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- A photographic slideshow in honour of my Granny Geake
- Their Finest Hour
- It's official - Grandpa was in the Dad's Army
- Hibbitt Family Tree Updates
- On This Day... 1st April
- In Search of Harvey's Huguenot Origins
- Harvey's French Connection
- A 1921 Census search proves tricky
- Where were Smale my ancestors a century ago?
- Why might James Geake have been brought up in a family which was not his own?
- DNA goes some way towards uncovering the truth
- Gone from us exactly 50 years
- A Dando family puzzle - Mystery solved
- AncestryDNA's Ethnicity Inheritance Tool
- On This Day - 9th April
- The Career Of Air Commodore C.N. Ellen D.F.C. a.k.a. Harvey's Grandad
- Harvey's childhood homes in a painting in Nelson Mandela's house
- On This Day in 1873
- My Granny Geake - photos, cine and video footage
- Paying tribute to Henry Weaver
- Solving the next Ridley Riddle
- DNA finally knocks down my brick wall
- Aerial photograph of Kalat Fort - 1934
- A modest update to Harvey's Y-DNA
- Remembering Grandpa
- My Granny Hibbitt - photos, cine and video footage
- On This Day in 1869 and 1959
- Big update at my family history website
- Appointment at the Palace
- Rembembering my Grandpa Geake
- Remembering my Granny
- Honouring my Great-Uncle: D-Day Veteran
- Update on the Hibbitt/Hibbett/Hibbit Y-DNA Haplogroup
- DNA highlights my Grandpa Geake's mysterious Irish connections
- 100 years ago it was announced that Harvey's Grandad would be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross
- Obtaining your Deceased Ancestor's DNA could soon become a reality
- My Grandpa Hibbitt remembered
- Remembering my Granny Geake
- Weaver/Street Family Bible Comes Home!
- Remembering George Harvey who fell at the Battle of Amiens
- Remembering Granny Hibbitt
- New Family Tree Charts
- Marriage record finally opens doors to a brick wall
- DNA uncovers a family secret
- How to ensure none of your Gmail goes to your Spam mailbox
- 100 years of the RAF
- Mention in Dispatches 100 years ago
- Who am I? What's my name?
- A Tale of Tragedy
- How long have we been in Rutland?
- Latest on our Hibbitt Y-DNA kits
- How to obtain a Y-DNA haplogroup from an autosomal DNA test for free
- New Hibbitt / Hibbett Facebook Group
- Finding more Kidderminster ancestors
- In Remembrance
- The varied life of Ann Weaver (1830-1885)
- My Grandpa Hibbitt - cine footage and photographs
- Tracing my HIBBITT family through DNA - Can you help?
- The Big Freeze of 1947
- On This Day in 1972
- DNA testing is getting more popular
- Any old excuse!
- Hellyer, Helyer, Hellier, Helliar, Heller, Hillier, Holliar and so it goes on...
- Wave of Poppies on the Plymouth Naval Memorial
- When you think you know something, look again
- Were my Whorwood family well connected?
- 18th Century Barbers with a Gruesome Sideline
- And I thought the Cornish were Celts!
- On This Day in 1992
- GEDmatch Starter Guide
- George York's will breaks down my genealogical brick wall
- On This Day in 1916 - A Narrow Escape
- My Who Do You Think You Are? Timeline
- On This Day - Remembering the Quetta Earthquake of 1935
- York families of Kidderminster
- Website changes and how to subscribe to my blog
- My Grandpa Geake, a moving history
- Photo of Harvey's gt-gt-grandmother, Maria Bunstone Thomas, nee Guy
- Tuesday's Tip: Always check the original record
- My Great-Auntie Betty's Scottish lineage
- Susanna Stinchcomb: my ancestor's maiden name finally revealed
- 17th century newsflash: Okehampton's thatched school house catches fire
- My Edwards, Recket, Randall and Pudicome ancestors from West Devon
- Poverty and the Edwards' Family of Hatherleigh
- Of all the days...
- AncestryDNA Sale - Reduced until Monday
- Sentimental Sunday: We Will Remember Them
- GRO provides mother's maiden names during free search
- Where there's a Will there's usually a way - but not in this case!
