Category: Cheesemongers and Dairies
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The frustrations of family history research
Other than records and memories kept by a family, the best way to begin any research is with a family history research website. There are a number available and one or two are even free. However if your research is going to be serious and if your hobby is time restricted, then a paid for…
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An Average Victorian Family ?
My title poses the question because I was quite interested in the size of my Great Grandmothers family. In the space of twenty years she had given birth to twelve children, two who lived for very short periods of time. Apparently this was not unusual other than the number of births. The National Archives reports…
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Looking for William Wilcox
If there is one thing that we, living in the twenty first century, will leave behind us it is a shed load of photographs, either in print, or digitally on a computer, or in cyberspace. Many of these pictures of us, posing and pouting will remain there until somebody deletes them. And that might not…