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I’m Elaine, & I’ve been researching my ancestors since 2003. Come with me on my never-ending journey to discover my roots. Perhaps we might share a twig or too on our family trees! If you like my content, don’t forget to subscribe at the bottom of the page!

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Ancestry

Project Infant

“These were babies, not numbers” I would like to share here a very special project by young Genealogist Daniel Loftus from Cork, Ireland. In Daniel’s own words: “I started Project Infant after discovering that I had a personal connection to the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. It made me remember all of the mothers…

Bargeman

Peter Charles Jackson

From Amwell End to Guisborough: the Life and Times of Peter Charles Jackson My husband’s grandfather, Peter Charles Jackson, was born on the twenty-first of January 1892 in Ware, Hertford, to Martha Jackson (born Bennett) and John Peter Jackson, a Bargeman. Peter was the fourth of six children born to John Peter Jackson, a Bargeman,…

Ancestry

Postcard From The Past

…or, how I found myself researching an unrelated family! On 30th July, 1907, someone identified only as ‘V’ sent a post card to ‘Miss Kingsford, 294 Brockley Road, London N6’. I purchased the above postcard on eBay, because it featured the home town of my husband’s great grandfather, John Peter Jackson (1861-1915) a Bargeman who…

Evans

Warlow Misfortune

The above photograph was in a family photo album previously owned by my great grandparents and then grandparents. For many years, it intruiged me. Who was Thomas Warlow? Who was he to my great grandparents, in whose album it had been placed over a hundred years ago? The answer didn’t come until I ordered a…

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