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Let me call it the GI-world . Humanity is leaving an era in which the letters “G.I.” generally evoked soldiers of the United States Army and...

Oxford vient de publier un énorme dictionnaire de noms de famille. En ce qui concerne mon nom à moi, Skyvington , je n'ai vraimen...

                                            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...

That's not meant to be a trick question, but it is surely a tricky question. And I'm not at all certain that I can indeed reply corr...

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

Having examined countless BMD records [births, marriages and deaths] in the context of my personal genealogical research, I was delighted t...

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

I don’t know whether many of my compatriots have ever heard of a NSW rural township named Breeza . Here’s a wonderful photo of the Breeza la...

Over the last month or so, in the context of my work on a future book about Gamone, I’ve been investigating haphazardly and half-heartedly t...

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’...

This morning, the postwoman brought me a first copy (from the printer in the UK) of They Sought the Last of Lands , which can be thought of...

It’s 2 o’clock in the morning, and I’ve just finished uploading the files of They Sought the Last of Lands to the IngramSpark platform in...

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

My highfalutin title simply designates touristic travel excursions motivated by family-history interests. So, a good example of a genea-pilg...

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

In the context of my genealogical research, I was intrigued, if not amused, by the behavior of my ancestor Charles Walker [1807-1860], prob...

I must admit that I tend to talk and think as if everybody in the universe has been enthralled by  Kurt Vonnegut [1922-2007] in general an...

Up until now, I’ve been using the following cover for the typescript of my book on maternal genealogy, soon to be published by Gamone Press...