Instant Cousins

Month: December 2025

  • Scrapbook of 2025

    This is my annual review of what has happened on Instant Cousins since the beginning of the current year. I’m looking back to make sense of how I have been mapping my family’s ancestry and other stories. It has been quite a journey around the UK, seeking out stories that I have pieced together from…

  • Ticker Tape

    Information and news can spin around the world in a matter of seconds, or faster sometimes. In 2025 most people in the world have access to the internet, mobile phones and tablets, televisions, radios and more. Very few people read newspapers, the Royal Mail is struggling with providing a cost-effective service because people are no…

  • Visiting Aunt Susie

    In the late 1970’s, before I met my wife, she was living in a flat in the West End of Glasgow. Not far from where she lived, in Dudley Drive, lived her Aunt Susie. The road that she lived in is made up of a row of Glasgow tenements, four stories high, and very typical…