Researching family history can be a fascinating experience. Your ancestor’s life story could make you very proud – they could have been a well respected person in their community or they may well have even been the inventor of something…
As of yesterday, an online database is now accessible to the public on the PASE (Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England) website, which let's people search for towns and villages to see who owned their land between 1066 and 1086...
Family history is becoming increasingly popular here in the UK and many believe it's because of television shows like Who Do You Think You Are? - Sarah Jessica Parker being the latest star to appear in the hit BBC series. It's always interesting to find out about our past - where we come from, who we are. People enjoy digging up their family secrets and seeing if they have any interesting ancestors...
A study that took place in Germany over several years has shown that Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary relatives and not chimps as previously thought. This discovery came whilst attempting to map the complete caveman genetic code. The team of 56 researchers from the Max Planck school ground fossils before comparing the scientific make-up to that of the chimpanzee.