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Send us Fan Mail In the spring of 1481, four men of the same Norfolk surname—Robert Tassell of Buckton, Robert Tassell of Foulden, Henry Tassell, and William Tassell—stood together to convey a messuage and land in Buckton to two trusted figures: Master William Bathecome, a cleric, and Richard Edwar…

Send us Fan Mail A look at three houses which witnessed developments in the study of genealogy Check out  A Practical Introduction to Medieval Genealogy by Malcolm Noble

Send us Fan Mail A short discussion explaining Common Recovery and Entail. We also define four terms often used in property transfer.  And then there is a brief nod towards Adventures in Genealogy.  It is all over very quickly with no trimmings and very little music! Check out  A Practical Introduc…

Send us Fan Mail The episode looks at the four distinct periods in the history of parish registers and attempts to unpick what was going on, how that development (or lack of development) could influence how the registers were kept and what that means for how we should read them Check out  A Practic…

Send us Fan Mail On 4th December 2019 at Bonham's Book Auction in Knightsbridge, London, a copy of a book bound in red morocco gilt by Riviere and Son, which would have enhanced its auction value, was sold for £4,437.50. Some people say that if a similar item came up today, it might go for twi…

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about pedigree hearsay and the genealogist's evidence toolbox. Tonight's episode falls back on the old pedigree hearsay doctrine to answer a few practical questions. When family history is preserved in stories, Bible entries, letters, parish regis…

Send us Fan Mail Ethel Stokes was a woman whose quiet, determined labour shaped the archival landscape that historians, genealogists and local researchers depend on today. Her work was practical, unsentimental and profoundly influential, and it continues to benefit anyone who hunts ancestors in Eng…

Send us Fan Mail Today we're looking at one of the most ordinary features in any historic domestic plot—a feature that most families never thought about twice. It rarely appears in documents and rarely survives in memory, yet it can tell you more about daily life than almost anything else on t…

Send us Fan Mail Evening, all. Hope it's a pleasant evening where you are and that your family history research is going well. I've been doing a bit of D-Day research recently — I'm not a military historian, it's not my thing at all, so I've learned quite a little bit. But …