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A short post. For those of you who research Suffolk Records, Ancestry's recent release of four Suffolk BMD datasets will be very welcome,...

***Updated 28 Dec 2025*** If you have ever found yourself looking for Death Duty Register entries, you will know the routine: search the ' Index To Death Duty Registers 1796-1903' dataset on FindMyPast by surname and year to find the entry you want, record the surname, year, and folio number because you will need them to find the actual Death Duty Register entry, on The National Archives website search Discovery under IR 26 for the year and browse the results of this search t

Can you undertake genealogical research in late 19th century Jerusalem, from a desk at home in Britain? This is the story of an unusually...

Where it all started A few months ago, while I was exploring my mother's ancestors, I discovered that one of them was a rating in the...

I was inspired to write this blog post because of the amount of time I had spent struggling to understand what makes Irish family history...

Friday, 20 November 2020, was the 75th anniversary of the start of the International Tribunal in Nuremberg, usually called the Nuremberg...