Whether it’s finding relatives you never knew you had or making contact with the missing link in your family tree, AncestryDNA and family history can be the ultimate combo when it comes to reconnecting with long lost family – both past and present. But what comes first – growing your tree or taking the test? Read More
While researching your British ancestry, you might discover that some of your family may have decided to try for a ‘new life’ in other parts of the world. In this blog post, Penny Allen, a Canadian who works as a Librarian in Greenwich and specialises in Canadian genealogy, discusses Canadian immigration and what tools are Read More
Transport for London (TfL) may have only been in existence since 2000, but it is actually the latest incarnation of an organisation that dates back to the establishment of the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) in 1856. The types of public transport offered by the company have continued to evolve, encompassing walking and cycling through Read More
Whether you love New Year’s Eve or would rather stay curled up on the couch with Netflix and a bottle of merlot, there is something nice about what the ‘New Year’ symbolises. While we don’t buy into the idea of morphing into entirely different people (as Bridget Jones would say, we like you just the Read More
Senior Manager of Content at Ancestry, Miriam Silverman, shares her experience researching her family history in Romania and how a DNA match repaired a broken branch of her family tree. When you come from immigrant stock, it can be very difficult to trace your ancestry back very far. My dad’s dad came over to London as Read More
When I first started researching my family genealogy, I wanted to fly over to the UK and visit where my people lived, look in cemeteries for tombstones and go to the churches to look in the registers. All normal things to want to do, but boy was I wrong! Before you jump on a plane, you Read More
Queen Elizabeth II will become Britain’s longest reigning monarch today – having been on the throne for 63 years, seven months and two days, equalling the record held by her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria. Top Five Queen Elizabeth II Facts The Queen will have plenty of people to celebrate the milestone with; Our Read More
It’s the penultimate episode of Long Lost Family tonight and it promises to be an emotional one. The Long Lost Family team feature the stories of two sisters who were kept while their brothers were given up for adoption, a family split by the decision to give up a child fifty years ago, and a Read More
The West Yorkshire Alehouse Licences Collection have been digitised for the first time and are exclusive to Ancestry More than 75,000 historic alehouse records included in this newly digitised collection Haunted boozers include The Fleece Inn in Elland – home to a headless horseman named Old Leathery Coit Other weird and wonderful pub names Read More
Authored by Richard Coplen and originally published in the Westmeath Examiner May 5th 2015. The Doyles: A Mullingar family fractured by the First World War The First World War was more destructive than any other war had ever been. It was the first genuinely global conflict, fought not just on the fields of France and Flanders, Read More