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Ari’s 5x great-grandmother Fanny Briant was born in 1816 in Corfe Mullen, Dorset. I don’t know who her parents were (no baptism record...

Earlier this week I was contacted by someone who found me through the JewishGen Family Finder. This is a wonderful resource that allows...

One of Ari’s 8x great-grandmothers was called Christian Gray. She was born in 1702 in Corfe Castle, Dorset, and baptised there on 17 May....

The canal at Tibberton Joseph Sheppard was Ari’s 5x great-grandfather, youngest son of Joseph Sheppard and Ann Day, and husband of Mary...

One of Ari’s 4x great-grandmothers was Hinda, later called Jane, who was born in about 1845, probably in Ekaterinoslav (now...

Ari has two 11x great-grandmothers whose names I know. One of them was called Judith, and she was born in about 1640, somewhere near...

Ari’s great-great-grandmother Rose Hurwitz was a very special person in my life. Rose was the daughter of Louis Koppel (LK) Hurwitz and...

Ari’s 7x great-grandfather William Day was born in 1735 in Huddington, Worcestershire and christened on 30 September, the son of John Day...

Isaac Katz was the father of Maurice Katz, and was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather. He was born in about 1842 in Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine (now...

John Holloway, of Upper Clatford in Hampshire, was Ari’s 7x great-grandfather. The village of Upper Clatford is described as “long and...

The mother of Missing Minna was called Jennie, Janie or Gesa. How do we know this? On 29 May 1858 she appears in a Lithuanian Revision...

Thomas Castledine was Ari’s 7x great-grandfather and I don’t know much about him yet. On 30 January 1787 he married Alice Warren at Dale...

One of Ari’s 6x great-grandmothers was Alice Holmes, who was born in Cromford in 1778, the second daughter of Samuel Holmes and Lydia...

One of Ari’s 9x great-grandfathers was Joshua Eyre, born in 1706 in Hazelwood, Derbyshire. He was baptised at the church in Duffield on...

I have previously written about William Orchard who was born in 1813. I’ve now researched his family back a few more generations.  His...

Ari’s 6x great-grandfather Nisel lived in Svencionys, Lithuania. Nisel (a variant of Nisn) is a name that was given to boys during the...

Ari’s 5x great-grandfather Andrew Mullens or Mullins was born in 1797 in West Hatch, Tisbury, Wiltshire. It is thought that there was an...

Joseph Sheppard (or Shepherd) was one of Ari’s 6x great-grandfathers, born in 1752 in Worcestershire, possibly in Hanbury, as that is...

Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire was home to one of Ari’s 5x great-grandfathers, William Cawthorn. William was married to Mary Chapman on 12 May...

Recent research has allowed me to find a few ancestors of Ari’s who lived in England in the seventeenth century, some in Dorset and some...