Inmates listed in Guildford Workhouse on the census of 1901 Once every 10 years, the census records give us a window into the ages and o...

  When I started to research the McKinnon side of my family in 1999, the easiest way to access information about them was a set of CDs of th...

  In recent years, recent days even, we have heard people in this country denouncing refugees crossing from France because, “the British Tax...

I have been taking advantage of the free Lockdown Downloads from Discovery/national archives to browse two albums of Prisoner detai...

  In 1807 during the Peninsular War when Napoleon’s troops invaded Iberia, King João VI of Portugal fled his country taking his entire c...

For many years, my great great grandmother Sarah Ann PETT was a brick wall in following my family tree.   Apart from her marriage to John ...

We know very little about the girls who arrived at the Guthrie Home in London, Ontario before it closed in 1893.  But the records of the Ins...

 In 1833, Robert Napier, a Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder bought land on the edge of the Gareloch at West Shandon to buil...

Mabel Love, a beautiful child star from a theatrical dynasty, caused consternation in 1889 when she suddenly disappeared in the ...