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                                            Graham Roumieu for BuzzFeed News I was pleased to hear the British geneticist Adam Rutherfo...

Every family has a few black sheep, either in the present or in the past. Most often both. And a family historian, believing that every effe...

It's a long time since I've mentioned my ancient ancestors in the Leicestershire village of Skeffington. I devoted considerable ener...

Here's a studio photo of my grandfather Ernest Skyvington [1891-1985] with his parents William Skyvington [1868-1959] and Eliza Mepham...

Over the last few years, several members of my Australian family have taken advantage of the addresses of places indicated in my family-hist...

Elias Ashmole 's suggestion that my Latton ancestors descended from the illustrious Estouteville family was published in 1719, with sup...

My paternal aunt Yvonne Elizabeth Skyvington was born at the Hillcrest Hospital in Rockhampton (Queensland, Australia) on May 1, 1919....

It's hard to imagine that a quiet and well-behaved old-timer like me might evoke the possibility of his Viking ancestry. Besides, I can’...

Initially, Old Bailey was the name of a London street... Four years ago, in a blog post entitled Family-history shock [ display ], I d...

A century separates these two photos taken at exactly the same spot in a northern neighborhood of London. The older lady was Mart...

A couple of days ago, I made an intriguing discovery in the domain of my ancient family history. It's a little complicated to describe, ...

Ever since I've been interested in family history (that's to say, for over 30 years), I've wondered who was the shoddy scholar...

Ever since I started to investigate my paternal Skyvington genealogy, back in 1981, I've been obsessed by an obvious question: Would I...