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Genealogy - Category Archive
An unremarkable coincidence
A few months ago I spent some time exploring my wife’s family tree. One fragment of jigsaw was a census return from 1851 showing one of her 3–greats-grandfathers, then age 16, living with his parents at 13 Cambridge Street in Soho.
I looked at the current London street map and found there is no Cambridge Street [...]
Surname Profiler
This site is an interesting adjunct to my previous note on geneaology - the surname profiler from UCL lets you compare the geographical distribution of a given surname in the UK between 1881 and 1998.
I did a quick test using my surname (Elve - or as it was commonly spelled in 1881, Elvey). The 1881 [...]
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