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What Poor Law and workhouse records can you use to add contextural colour to your family history? How can you find out more about the events that shaped our pauper ancestors. How many of your family … [more]
Family history involves collecting, organizing and retrieving masses of disparate data, is an enormous task. Seeing connections across pieces of data is vital but difficult to manage. Family historian… [more]
How can use 'cloud computing' to aid your family history research. Think of the volume of data you have stored about the history of your family. Are you sure your data is backed up and retrievable in … [more]
The Tabula Peutingeriana is an intriguing ancient map, looking not unlike an underground map and serving a similar purpose but for the whole of the Roman Empire. Related posts: Dumnonia and Dumnonii … [more]
The largest family tree in the world, that of the Chinese philosopher Confusius has been digitized. Related posts: Family History Books 40,000 Digitized Books Try this free resource from Family Se… [more]
King Richard III, King Edward IV and Jane Shore. Just how was the life of this woman bound up in the enthralling politics of the Middle Ages when war was raging across the country. Jane's name is link… [more]
The ‘art of the possible’, The BBC has announced the public beta launch of a new initiative to bring the UK’s entire collection of oil paintings to the Internet for the first time. I… [more]
Chronology and the sequence of the events and the relationship and dependencies and connections between them, all very intriguing. Lots of tools say they help you build custom timelines but after a lo… [more]
Maps,antique, modern and customised are a key device for examining and analysing the evidence, facts conundrums and brick walls you may encounter as you seek to research and explore the subject of you… [more]
HGS Open Day was a lively and engaging event, we were demonstrating this new and evolving project as an example of the tools, resources, techniques and approach we are taking to our workshops, project… [more]
Will the TNA JISC funded Mapping the Blitz Project help those of us that funded it with our hard earn't tax payers money we do hope so.... [more]
Use forenames in family history research to provide new clues and insights, to help break down those brickwalls that we all meet in our research [more]
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Map your history, make new connections and gain new insights into your project, a free web service for family social and local historians, just a click away... [more]