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Secret coded baby names
Traditional Child Naming Patterns by Culture One overlooked source of clues in genealogy is literally the birth order of names in a family. I know it sounds silly, but there were stretches of time in human history where baby names weren’t just chosen at whim, but were predetermined long before the child is even conceived.…
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The Lost Soldier: Private Robert McLellan and the Battle of Ypres
In the early days of World War I, three Scottish brothers marched off to war, each serving in a different regiment of the British Army. Among them was Private Robert McLellan, a 19-year-old assistant overseer in a mill, who had enlisted in the 1st Battalion of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). His brothers, Walter…
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“Pitty Chapman” Mystery solved
I’m creating this entire post to answer the only question I’ve ever asked that Google couldn’t exactly answer. Not that they exist to exactly answer anything, I understand they’re just a search engine. I first came across the phrase while reading Thomas Bogg’s peddler application in the archived documents of the East and West Proprietors…