by Lady Kathleen | Dec 30, 2018 | Genealogy News
English surnames as we know them today — family names passed down intact from father to son to grandson — weren’t widely used until after the Norman conquest of 1066. Prior to that time there just weren’t enough people to really make it...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 28, 2018 | Royalty
In the springtime of 51 BC, Ptolemy Auletes died and left his kingdom in his will to his eighteen year old daughter, Cleopatra, and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII who was twelve at the time. Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt. She had two older...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 26, 2018 | Genealogy News
Two centuries ago doctors were dealing with medical conditions such as burns, asthma, , and that are still familiar today. However, they were also contending with deaths caused by such things as auge (malaria), dropsy (edema), or spontaneous combustion...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 25, 2018 | Genealogy News
If you want to learn more about your ancestors, you need to know how to begin. Luckily, it is not rocket science, and you can learn a lot by following these three first steps, baby steps, to build your family tree. Are you having difficulty figuring out exactly where...
by Lady Kathleen | Dec 24, 2018 | Genealogy News
If you are fairly new to building your family tree, you may have begun to find that the information you thought was about your ancestor – isn't. There were several with your ancestor's name and similar dates, living in the same town and buried in the...
