Which county are you from?
Entering Hampshire, one of the first Wessex shires. The stone beside the sign is an old West Sussex boundary marker. (© Shazz cc-by-sa/2.0) Which county did your ancestors come from? Of all your genealogical discoveries and challenges, you probably don’t give this one a second thought. Does it matter? And how did a county become a county? Our counties weren’t planned by committee from above but created piecemeal, mostly 1,000 years ago in Anglo-Saxon England, at a time when E
How do I go beyond 1837?
Where to look for your ancestors before civil registration began: parish registers, census substitutes, wills, courts, newspapers.
Uncovering Fisherton Anger
The village that was here before Salisbury, and how to find it today.
