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Welcome to my genealogy blog where I will be posting my thoughts and interesting things which I have found during my research.

I have written about more than 120 different ancestors and am working towards trying to determine which parts of my birth DNA and adopted nurture makes me 'me'.

It would be great if you would add a comment even if it's just to say you have been here.

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Summary of my genealogy blogs

3/9/2017

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​​SPECIAL DAYS 
​St Pirans Day 
Why have Mothers Day ? 
When is a bank holiday not a bank holiday ?
Put your clocks forward one hour tonight
Why April Fool ?
Why does the tax year begin when it does ?

Christmas Day : 
Would you get married at Christmas
Breaking News : They cancelled Christmas
Why is Christmas Day so close to New Year's Day ?
The Christmas Truce on No Man's Land 
 REMEMBERING MY LIFE
Who do you think you are ?
The future for the genealogist is DNA

The revolution of the 60's
Remembering TV 1964
In my Life
Lords, my memories 1965 - 1976
​Back to the Future 2050

St Albans Lawn Tennis Club : 
the early years (1)
the WAG's take over (2)
and so to the end of grass (3)
up to my stepping down (4)
STRANGE TAXES
Playing cards
The hat tax
The wallpaper tax
A beard tax
Duty on hair powder
The fireplace tax
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES

The making of a lithographic print
On the scent
​Puppet on a string
POSTCARD RESEARCH
Every postcard tells a story
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A sad tale of scarlet fever
A visit to an antiques fair
​The British Postcard
The Pensioner and the Farm Girl
The Poem and the Spinster
The Town Crier and the Lunatic​
QUIRKY TALES 
A genealogist ahead of her time
Doing her wifely duties
​Unusual occupations
​The old lady and her tortoise
​Putting our ancestors lives into context
How can you appear on the same census twice ?
​The Census (a poem)

CHURCHES & GRAVEYARDS
Monuments & gravestones
I wish to admit I am a coimetrophiliac
St Peter's church & graveyard, St Albans
St Leonard's Church & graveyard, Sandridge
St Helen's Church & graveyard, Wheathamstead
Hatfield Road graveyard, St Albans
St Peter's Church, London Colney
​An engineer who changed the world
The tombstone (a poem)
ST ALBANS 
Alban, the first English martyr
​The second battle of St Albans
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    My name is Simon Bird although I was christened, prior to my adoption, as William Musgrove aka Billy.  I am interested in genealogy generally and finding stories that would otherwise never be told.

    I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoyed writing about them.

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