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Direct Descent

Direct Descent

Direct Descent is a media project focused entirely on family history. Expect investigations, whodunits, sociological insights and top tips for your own research.

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Why are there so few Welsh surnames?

Pity the family historian with Welsh ancestry. Unpicking Jones from Jones and Rees from Rees is a wretched task. Take my great-great-grandfather William Thomas. His census records say he was born in Swansea sometime between 1863 and 1866. Y...

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How the Mormons gave us genealogy

Joseph Smith was just an upstate New York farm boy when, in September 1823, he claimed to have been visited by the angel Moroni. The angel told him the location of a book made of golden plates that had been hidden in a Native American buria...

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Amusing English surnames and their origins

The English only started to use surnames en masse in the 12 and 13th centuries and most were given to them as occupational names, habituational names (where they lived or had came from) or from personal characteristics. Many of these became...

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Grandad in the workhouse

# Grandad in the workhouse

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