Tag: Family history Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: Mr Brown’s WarFriday 15 February 2013I was discussing the First World War with a friend and we were talking...Records and researchIt’s not the document, it’s the informationWednesday 23 January 2013Researchers spend a lot of time looking for documents. In fact, they may spend...Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: An underage Welsh brickie on the SommeFriday 18 January 2013My introduction to First World War research didn’t initially come through looking into my...Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: Thomas Cross, merchant seamanFriday 14 December 2012My First World War Tommy was not in the army, or any of the...Records and researchMissing from the census?Monday 19 November 2012All family historians use the census, and most of us find most of what...Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: An Eastender in the LancersFriday 9 November 2012At The National Archives we are busy planning our programme of activities to commemorate...Records and researchMy ancestor was… a traffic officer. How the UK Government Web Archive might help the family and social historians of the futureTuesday 28 August 2012 Not long after I joined The National Archives someone asked me whether I...Records and researchA singular nameMonday 13 August 2012‘A Somerset House clerk once declared that the tedium of his labour on the registry...Records and researchDiscover more than 300,000 naturalisation recordsTuesday 27 March 2012Naturalisation certificates (The National Archives series HO 334 and HO 409) You can search...Records and research‘Traitor to the British working man’Friday 9 March 2012Census returns are full of useful information for genealogists, local historians and other researchers.... « 1 … 3 4 5