Another eleven stories have been added to our website today. You can access them and the earlier stories in this category here. The women concerned are: Martha Barron, Sarah Ellen Beck, Mary Elizabeth...

Grace Beattie, creator, host and producer of Wicked Women: The Podcast, discusses how we perceive and depict famous women in real time and in retrospect.Read the transcript: https://www.infinite-women...

2026 marks fifty years since the foundation of Devon Family History Society. As part of the celebrations, we will be holding a very special anniversary conference from 9-11 October 2026. This will be ...

It is time to unveil our next Forgotten Women Friday. For details of how these collaborative research days work see here. On 23 January, we will be researching women who worked for the Post Office and...

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This course introduces migration theories and provides strategies to help track down the origins of ancestors who moved within the British Isles.

This month, I have added another story from the 'Other Side'; this time about the Few family, who originated in eighteenth century Wiltshire, before moving to Reading and later, Croydon. Other surname...

Tracing your Family History Course Stage 1: November 2025 Interested in starting your family history journey? Already started but wondering if you are getting the most from the available records? Do y...

The stories created from our recent Forgotten Women Friday are arriving in our inbox. Today, we have eleven more for you to read. They are Jane Bingham, Catherine Brady, Annie Donaldson, Sarah Doyle, ...

We've just returned from a few days in Shrewsbury. We were staying on a very posh-for-us caravan site because the same complex also had 'barns' where caravan-less members of the family could stay. I was a fail at this kind of location from the start. We checked in and were given a card to access the site barrier, no problem, we were used to these.

Privates Arthur Cook, Robert Cullum, John Fraser and William London were found during building work.

After a very successful Forgotten Women Friday yesterday, when many of us learned much about Irish research, we present the first stories. Already, some trends are emerging. Many of the women died you...

It has been a while since I did a round up of my ridiculous busyness so here is what my life has looked like since visiting four counties in four weekends in September. Take a deep breath and dive …

It has been a while since I did a round up of my ridiculous busyness so here is what my life has looked like since visiting four counties in four weekends in September. Take a deep breath and dive on in. First, a lovely chat with my Few Good Women family, with one of us practicing an (excellent) talk. Next, because exercise seems to have slipped from the agenda, a bird-watching stroll on the nearby country park, organised by the rangers.