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Hello everyone. Happy new month! Dealing with uncertainty, or not dealing with it If, like me you really enjoy solving puzzles, what makes tracing your ancestors so obsessive is the fact that the more puzzles you solve, the more remain to be solved! Every time you find/uncover/reveal a new ancestor,...

Thanks Dave. That was very kind of you. I should have made a note to the effect that I'd already replied to her, saying that the details would go online next time I update the site. I forgot. My apologies, but also please do be careful because you are probably also precluded from doing direct look-u...

Hello everybody. It's the beginning of summer vacation time in the Northern hemisphere, with three day weekends on both sides of the Atlantic. I took full advantage, despite the traditional English bank holiday weather (cold, wet and windy), and hope you did too. In the past month we have added almo...

As one of my Italian colleagues once said to one of my Dutch colleagues, "You know it's the end of the month because of the name change!" You'll have to trust me that it sounds even better when said with a heavy Italian accent! There is indeed a name change. So it's time to review what's h...

Greetings truth-seekers. March's update is just a little late, because I've taken a few days off to be with my family in New Jersey. We had a couple of days in our nation's capital and just happened to time it perfectly to be there at the very peak of the cherry trees' flowering. It was quite breath...

Small postscript: Dave in Germany points out that by extending the surname distribution to include House I have missed a second Victoria Cross winner, William House of Berkshire.
Thanks Dave
Paul

With a few hours left in February, at least in the UK, it's monthly update time. New web pages It's been another busy month with another 800 people added to the database and a lot more details added for people we already have. The big news, however, is that we have started to redesign the website. T...

Hello everyone and welcome to a new decade with new challenges and new opportunities. Milestone passed Just yesterday, the number of people listed in our database crept over 20,000. To give you some idea of the total volume of data, the GED file containing all of our data that I use to update the on...

Al, would you like to edit your mail and add the actual date, or put it in bold red CAPS?
It might be there, but I didn't see it!
Paul

Hello there, folks. A very merry Christmas and happy new year in advance to everyone. It doesn't seem ten years since we were all wondering whether our computers would crash on 1-1-2000! Apologies for no newsletters since October. I have been rather busy trying to get to a major milestone, and have ...