- Testing dad's Y-DNA in search of my Hibbitt roots
- Tracing my forbears in North Devon
- Sentimental Sunday: My Granny Geake would have been 100 today
- 100 Years But Not Forgotten
- Remembering my hilarious Granny on her birthday
- Our Family Tree Pedigree Charts are now online
- The Barnes Family Tree has grown
- Church Record Sunday: DNA helps me find more ancestors
- New Genealogical DNA web page
- Sympathy Saturday: Remembering Ivy Alice Hibbitt, nee Dando
- My AncestryDNA results say I'm from the Emerald Isle
- I've ordered my AncestryDNA kit!
- Voice from Outer Space
- Photograph by Harvey's Grandad to feature on German TV almost a century after it was taken
- Surname Saturday: My Oldest Direct Line to Date
- Remembering Grandpa's Birthday
- Travel Tuesday: Tiger Moth at Imperial War Museum Duxford
- Workday Wednesday: Cappen Sam, the right man in the right place
- Matrilineal Monday: Tavistock Goose Fair - then and now!
- Those Places Thursday: Cleaning family graves in Cornwall
- Thankful Thursday: Remembering Grandpa Hibbitt - What was the name of those biscuits?
- The Dark Room Mystery Remains
- Visiting my gran's birthplace of Saffron Walden in Essex
- Tombstone Tuesday: 99 years since Henry James Weaver died in the Great War
- Cine footage of Anne Hibbitt's Christening Day
- Family Recipe Friday: Huckleberry Pudding
- Friday's Faces From The Past - Phyllis Weaver of Tavistock
- Early Triumph motorcycle reminiscent of Grandpa's WW1 service
- Site Updates - Surnames: Edwards, Bishop, Jones, Geake
- My visit to the charming village of Curry Rivel in Somerset
- Visiting Westminster College, Cambridge
- Site Updates - Surnames: Smith, Byden, Ellen, plus Photos of The Lower Struma taken during WW1
- Wanted - Flying log books for C N ELLEN
- The Partial Solar Eclipse
- Site Updates: Features and photographs of the 1935 Quetta Earthquake
- The R.A.F.'s Account of the Earthquake in Quetta in 1935
- Site Updates - Surnames: Stenlake, Northcott, Martin, plus US Troops in Tavistock Photos.
- Follow Friday: Family Tree Wall Art gift ideas for Christmas and other occasions
- Battle of Trafalgar veteran or a tall story?
- Site Updates - Surnames: Reckett, Edwards, Saunders, Bowden, Dashper
- Richard Fryer (1663-1710) - Last Will and Testament: new document in the E-Shop
- 1 month's access to the British Newspaper Archive for £1
- Tuesday's Tip: Cornish ancestors? View Cornwall parish records.
- Explore 2 million new Non-Conformist records on FindMyPast
- 240,000 extra newspaper pages now online
- Those Places Thursday: More Devon Ancestors
- Site Updates - Surnames: Moore, Alford, Bellew, King, Stuart
- All in the name of progress...
- New 1 month subscription for The British Newspaper Archive
- Mystery Monday: Burgoyne or Congdon! What was my gr-gr-grandmother's maiden name?
- Site Updates - Surnames: Geake & Savory
- Site Updates - The life of my 2 x Great-aunt Kate Louisa Hellyer
- List of E-Shop downloads
- Follow Friday: 20% off all digital downloads in the new E-Shop
- Those Places Thursday: My 17th century ancestor, Richard Fryer's, story is published
- Site Updates - Surnames: Martin, Davis, Gill, Hutton, Parsons, Pointing, Barham, Bird, Sherborn, Garland
- Tuesday's Tip: New Document in the Shop - In Search of Henry
- My Blog is 3 Today
- Ancestry supports the Royal British Legion - help out by watching a short video
- Follow Friday: John Dando's story is published in Discover Your History magazine
- Those Places Thursday: Planned Plymouth History Centre - have your say!
- Friday Funny: Church font doubles as a dust-pan
- Site Updates - Surnames: Taysum/Taysom/Toysom, Longney, Mills, Watkins, Greenway, Goulding/Golding, Aylaway, Organ, Welch, Minton
- Follow Friday: G-G-Grandmother's story is published in Discover Your History magazine
- Site Updates - Surnames: Dando, Oliver, Geake, Bishop, Gwyn, Hoskings, Jones
- Workday Wednesday: My Weavers made shoes
- Discover Your History magazine - out now!
