Thomas Cunliffe – and the Australian WWI records finder

February 25, 2013 in Genealogy, Work

This post is about family research (a personal interest of mine) and a cross-dataset search portal I recently stumbled across (a profesional interest of mine). Apologies for mixing the two all up – but it was rather fun, so it
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Bess – a grand name, a grand dame

November 26, 2012 in Genealogy, Work

Those who know my family know that our daughter is nick-named Bess. Despite this being more of a dog’s name in Denmark we held fast and referred family to the Wiki page for Bess. If it was good enough for
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The inheritance from America

September 2, 2012 in Genealogy

I have been promising to write up this story for a while now. You could also call the story “How I got the name, Roued” or “The long-lost cousin from America”. It first came to my attention 10 years ago when my mothers
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US census access on Ancestry – now up till 1940s

August 31, 2012 in Genealogy

This weekend (till the 3rd September) Ancestry.com has announced a free access to the US census (which now contains census up till 1940). I have family in my research who went to the US in the 1880s and I have
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