My Family Genealogy

Talk: Finding Your Ancestors on Ancestry.co.uk   Do you have trouble finding your ancestors on Ancestry.co.uk (the biggest subscription family history website)? With billions of records [...]

Using UK Parish Registers   Parish registers record baptism, banns, marriage and burial – note the difference compared to Civil Registration. Your research entry into Parish registers [...]

Talk: Tracing your alien ancestors   Do you have family stories, myths or legends about ancestors arriving from elsewhere hundreds of years ago? Does your skin, hair, eye colour lead you to [...]

Your ancestors in Slovenia Slovenia (officially The Republic of Slovenia) is a Country most Europeans will recognise as part of the former Yugoslavia. Ljubljana is the capital with Maribor, [...]

Your ancestors in Slovakia   Slovakia (officially The Slovak Republic) is a Country with a rich history and a very high standard of living. With a population of 5.6 million it has been a [...]

Workshop: Wills (pre-1858) My workshop introduces your group to pre-1858 Wills, where to search for them, how to overcome brick-walls in their research and techniques for reading old Wills. This [...]

2019 Blog Summary I published 11 blogs in 2019, all on researching ‘alien’ ancestors; tracing the family history records for ancestors located in other countries. This continued [...]

Your ancestors in Poland Poland (officially The Republic of Poland) is a Country with a rich history. With a population of 38.5 million it is the sixth largest member of the European Union. [...]

Your ancestors in the Netherlands The Netherlands (commonly known in the UK as Holland) is a Country with a rich history. Known as a liberal country the Netherlands embraced many asssets of [...]

Your ancestors in Hungary Hungary is a Country with a rich history, most of us know the Country by its Capital Budapest. However great numbers of people contributed to the waves of European [...]