“Another language” is the theme this week for the #52ancestors challenge. If you’ve been reading my blog for a bit, you’ll know that most of my ancestors were from Orkney so this could be a difficult topic. Or not. Gaelic No no, people do not speak Gaelic in Orkney and never have done to the | more…
Mothers’ Day is the theme for the #52ancestors challenge this week. As that is a tie-in to the American festival, I’m going to swap and take the British Mothering Sunday as my prompt. Ann Thomson (1816-1904) Ann is my x2 great grandmother in my father’s direct line, the wife of Hugh Rosie or Ross (1816-1892). | more…
In summer 2016 the American tv series Finding your roots approached me to do some research. They could not tell me the name of the famous person whose ancestry I would work on. Not a problem, research is research. All is now revealed I’ve just found out that Christopher Walken was the celebrity whose ancestor | more…
