My Genealogy leads to Robert The Bruce!
(or William the Conqueror, Charlemagne or Genghis Khan) If you're in the UK and a fan of genealogy, you'll probably have been watching...
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Jun 20, 20233 min read
Tracing Ancestors Using Shipping Records
The easy part of genealogy is tracing the basics of birth, marriage and death, and looking for people on census returns. This gives you...
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1moragpeers
Jun 11, 20232 min read
Passports, travel and genealogy
This year has involved me working hard on my Master's dissertation, which has now been submitted and is awaiting grading. Fingers...
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1moragpeers
Jun 7, 20232 min read
Ancestral Tourism in Scotland
An estimated 40 million people across the world have Scottish roots. This is hardly surprising, given that in the 19th century an...
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1moragpeers
Oct 3, 20227 min read
Glasgow Emigrants
One of the cool things about being a Glasgow-based researcher is that you come across all sorts of stories about people who used Glasgow...
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1moragpeers
Sep 4, 20222 min read
Scotland's 1921 census - where is it?
The 100 year rule is standard when it comes to release of genealogical records here in the UK. This is all about protecting the privacy...
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1moragpeers
Aug 26, 20224 min read
Was Your Ancestor in a Reformatory School?
Our ancestors had a very different attitude to juvenile crime. In Scotland, until 1932 the age of criminal responsibility was just 7. In...
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1moragpeers
Sep 5, 20213 min read
Family History Through Addresses
Sometimes when we're researching a family it's easy to get bogged down in names and dates, and forget other ways to add context into a...
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1moragpeers
Aug 29, 20212 min read
Charity Shop Postcard Find
I've been volunteering in my local Oxfam shop for about 5 years, and enjoy it very much. Part of the joy of sorting donations is finding...
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1moragpeers
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Can family photos help with genealogy?
A picture tells a thousand words, so the old saying goes. That's certainly true with old photographs which you might have in the family....
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