Q & a

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset NICOLA MORRIS is a genealogist based in Dublin (timeline.ie) JAYNE SHRIMPTO

A chance remark on an outing with his parents kickstarted Jim Robson’s family history journey. Little did the IT consultant, who lives in Paisley, Renfrewshire, know what an epic route it would take,

Q I share with you here a mystery photo of a soldier with no cap badge, who is probably the natural grandfather of my friend, Jenny Sweeney. Her grandmother, Ada Sophia Ward, born 1893, was age 21 whe

Before the introduction of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales in 1837, it is the parochial registers recording the baptisms, marriages and burials of our ancestors

In actor Andrew Garfield’s Who Do You Think You Are? episode he made the sad discovery that three of his great grandfather’s sisters were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp. A number of phot

(Photograph taken around 1955) This photograph brought instant memories of when, as a teenager, I regularly walked with friends, Barry, George, Eric, and others, from Portland Street (near the Royal I