by Susan Morris | Jun 16, 2016 | Genealogy, surnames, Uncategorized
In Britain, the surname lies at the heart of genealogy; most of us carry round with us a medieval name-tag which might have arisen from where an ancestor lived, what they looked like or their occupation. In 1986 Debrett Ancestry Research acquired Frank Leeson’s... by Susan Morris | Jun 30, 2013 | Genealogy
The vast majority of our clients want us to concentrate on their paternal ancestry, which is understandable as this is the traditional way in which we view our family history in Britain. Looking from the child to its father, and then to its father’s father, is deeply...