In January 2004, when travelling in Australia, I was lucky enough to get a job at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, observing people as they looked around the newly opened exhibition Striking by Night featuring the famous Lancaster Bomber, G for George. I was also interviewing people as...

On a school trip in April 1990 to West Germany, I visited the museum and memorial park on the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.  There are various official memorials, but also there are individual gravestones dotted about amongst the heather, these are representative rather than marking a specific...

Family recipes can invoke many memories especially in the older generation. This recipe is the basic receipe, close to the secret receipt used in our family!https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/welshcakes_67264...

The UK census has been taken every 10 years since 1801, but it is only since 1841 that householders’ names have been officially included and so prove of interest to the genealogist. There are some areas where some names were collected in earlier censuses but these are few and...

You’re happily working away on your family tree of Brocklehursts, Culpeppers, Treharnes and MacKinleys when you suddenly find a maiden name of Taylor, Brown, Davies or the eponymous Smith or Jones. Do you throw your hands up in horror and give in, or redouble your efforts? This problem has...

Put names on photos! If I have sifted through one box of “unmarked” photos, I have sifted through 100! Make it your resolution to mark your photos and help those researchers who follow you.Record the history of your own recent family! Preserve your documents and photographs digitally. Research the...

Hi! My name is Melanie Harries, and I am The Ancestor Finder. I have been tracing my family tree for over 30 years and have helped many others to explore their genealogy....