Trace Your Ancestry - Family Research

01/01/2026

A Calendar from 1926, 100 years ago!!
Do you have any ancestors who were born in this year?

31/12/2025

Wishing all our customers and followers a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. #2026

26/12/2025

If you share a birthday with Kit Harington, Alexander Wang and Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall, then you also share the least popular day to be born, 26 December! 🥳

Boxing Day has seen the lowest number of births of any date, from 2013 to 2024 🎂

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24/12/2025

24/12/2025

Enjoy the opportunity to spend time with your family this Christmas. Whether it’s your family that you share your day with or those you visit when researching your ancestors! Merry Christmas from

23/12/2025

From 1837 onwards, it's possible to find your English and Welsh ancestors' birth, marriage and death records on the General Register Office website - here's how to use it:

https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/getting-started/finding-birth-marriage-and-death-records

22/12/2025

Seems my family have already done this!! Seems all the children in my Fry family in the 19th century used the same names for their children who were born about the same time span in the same area!! Did this happen in your family?

20/12/2025

It’s always good to talk! Christmas is a time when families get together, a good time for the junior members of the family to begin their genealogy research by asking some simple questions of their grandparents or senior family members. Family stories & facts need to be written down and preserved alongside named photos for future generations to enjoy.

18/12/2025

Seasons Greetings to all my customers & followers. Here’s hoping for a happy & healthy 2026 for us all - The custom of sending Christmas cards, as we know them today, was started in the UK in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole. He was a senior civil servant who had helped set-up the new ‘Public Record Office’ (now called the Post Office), where he was an Assistant Keeper, and wondered how it could be used more by ordinary people.
Sir Henry had the idea of Christmas Cards with his friend John Horsley, who was an artist. They designed the first card and sold them for 1 shilling each.

16/12/2025

My research to date unfolds the story of my diverse ancestors... coal hewers; soldiers; farmers; railwaymen to name a few! The details you learn enables you to get a better idea of the people they were and to see a picture in your minds eye.

15/12/2025

15/12/2025

It has not always been traditional to have a June wedding. In Victorian England (from 1840’s to early 1900’s), many weddings took place on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (a day when employer’s distributed money, food, cloth (material) or other valuable goods to their employees). Working class people typically worked six days a week in those times and these were two days (25-26) that they and their relatives could probably count on having to themselves. Workers didn’t get paid when they didn’t work which, of course the vast majority of people could ill afford. On top of that churches often offered their services free or at a reduced rates on Christmas, a flip through marriage registers shows a definite spike in the number of ceremonies performed. Did any of your ancestors marry at Christmas?