Family Stories

Revisiting the soldier’s tale

Family Stories by LoisJune 15, 2014June 12, 2014

Family Stories by LoisJune 14, 2014February 2, 2019

I wrote yesterday about visiting the battlefields of World War One, and our wish to find the memorial to my husband’s relative, Horace Colgate. Here is a post I have previously published, showing the village where Horace, and my husband both lived as children, although some sixty years separated their boyhoods. Horace Colgate died nearly a […]

From Surrey to some foreign field

Family Stories by LoisJune 13, 2014September 10, 2018

Miles and miles

Family Stories by LoisJune 5, 2014

Family Stories by LoisJune 4, 2014

Family tree

Have you, like me, become confused with all the cousin, second cousin, third cousin once removed etc? I have done a lot of work on my own family tree and have written a novel about someone’s search for his ancestry, but I am still a little fuzzy about relationships. her is a helpful video!