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- 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