Think Outside the Box
Chloe O’Shea make seven stratagies to try. It’s easy to get blinkered in searching for missing relatives. Widen your search to name variants, the FAN club, and places rather than names.
The Inheritance of Trauma
Intergenerational trauma is the theory that the effects of a traumatic event can be passed down the generations. The interplay between biological predispositions, environmental factors, individual resilience through genetics, or epigenetics, are all factors.
Asylum Records
Michael Higgins explores finding an ancestor in Victorian or Edwardian mental hospital records.
Best Websites
In the latest in a continuing series Jonathan Scott switches attention to records of cime and punishment.
Nelson’s navy
In Hero’s of Trafalger Felicity Day looks at the conditions endured by the forgotten sailors of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Also
Paul Blake looks at Protestation Records.
Jonathan Scott extends his Around Britain series to Cumbria and the digital developments with the country archive service’s new website.
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