Kirsten English Genealogy

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Organised by a fellow genealogist. This looks amazing x

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World's oldest family tree created using DNA

World's oldest family tree created using DNA Scientists have created the world's oldest family tree from bones interred at a 5,700-year-old tomb.

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My family have always claimed we're related to him and have a chart to prove it. However, as a Professional Genealogist I have shown we're actually descended from someone called Walter Rawlings with much humbler origins. The family weren't very happy. Myth is more exciting than reality

in 1618 English adventurer, writer and courtier Walter Raleigh was beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England.

Very interesting. TV genealogy for entertainment rather than truth.

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I'm Mad as Hell! - Gorry Research I’m led to believe that it was Mark Twain who said ‘never let the truth get in the way of a good story’, but who knows? Who cares? Truth is a commodity much less valuable than perception. Get a celebrity into a graveyard, show him any old gravestone and tell him it’s his ancestor’s. What [...

Found a new occupation amongst the records today - Copse Dealer. This was someone who found buyers for small pieces of woodland, or who sold the wood on it. One advertisement in 1873 was calling for all 'Copse dealers and manufacturers of walking sticks'.