- Thankful Thursday: Those Elevenses Moments
- Site Updates - Surnames: Feaston, Tyeth, Clarke, Oliver
- Military Monday: Great-grandfather's wartime story is published
- Black Sheep Sunday: 2 boys steal John Oliver's guns for armed burglary
- Site Updates - Surnames: Oliver, Woodall, Styring, Woodhead, Moore, Gill
- Site Updates: Stephen Free from Hadstock in Essex
- Site Updates - Surnames: Weaver, Twogood, Street, Munckton + Picture Gallery additions
- Family Recipe Friday: Kitchen Maxims from Mrs Beeton's
- Wishful Wednesday: Great-aunt Cissie poses for Newlyn School artist
- Site Updates - Surnames: Barnes, Gardner
- Site Updates - Elizabeth Gale (later Hellier)
- Sentimental Sunday: Messing about on the Water
- Site Updates - Surnames: Hellyer/Hellier, Congdon, Sillick
- Sentimental Sunday: Postman Spoils Special Homecoming
- Site Updates - Surnames: Geake, Dinner, Arscott, Pengelly, Walters, Dearing, Ball, Edwards, Sillick, Hellier, Gale, Hibbitt, Pitcher, Newbold, Day
- Site Updates - Surnames: Hibbitt, Pitcher, Young, Gardner, Applegate, Holt, Ellen, Byden
- Surname Saturday: Doing the Deed!
- Site Updates - James Smale, yeoman of Shebbear - Biography page
- Site Updates - Joseph Dando and his wives and children
- Site Updates - Surnames: Woodall, Lee, Rusby, Smale, French, Cooper, Fryer, Applegate + new Picture Gallery
- Follow Friday: Wartime Farm - another great BBC series
- Site Updates - Surnames: Harvey, Keigwin, Tregurtha, Paul, Trenwith, Hutchen, Dawes, Barnes, Wright
- Site Updates - New Dynamic Family Trees
- Site Updates - Home Page and Tree Reports
- Site Updates - Surnames: Hibbit (with variants), Leeson, Skillet, Tubbs, Bottom, Peesegood, Greensmith, Barnet, Newman
- Site Updates - Surnames: Larkworthy, Hopper, Martyn
- Military Monday: The Defence of Rorke's Drift
- Site Updates - Surnames: Horn, Larkworthy, Chapman, Odam, Heysett
- Site Updates - Surnames: Poulston, Wilkes, Cotterell, Lewis, Pitt, Horn, Rigsby, Larkworthy
- Spotlight on Uncle Tom & Auntie Nellie
- Military Monday: "Three other Ranks were killed"
- Memorial to the first Diamond Queen
- Treasure Chest Thursday: The mystery of the Prayer Book
- Site Updates - Surnames: Smale, Small, Ball
- Site Updates - Family Tree Reports
- Site Updates - Surnames: Harvey, Keigwin, Trezise
- Site Updates - Hellier/Hellyer, Gale
- Talented Tuesday: Ann Murch's antique embroidery
- Site Updates - Surnames: Murch, Dando, Spiers
- Site Updates - Surnames: Barnes, Thomas, Reynolds, Harvey
- Sorting Saturday: Hibbitt Family History morphs into Hibbitt & Barnes Family History
- Workday Wednesday: Fighting the Zulus at Rorke's Drift
- Site Updates - Fryer, Jones, Hopkins
- Follow Friday: Addie Wells & children - Titanic Records at Ancestry
- Travel Tuesday: Land's End and the First & Last House
- Site Updates - Gallery photos: Medals & Militaria
- Too many distractions in family history
- Site Updates - Surname: Oliver
- On This Day...17th - 31st January
- Site updates - Surnames: Bragg, Lake, Shapton, Burnbury
- Tech Tuesday: The Western Digital 'My Passport' Essential Portable Hard Drive
- On This Day...1st - 16th January
- Site updates - Surnames: Martin, Bragg, Brock, Courtis, Dennis, Bate, Squire, Skinner, Short
- Tech Tuesday: Quickly transcribe old wills and documents with speech recognition software
- Site updates - Surnames: Arnold, Orton, Jeffery, Martin, Bragg, Brock, Rice
- Follow Friday: Photo Books from Shutterfly.com
- Family Recipe Friday: Hodge-Podge
- On This Day...27th - 31st December
- On This Day...21st - 26th December
- Flip-Pal in the UK
- Family Recipe Friday: Custard Sauce (For Puddings or Tarts)
- On This Day...10th - 20th December
- Family Recipe Friday: A Plain Christmas Pudding for Children
- Advent Calendar: Santa Keyring
- Advent Calendar: Outdoor Decorations
- Advent Calendar: Christmas Cards
- Advent Calendar: Christmas Tree Ornaments
- On This Day...1st - 9th December
- Advent Calendar: The Christmas Tree
- Tuesday's Tip: Launch of the British Newspaper Archive
- Site updates - Surnames: Arnold, Raynor/Rayner, Wagstaff, Orton, Avins, Alcock, Bacon, Garlick
- Those Places Thursday: Thanksgiving 2011 at the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England
- Thanksgiving Thursday: WDYTYA US Series 2 - Ashley Judd's Pilgrim ancestor
- Thanksgiving Thursday: Greetings from Plymouth, England. The Pilgrims belong to us too.
