Family Stories

All families have stories; some stories are almost myths… did my ancestors really come from Sweden? Were they really river pilots or pirates operating out of the east coast port of King’s Lynn? Some family stories are true, although some facts may be hidden; my great-grandparents loved each other across a religious divide, but where and how did they meet? Some family stories are only revealed through census records and some genealogical detective work. I want to tell the stories of my family, and others who otherwise might be lost in the past.

Family Stories by Lois

Smells

I have what we call the Elsden nose… not that my nose is anything remarkable but I have a very sensitive sense of smell. I also have a great smell memory, and I can remember smells… for example, years and years ago, before I was fourteen when we moved from the flat we lived in […]

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Home view from abroad

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 […]

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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!

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