We do love the stories you tell us about the discoveries you’ve been making in the Archive. Pollie Scott, a family history researcher, has been finding dozens of fascinating (and very strange!) stories in the Archive about her ancestors. The most shocking discovery made by Pollie concerns the poisoning of a sister of one of her ancestors. Until visiting the Archive, Pollie had no idea of anything untoward regarding this death, so it came as a complete shock when she …

We love it when you get in touch to tell us about your discoveries in the Archive. Jessica Gilbank has recently started using the Archive to learn more about her ancestors. Although Jessica had already gathered some info about her ancestors using BMD records, she wanted to see if it might be possible to ‘flesh out the bare bones’ of their histories – hence her visit to the BNA site. In short, Jessica learned all manner of things about her …

We love it when you go all ‘ancient mariner’ and tell us about your amazing discoveries in the BNA. Janice Wood of the Ryedale Family History Group recently sent us a tweet to share a ‘Eureka!’ moment that had while searching the Archive for (previously) lost ancestors. Janice discovered that – well, we don’t want to give away the story. But if you liked that old ‘Yellow Pages’ advert about the old gentleman looking for an out-of-print book, then you’ll …