- Sorting Saturday: Flip-Pal can't sell me their mobile scanner
- Find My Past the TV show
- On This Day...14th - 30th November
- Site Updates - Gallery photos: WWII Medals plus Newland & Clearwell, Glos.
- Leave a tribute and donate to the Royal British Legion
- Stop Press! Free WWI records at Ancestry for 4 days.
- On This Day...1st - 13th November
- Site updates - Surnames: Arnold, Bacon, Pitchard, Lock, Powell, Wanklin, Worgan, Knowles
- My blog is one year old today
- Follow Friday: Preserving your personal family tree website for posterity
- On This Day...22nd - 31st October
- Site Updates - Surnames: Pitcher, Ansley, George, Marshall, Ball, Higgs
- Site Updates - Pitcher and Gwinn/Gwyn
- Talented Tuesday: Supporting the Magpies - a wise choice after all
- New Download in the Shop - 1910-11 Post Office Street Directory for Tavistock, Devon
- On This Day...11th - 21st October
- New Download in the Shop - Hodgecombe Farm, Uley, Glos.
- New - Hibbitt Family History Online Shop
- Site Updates - Dando / Thompson / Mattison / Cotterell / Pitt
- Family history gifts for Christmas
- Words, names, numbers and dates, not forgetting the Latin
- Time for a moan - my content is NOT in the public domain
- On This Day...1st - 10th October
- On This Day...25th - 30th September
- On This Day...15th - 24th September
- Sentimental Sunday: Hello Great-great-grandpa, how do you do!
- Site updates - Surname: Arnold, Bacon, Wagstaff, Avins, Garlick, Roylance, Walker
- Those Places Thursday: Lowestoft Sands - old photos
- On This Day...8th - 14th September
- Site Updates - Family Tree Reports
- On This Day...1st - 7th September
- Those Places Thursday - Big Ben undergoing maintenance
- On This Day...25th - 31st August
- Site Updates: Surnames - Dando, Langston, Hewitt, Hansard, Dingle, Hill
- On This Day...18th - 24th August
- Sorting Saturday: 'My Library' in Google Books
- On This Day...7th - 17th August
- Site Updates - Dando in Plymouth
- On This Day...1st August - 6th August
- Site Updates - Memoir of Mary Dando (1752-1825)
- On This Day...27th July - 31st July
- Site Updates - Surname: Dando in New York
- On This Day...20th - 26th July
- Tuesday's Tip: Use your site's ads to find new genealogy sites
- Maritime Monday: Coastguard records at the National Archives
- FindMyPast.co.uk - New Military and Militia Records
- On This Day...8th - 19th July
- Tuesday's Tip: Essex ancestors? Use SEAX to trace them
- Free access to the Probate Calendars at Ancestry until 8th July
- On This Day...1st - 7th July
- Wordless Wednesday - Weston-super-Mare - old photos
- Site Updates - Surnames: Cotterell, Fryer, Pockett, Sargent
- West Yorkshire records at Ancestry plus Premium Membership offer
- Site Updates - Surnames: Cotterill/Cotterell, Lewis, Evans, Oakes, Turner
- On This Day...23rd - 30th June
- Do you know this man?
