It is a very small world
A few years ago, my wife and I contemplated buying a house in France and, one summer, we spent 6 weeks looking all over the area we fancied and must have seen almost 100 houses. In one of them, owned…
100th Anniversay of outbreak of First World War
If, like me, you had relatives who fought in the First World War, you may have missed the fact that it is precisely 100 years today that Yugoslav nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. On that same…
Author JK Rowling traces Harry Potter’s family tree back to the middle ages
Author JK Rowling is venturing further into the magical world of Harry Potter by tracing "the quiet brand of ingenuity" of the Potter family back to the 12th century in a new piece of writing on her website, Pottermore. Apparently,…
Pensioner claims to have the world’s biggest family tree after tracing 10,000 relatives
Did you spot today the news that pensioner Roy Blackmore, aged 83 and from Somerset, has traced more than 10,000 relatives and ancestors? He believes he has the world's biggest family tree and is even related to William the Conqueror…