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A Day in the Life of an Expert
Social and family historian Keith Gregson takes a wry yet informative look at the part he has played in recent Family History Shows... Read More
Issue 86 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Educate yourself on the records!
Keith Gregson has recently discovered the usefulness of TheGenealogist’s Education search engine and shares some of his discoveries with readers... Read More
Issue 83 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Finding my earliest home
Keith Gregson reports on a personal discovery made thanks to TheGenealogist’s land-related records... Read More
Issue 76 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
The search for Mr Nesbitt
Keith Gregson brings his extensive First World War research to a close with the help of online resources... Read More
Issue 68 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
The search for Mr Vinneycombe
Keith Gregson shows how he has used TheGenealogist and allied sites to solve one particularly challenging WW1 research problem... Read More
Issue 67 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Some Yorkshire Sporting Heroes
Yorkshire folk are ‘right proud’ of their sporting heritage and it is likely that our Yorkshire ancestors will have taken part in some form of sporting activity and that this activity may have been recorded... Read More
Issue 62 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
New records from the ‘Far North’
Keith Gregson explores the Northumberland parish records recently added to TheGenealogist website... Read More
Issue 53 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Is it worth 'giving them a bell'?
Keith Gregson examines how late Victorian/early Edwardian telephone directories can help the family historian... Read More
A ‘Greatorex’ by any other name…
Keith Gregson puts TheGenealogist’s powerful search engine to the test... Read More
Issue 34 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
A man of his word
Among the WW1 stories unearthed by writer and historian Keith Gregson is the tale of the only British soldier to be given leave from internment... Read More
Issue 5 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
A May to remember
Keith Gregson marks the centenary of Britian's worst railway disaster, which has often been overlooked because it occurred in the midst of World War One.... Read More
Issue 25 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
All Good Sports
Keith Gregson explores how to find online information about sporting ancestors who 'played for fun' or as a pastime in Victorian and Edwardian times.... Read More
Issue 22 - Discover Your Ancestors Magazine - Keith Gregson
Tommies in Training
Writer and historian Keith Gregson explores a rarely featured aspect of World War One and the online research material that can be used to find out more about the people involved.... Read More
