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Noble descent is far more common than you'd think initially, there are several great articles around explaining how pretty much every Caucasian is a descendant of Charlemagne. And also how within a...

Hi All, this ones mystified many of us for years - the above is the year and place of birth listed on Census forms in 1841 when he is already married and living in Hardingstone Northamptonshire and...

Excellent advice, I hadn't managed to find that archive. I have a few Russian speaking friends, perhaps I can persuade one or more of them to wade through documents

Hi Phillip, No documentary evidence she is buried in Kiev, but that is what members of the family say. Davids son Lewis also came to New Zealand and knew far more about the family than we ever did -...

And yes that is the correct Marks Goodman - he has descendants but when my aunt tried to contact them she was told to stay away and they had no interest in contact with any relatives

Hi Phillip, That's mysterious - Louis died in UCLH on 25/7/1909 of pneumonia. It is entirely possible they were under poor laws during the time he was in hospital

Some but not all of them went to Norwood, David and Lena were admitted there in January 1910. Marks, Barney and Reuben appear to be in a school in Kings Lynn on the 1911 census. There is a Hyman the...

It's a forlorn hope, which has troubled people for many years. My great grandfather Louis Goodman and his wife Rebecca arrived in London between the birth of their daughter Annie in 1892 and son...

Is just a small selection of the names! The Dustows originate around Veryan in Cornwall and spelling varies Dewstoe seems common. The Smith's were around Burford in Oxfordshire, but originally...

Just an update for you all, I've received a copy of the marriage certificate to Mary Jones this morning. It's thrown up a load more questions. In the space for grooms father it says L (or possibly C)...

Excellent, I will order the second one, apparently his second wife he also either divorced or abandoned - she later died in an asylum - and he married a third wife in Australia going onto have many...

I had discovered the archway archives for WW1 records but didn't realise they held so many other things, I see if I just search Mulvay there are also things related to my 2x great grandfather...

Wowsers! Thanks for that, I'd not managed to find any of those articles, I'll bookmark the website for later use. Now I'll be checking the children's birth dates to see which one isn't his. As to the...

Blood transfused in the UK is leucocyte poor, 90% of transfused red cell units contain <1 x 10 to the power of 6 white cells, this might sound like a lot but the normal count is 4-11 x 10 to the...

Just discovered this website, I first got the genealogy bug 35 ish years ago in New Zealand - pre internet, it was all microfilms via the local LDS, and word of mouth. When I came to the UK in 1997 I...

This is one of many brick walls, Peter was born in the UK or Ireland approximately 1840. He is my 3x great grandfather and emigrated to New Zealand marrying the first of his three wives Elizabeth...