Genealogists quickly learn a love of graveyards and monuments as a wealth of biographic information, a unique personal link to the past,...

Several of my published genealogy works centre around the Romani people and their five-hundred-year history in the British Isles. Though...

My late grandmother Jean Bellenger, shown above in 1945 at the age of eighteen, was a keen painter who sold and exhibited her work at...

2021 marked forty years since the death of Jamaican singer, songwriter, and musician Bob Marley. In my 2018 book Paths of Freedom I trace...

One of the earliest records I have of my Huguenot families in France is the marriage entry of my ancestors Isaie Martin and Marie...

Sandwiched between two rival Beigel shops, a legacy of 19th century Jewish settlement in East London, lies the Georgian façade of 157...

In prior blog entries I have written about my family connection to Spitalfields. Equally important in my own family history is its...

My grandfather sadly passed away on 16th April this year, aged 89, and ahead of his funeral tomorrow I wanted to write some of my own...

What do these two men have in common besides a name? Perhaps the most explosive new discovery of my book INSIDE THE BEATLES FAMILY TREE...

JOHN Lennon's little-known family connection to Wales is revealed and fully detailed in my newly published book, Inside the Beatles...

A year ago this week saw the publication of the first instalment in my Infamous Eastenders Series, 'Discovering the Kray Family Tree', an...

A review of one of my books published in the Winter 2018 Romany Routes Journal today. Thank you to Jeremy Harte at the Romany and...

Seven years after Edward Clarke’s death, yet more of my ancestors are recorded living in Spitalfields, and again at Corbett’s Court....

This month I published The Early Silk Weavers of London and Spitalfields (1520-1720), an account of the establishment of the silk trade...

I am pleased to announce the first of my updated and revised reprints of my 2013 Huguenot series of books, The Early Silk Weavers of...

I am pleased to announce Paths of Freedom - The Bob Marley Family Tree, [ISBN 978-1-9999683-4-2] my latest book, is now In Print and...

Since it's inception, in the year 2000, Commercial DNA testing, for genealogical purposes, has become increasingly common and ever more...

Welcome to the new blog section of my website, where I will post regular news and developments on my upcoming books and projects, and on...