Month: August 2025
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The Legendary Bennisters
In January 2024 I wrote an annual review to this blog to take stock about my activities. I wrote about how researching, using popular research archives, can throw up surprising and exciting avenues which, although connected in some way to the families that I write about, are not directly family members. I mentioned that I…
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Tracing the Carvers
Part 3 For the past two weeks I have been tracing my grandfather’s origins and the lives of his brother and sister, two relatives who I never met and who I knew nothing of until I started researching their records. This week I look at Evelyn Daisy Carver, my grandfather’s only sister and my great…