The countdown has begun to 2019 but it's worth taking a moment to celebrate and share our happy dance moments this year when we hit the jackpot with our research. My best family history moment this year was unexpectedly coming across a record showing my 4 x great grandfather, a shipwright in the Royal Navy, being incarcerated in a French prison during the Napoleonic wars. Even better, it listed his ship - HMS Defiance - thus opening a whole new line of research for me. I can

Have you been promising yourself to indulge in some much overdue genealogy / family history reading over the holidays? Me too. So, here is my list of the top ten genealogy blogs I enjoy reading when time permits. (And yes, even Genealogy Bloggers like yours truly read other genealogists' blogs. We never stop learning and sometimes it’s nice to have a bit of a busman’s holiday from writing about the subject.) Your Family Genealogist – (shameless self-promotion here) I often