All Those Before
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A genealogy and family history blog, covering biographies of ancestors, research tips (and pitfalls!) along with the joys of discovering more about one's past. Strictly a hobby, not a business.
All Those Before
1M ago
Like 25 million other people worldwide, I’ve taken a DNA test with Ancestry. While our DNA never changes, the way in which Ancestry (and other companies) analyse our results does, as more people test and as genetic science advances. Each year Ancestry update their ethnicity estimates, but recently they’ve updated their DNA communities. Ancestry describes ..read more
All Those Before
6M ago
Alice March Barne (1875-1971) is the last of my great grandparents to feature on this blog. This story is a little different to the others, however, because the majority of it is written in her own words. This has been interspersed with my own research into her life, along with pictures and records from the ..read more
All Those Before
8M ago
Background A few weeks ago I was sitting in church listening to the last of the music before going in search of a cup of coffee. It was then that I noticed a brass plaque on the wall, commemorating a soldier who had been killed during the Second Boer War. The inscription reads: In ..read more
All Those Before
11M ago
George William Scoble is the 7th of my great grandparents to feature on this blog. His wife, my great-grandmother, kept many papers which have provided an unusually detailed picture of his working life; far greater insight than looking at his occupation recorded in the Census every ten years. George was born in 1873 in Dorset to ..read more
All Those Before
1y ago
We all have brick walls in our family trees; it’s an occupational hazard of being a family historian. This is the story of the longest-standing brick wall in my tree, which I believe I’ve now smashed. I did a DNA test with Ancestry in the summer of 2017. My interest had already been already piqued ..read more
All Those Before
1y ago
Like millions of other people I’ve taken a DNA test with Ancestry. Each year they update their ethnicity estimates. While our DNA doesn’t change, the science behind it is constantly evolving. This means that testing companies such as Ancestry are able to provide more precise ethnicity estimates than they could do even just a few ..read more
All Those Before
2y ago
Introduction This blog post picks up the story of my husband’s Great Uncle Eddie (Edward Moseley Cope) at the end of the Great War. If you’ve not yet read the first part of his story, or want to recap, then the link is here. Spring 1919 Having been released as a prisoner of war and ..read more
All Those Before
2y ago
Introduction Some years ago, my (now late) mother-in-law told me the story of her Uncle Eddie. He was a hero from the Great War and had something approaching celebrity status on her side of the family. I’ve been fortunate that the wealth of records relating to his military career means I can write about him ..read more
All Those Before
2y ago
Like so many family historians with English heritage the release of the 1921 Census was a day of great excitement. All four of my grandparents were alive in 1921, as were all eight of my great-grandparents. Only my paternal grandfather had left home at this point, which rather helpfully means that the other three grandparents ..read more
All Those Before
2y ago
Introduction The American genealogist David Allen Lambert recently tweeted: “What #genealogical gift would you like granted this holiday season?” Unsurprisingly he received lots of replies, many of which focused on breaking down longstanding brick walls or unravelling the identity of certain ancestors. My response fell into the latter category; the story that unfolds is that ..read more