants

The West Indies: Unsettled Settlers - Pirates and Buccaneers

A Post Card from Rubleben

Apr Quenn Mary's Match

Printed Parish Registers

May Some non-London records at the London Metropolitan Archives

Elizabeth Uren Ould Theobald

The West Indies: St. Kitts

Old Occupations - Farming in the Lincolnshire Fenlands

A rose by any other name

Jun The Hacketts - not scofflaws after all

Why did Hester go to Leicester?

1881 Census Project: reported "mistakes'

Jul An outsider goes ancestor hunting

Old Occupations - The Higgler

The English Church Courts and their records

The West Indies: St. Kitts - Part 2

Perseverance rewarded

A Bigamist in the Family

Aug Proving a pedigree

Creating a Family History Website

That name rings a bell

Getting the most from the Family Search Internet Genealogy Service

Sept The West Indies - Nevis

Old Occupations - The Coprolite Miners

A Soldier of the Queen - Reuben Barfoot

The London Gazette

World War II RAF grave site

Military Matters

Mad Aunt Lil - What illustrious ancestors?

24 years with history at your elbow - 2 doz years at the other side fence

Britain's Victorian baby-farmers - Part 1

Welcome to the Fair

Oct Britain's Victorian baby-farmers - Part 2



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1999 Oct Grave Thoughts

Respect for the departed

1881 British Census untilities

Anna and the Captain of Siam

Was your ancestor in the theatre?

The birth of a family legend

Nov Prisoners of the Rising Sun

100 years of family history

Old Occupations - "Unwomanly toil" - The white slaves of England

Making the most of old photographs - image manipulation

Piff's Elm - a family tree

The West Indies - Nevis - Part 2

Who were the Boers?

Dec The Pillibrowns and me - a search for the past

Shop assistants - white slavery

Military Matters

Our Life and Times - Your personal project for the millenium

Sailing away to fight the Boers

Walking a mile in their shoes

2000 Jan The Dancing Master

Lasting Consequences of Brief Encounters

Landowners and Occupiers in England & Wales - Part 1

Custodian II

What Happened to Thomas Payne?

Menen Gate Graves Name List

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Nevis

William Elison Savill Read Farrier Sergeant, Boer War

Bird-Pratley

Feb 17th Century Village Life: The Archdeacon's Visitation

Farmers, Weavers … and Coiners !

The Prisoner - George Gilmour

Never Give up Hope


Millbank Memorials

The Data Protection Act 1998

The End of the Boer War

Mar Clandestine Marriages in the Chapel and Rules of the Fllet Prison -Part 1

Providing Archive Services

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Nevis


Scottish Miners' and Ironworkers' Housing 1850-1936

Sampler

The Titpton Slasher

Read All About IT

Apr Treasure Trove

In Quest of Books



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2000 Apr Marital Discord

But It's Only a Small Grave

Military Matters

Odd Vols - Unusual Printed Sources for Family Historians

Clandestine Marriages in the Chapel and Rules of the Fllet Prison -Part 2

May The "Captain Swing " Riots - Part 1

Bank of England Will Extracts

John Titford's Guide to auctioneers' Catalogues

Unpublished 18th & 19th Century Marriage Register of Old Cambridge …

The Voyage of the Lady Egidia to New Zealand 1860-1861

Jun Postcards from the Great War

Military Matters

Reclaimed Foundlings

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Anguilla

Genealogical Musings in Calcutta

The "Captain Swing " Riots - Part 2

Jul Complexion Fair, Hair Brown, Eyes Hazel

Some Events Overseas


The French Connection

Soldiers and Sailors Too

Horse and Foot

Aug Knur and Spell World Champion

Records of Two Small Building Firms

Soldiers and Sailors Too - Part 2

John Titford's Guide to auctioneers' Catalogues - Part 2

They Thought They Were Married, But Were They?

Some More events Overseas

Sept The National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918

There's a Methodist in my Madness

Abomination, Public Scandal

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - British Virgin Islands

Who will buy my Mitcham lavender?

Tur Blue Blood

Joseph Newman, Cooktown & the Palmer River Gold Rush

Oct Burgess Rolls and Poll Books - a detective story

From London to Buckinghamshire iva Scotland

Even More Events Overseas

The Scottish Scene


Immigration to Jamaica

The Hutton Story

Nov Ellis Island Gateway to America - Part 1

What are they Now ? - Scottish Regiments

John Titford's Guide to auctioneers' Catalogues - Part 3

Index to Missing Person & Others - Times of London



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2000 Nov Sources for Labourers in an Agricultural Community

Returning to Your Family Home

A 17th Century Schoolmistress

Health Unbought - 17th Century Solutions for Poor Health

Dec Tuppence for the First Child - a Penny for the Rest

Births, Marriages & Deaths at Sea

The Origins of the Royal Air Force

Fast Fingers in the Hop Fields

A Case of Double Vision

From Ulster to Waterloo

Ellis Island Gateway to America - Part 2

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Montserrat

2001 Jan Mostly murder

Photographic Groups of Eminent Personages (II)

Talk about strange hobbies

Clergymen of the Church of England

A Visit to Salt Lake City

Establishing and developing Internet Services - Part 1

Child Migrants from Post-War Britain - Myths & Realities

There is a Corner of a Foreign Field that is Forever

An Unhappy Hogmanay

Feb The National Burial Index for England & Wales

Was Your Man at Trafalgar

Sources for Medical Men

Tracing Your Ancestors in Russia

The Life and Death of Police Museums

Anthrax - The Malignant Postule

Crime and Punishment in the 19th Century- Cheltenham

Mar 18th Century Newspapers for family historians

Records of Lawyers in England & Wales

The Colnaghi Connection

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Montserrat

Establishing and developing Internet Services - Part 2

Brothers & Sisters and Great Aunts

Attention to Business

Apr Banns of Marriage


Women Warriors

Remember the Alamo?

Some sources for Norfolk Genealogy

The Ins and Outs of Gedtrees

The Morgans of Gower

May The Tjiepval Project

Records of Illegitimate Children

Digital Camera - Can the help Genealogy?

The Story of a Barnardo's Boy



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2001 May An 18th Century Soldier in the Family

Jun A Comedy of Errors - Act 2

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Antigua

What are they now?

Some of Our Ancestors are Missing

British Prisoners of War & their records

Beside the Sea

The Royal Humane Society

Jul Odd Vols - Unusual Printed Sources for Family Historians - Portraits

The Parliamentary Archives

Stephen Duck

The Way the Army Works

FromTrafalgar to Guadelope

Monumental Inscriptions

The Hangmen of Yorkshire

Aug Christchurch, Kasauli, India

Autobiography of Harriet Jackson, Bahr, Brooks, Smith

1901 Census Rip-off

Sept Wills at the Family Records Centre - Part 1

The Saving of the Royal Air Force

Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Antigua

The Metroploitan Police centenary 1929

The Castledine family of Bingham

Henry Pitman

Oct Odd Vols - Unusual Printed Sources for Family Historians

The 1901 Census

Wills at the Family Records Centre - Part 2

Who was Thomas Hilton?

Army Roll of Honour - World War II

What are they now?

Was one of your ancestors German?

Nov The Boys' Brigade - Part 1

Probate Valuations and Fees

Curiouser and Curiouser

In pursuit of a Legend

The Five Boys

Once a Fusilier, always a Fusilier

Dec Settlers of the Old Empire: The West Indies - Grenada

Wills in the 19th Century

What are they now?

Sources of Royal Australian Air Force Prsioner of War Records WW2

Deeds speak louder than words

The Boys' Brigade - Part 2

2002 Jan