The Dark Side of Marketing Our Personal Data

This follows on from my post about ads which seem to be suggesting I am old, fat and spotty. It answers many of my questions.It is much as I suspected. I think genealogists naturally track people too. We get clues and use those leads to guide us to uncover further details of an individual’s life. …

What Makes a Life?

I love newspaper archives. I have waded enthusiastically in when one of my youngsters had had a project on the Industrial Revolution. When I had studied this turmultuous period at school, I had found it dull, dry and uninteresting. Wading into The British Newspaper Archives had taught me just how wrong I was. Perhaps having …

The Tallow Chandler

Having spent some time building up a structure, it now seems time to add some texture using some of my personal research experience. I have deliberately picked somebody I have not studied for sometime, so I too will be learning as I go along. My intention is to introduce my research into a character called …