discovering family history

Exploring Family Heritage in Fiction

In writing his recent series of historical novels, author David Cairns, the Baron of Finavon, discovered inspiration close to home…. The explosion of genealogical research databases and their marketing over

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Rechabite Letter – a protest

Recently, I posted a letter discovered in my mother’s mementos and written by Reverend William Bell to his offspring, in particular his daughter Isabelle Mallock. Isabelle’s husband, John Mallock, wrote

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The Rechabite Letter

While going through some of my mother’s mementos [she’s still alive, but we were clearing out a few boxes], I found a letter dated 18th February, 1842. It was addressed

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Meet M.K.Tod

The historical fiction author behind A Writer of History...

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