Week 4 – A Theory in Progress Who is Phoebe Elizabeth Washbrook’s Mother? There is a birth certificate I have been trying to order since November 2025. It is sitting in the General Register Office (GRO) cloud, waiting for me to order it and download it directly to my computer. It holds the answer to …
Week 3 – What This Story Means to Me The distance between here and there Ever since I started my genealogy journey back in the 1990s, I have always wanted to know more about my English family. My parents, brother and I left England in the 1970s to journey to Mum’s birth country, Australia. I …
So, it’s already Week 2 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. You can read my other 2026 posts here or my 2018 posts here! Week 2 – A Record That Adds Colour Samuel Ernest Stokes – A Tragic Accident Back in the 1990s when I started researching my family history, my Auntie Eileen told me …
I have decided to spend 2026 getting my blog up and running again. A fitting way to do this is undertaking the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. I last undertook the challenge in 2018, and you can read those stories at 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. So, here we go with the 52 …