This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is “Cause of death.” It took me a while to come up with an idea for this week, then I remembered that this year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Spanish flu pandemic. My great-grandmother Emily Thomas was born in Canterbury, England in 1879 to Henry Thomas and Minnie…
This weeks prompt is “misfortune” and a family curse rears its head again. If you are hunting for records in England from across the pond, the website of the General Register Office may be of help. You can get a printed birth or death certificate mailed to you for a fee, and for a minimum of…
With my subscription to Ancestry, I have access to many official documents, like death certificates, that have so much more information than just dates. While researching Burdus Melcher for my last blog post, I decided to fill out his sister Emma’s profile in my records. Her death certificate is available on Ancestry and I found out she died…