‘i’ve traced my roots in derbyshire back to the early 16th century’

Family history research can, as we know, take us down many paths with surprising outcomes but I would never in my wildest dreams have thought that it would result in my cousin and I standing on a foot

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

Unusually, my story begins at the end with the perplexing death certificate of my great grandfather William Taylor. William died aged 71 in May 1938, in Gosport, Hampshire, and the death was registere

Many, many years ago – nearly 60, to be exact – I began to research my family tree. These were the olden days, long before the internet was even a twinkle in a scientist’s eye. My grandfather was able

Q I have a query about my ancestor Henry Clark born in 1893 in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He emigrated to the US in 1922, leaving Liverpool on 10 November 1922 and arriving in Montreal Canada, then he heade

Painting a local cricket match, Sherree Valentine-Daines received an invitation that changed her career and led her to become artist-in-residence at Goodwood