- On This Day...16th - 22nd June
- Site updates - Horn, Burdon
- Site Updates - Surnames: Fryer, Hart, Broucher
- On This Day...8th - 15th June
- Ancestry - New Dorset records and progress with the 1911 Census
- On This Day...1st - 7th June
- Site Updates - Dando / Oliver / Sheriff / Smale / Wareham / Pitcher / Nolan
- Family Recipe Friday: Mead
- On This Day...25th - 31st May
- 40,000 new records for Gloucestershire at FindMyPast
- On This Day...23rd May
- On This Day...22nd May
- On This Day...21st May
- On This Day...20th May
- Wordless Wednesday - Oil Tankers laid up on the River Fal (1950's/60's)
- On This Day...17th May
- On This Day...16th May
- On This Day...14th May
- Mappy Monday: Look up ancestral homes with Google Street View
- Sentimental Sunday: Searching for Zachariah
- Family Recipe Friday: Wedding Punch
- Those Places Thursday: Buckingham Palace - old photos
- Family Recipe Friday: Royal Pudding
- Thankful Thursday - Happy Birthday to Her Majesty
- Recent Ancestry additions
- Wordless Wednesday - The Coronation Coach, Royal Mews
- Family Recipe Friday: Cider Punch
- Wisdom Wednesday - Household work, Victorian-style - part 2
- Church Record Sunday: St James's Church, Westminster
- Site Updates - Dando & Oliver
- Those Places Thursday: Plymouth England, the Mayflower & the Pilgrims
- Wisdom Wednesday - Household work, Victorian-style - part 1
- Site Updates - Surnames: Horn, Burdon, Bowden, Larkworthy, Parsons
- Those Places Thursday - The M1 motorway - old photos
- Ancestry.co.uk extends its free census access
- Family Recipe Friday: Nougat
- Follow Friday: Scottish 1911 Census arriving on 5th April
- Site Updates - Surnames: Smale, Doidge, Powell, Fisher, Smith
- Thrifty Thursday: Free census access at Ancestry on 27th March
- Wisdom Wednesday: How to clean wallpaper
- Wordless Wednesday - Avon Dam, near South Brent - old photos
- More records from Ireland at Ancestry
- Family Recipe Friday: Pickled Nasturtiums
- Treasure Chest Thursday: Grannies' 'Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book'
- Wordless Wednesday - Clovelly, Devon - old photos
- Tuesday's Tip: Marriage Settlements in England & Wales
- FindMyPast.co.uk latest additions
- TheGenealogist.co.uk recent additions
- The 2011 Census - family history in the making
- Those Places Thursday: Trafalgar Square, London - old photos
- Thankful Thursday: Digitizing Grandpa's Old Slides
- Amanuensis Monday: When Stephen Dando met Thomas Paine
- Site Updates - Surnames: Dando / Congdon
- FindMyPast.co.uk latest additions
- Ancestor Approved Award
- Those Places Thursday - Down on the Edwardian Farm
- More records at FamilySearch and FindMyPast
- Find your convict ancestors for free until 31st January
- Follow Friday - Search for Non-Conformist burials
- Thrifty Thursday: Search & view Northern Ireland Wills online
- Ancestry launch the London Land Tax Valuations
- John Dando's Letter to the Countess - Famous Friday
- New parish records on FindMyPast.co.uk
- New burial records for Warwickshire on FindMyPast.co.uk
- Sports Centre Saturday: Robert Stuart King's England Call-up
- Site updates - Surname: King
- Follow Friday: GED-GEN Review - GEDCOM to Web Pages
- Those Places Thursday: A life-long ambition fulfilled
- Re-activate your expired credits at ScotlandsPeople
- Henry Ridley from Birmingham. How do I tell I have the correct man?
- Treasure Chest Thursday: Florence's Tea Set
- Site updates - the Weaver families of Curry Rivel, Somerset
- Ancestry.co.uk launches the 1911 census summary books
- Thrifty Thursday: PCC and other wills at TheGenealogist.co.uk
- New parish records for Dorset now added to FindMyPast.co.uk
- Site updates - Family tree reports
- Site updates - Surnames: Horn / Bailey / Rigsby / Hellier
- Tuesday's Tip: Devon ancestors? Search the Tithe Apportionments database
- How to organize your digital family history data
- Amanuensis Monday: Henry Weaver's personal WWI letters
- Site updates - Henry James Weaver (Photos)
- Ancestry enhances its family tree viewer
- Christmas around the corner - genealogy gift ideas (UK)
- Examples of 17th Century Handwriting
- Site updates - Henry James Weaver
- The 1911 Census is coming to TheGenealogist.co.uk
- Will of John Worgan of Alvington - 1673. Where does he fit in?
- Site updates - Dearing and Hellier
- Reference websites
- Non-subscription genealogical websites
- Ancestry release new military collections
- Website Updates so far in 2010
- Website Updates in 2009
- Website Updates in 2008
- New Here? Welcome to my Family History Blog