Another cousin makes contact

I’ve just been contacted by another cousin, Philippa Davis, formerly MacGregor. She’s my third cousin once removed on the Vause-Raw-Hart-Davis side of the family.
She wasn’t entirely unknown to me before, but she was just a name at the end of one branch of the family tree, and it’s exciting to exchange e-mails and especially to [...]

FreeCen and researching Cornwall families

Thanks to the hard work of volunteer transcribers, the FreeCEN and FreeBMD web resources are a boon to people researching British genealogy.
Having another look at my Greenaway family from Cornwall, I decided to follow up some of the descendants of brothers and sisters of my ancestors, and FreeCEN made it easy.
FreeCEN means free census lookups [...]

Greenaway and Michell additions

I was looking in search engines for the Greenaway family and came across a new cousin, I think.
My 3 great grandparents were Richard Greenaway and Mary Michell, who lived on Bodmin Moor (mostly in the adjacent villages of Blisland and St Breward). So when I came across a web site that had both names, I [...]

Death of Canadian author Mollie Gillen

Mollie Gillen, who died recently at the age of 100, was not a relative, as far as we know, but she made an enormous contribution to our family history research into the Green family.
As her obituary in the Toronto Globe & Mail puts it
Born and educated in Australia, married to a Canadian sergeant in wartime [...]