Exploring my family history - past and present

Mr Richard and Mrs Louisa May Bowman raised four kids together but were never married. Twenty years earlier, Richard Bowman had married t...

Keyphrases used on search engines 170 different keyphrases hainefamilywebsite joe haywood of hurst road longford coventry redcroft gaudi...

Family of William Francis and and his wife of South Wales As a beginner family historian, armed with the family bible entries, I couldn...

Rooting around the Evans siblings in Rogerstone, there wasn't much to go on.  My 4xgreat-grandma had 'married out' way back at t...

I was very sceptical that the 1939 Register would deliver anything new for me.  I have been studying family history for over 20 years, an...

Truly the luck of the draw. My 3x great-grandmother Blanche had a cousin, it turns out, one Susan Evans born 1811 in Bassaleg, near Newport ...

The following 1440 individuals are listed as their occupations during the war are known. This is just a fraction of the British population ...

Contrary to the above snapshot, it has been a very unhappy week here at Family History Exploration. The work horse that is laptop number #3 ...

I justifiably had my wrist slapped for submitting a handwritten family tree to an online forum recently. "We just can't read a sing...

Yippee, a mystery solved. I knew Jane Elizabeth Jones had married Giovanni Leone because she is described as his 'veuve' (widow) in ...