(or William the Conqueror, Charlemagne or Genghis Khan) If you're in the UK and a fan of genealogy, you'll probably have been watching...

The easy part of genealogy is tracing the basics of birth, marriage and death, and looking for people on census returns. This gives you...

This year has involved me working hard on my Master's dissertation, which has now been submitted and is awaiting grading. Fingers...

An estimated 40 million people across the world have Scottish roots. This is hardly surprising, given that in the 19th century an...

One of the cool things about being a Glasgow-based researcher is that you come across all sorts of stories about people who used Glasgow...

The 100 year rule is standard when it comes to release of genealogical records here in the UK. This is all about protecting the privacy...

Our ancestors had a very different attitude to juvenile crime. In Scotland, until 1932 the age of criminal responsibility was just 7. In...

Sometimes when we're researching a family it's easy to get bogged down in names and dates, and forget other ways to add context into a...

I've been volunteering in my local Oxfam shop for about 5 years, and enjoy it very much. Part of the joy of sorting donations is finding...

A picture tells a thousand words, so the old saying goes. That's certainly true with old photographs which you might have in the family....