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What has caused HistoryOwl to evolve?

Submitted by WiseOwl on Fri, 09/10/2020 - 16:25

In pre-digital times, there were only two species of owl. The first were the sort that sat in trees and said "too-wit too-woo". Well, strictly speaking (according to the Wildlife Trust), a male said twit and the female (he hoped) responded with twoo. There were many sub-species of these for which you'd need to visit the Natural History Museum to find out more.

Jumping to conclusions

Submitted by WiseOwl on Fri, 31/07/2020 - 15:27

One of the reasons researching family history is both satisfying and frustrating in equal measures is that it does not run predictably and this post is a story about how this happened to me during my own research. One of my lines is the surname Brown, not exactly an unusual surname and I was fully aware that pitfalls might await me as I aimed to shake out mine from the many others. We are in 19th Century Liverpool and I have proven via various pieces of evidence that my ancestor William Brown was born about 1794.