About: Clare O'Grady
Recent Posts by Clare O'Grady
New Genealogist of the Week – Kerry Baldwin
What started your interest in genealogy? I’ve always been interested in history since childhood and loved hearing stories of family from my grandmother. She used to recite a rhyme to me of her ancestors going back several generations and I wish I had paid more attention, as it would have been helpful when it came […]
New Genealogist of the Week – Elizabeth Walne
What started your interest in genealogy? I think for many of us the interest started as children and I am no exception. I was only eight or nine when I went with my family to find the tombs of some of my paternal ancestors in a small village in Norfolk. On one of the tombstones […]
New Genealogist of the Week – Jessica Feinstein
What started your interest in genealogy? When I was a very young child, my parents used to send me (and my sister and brother) on a plane to Johannesburg to stay with my father’s parents in our Christmas holidays. Of course it was summer there so we had a wonderful time swimming, getting sunburnt and […]
New Genealogist of the Week – Michael Tobias
What started your interest in genealogy? When my grandmother passed away in 1994 aged 94 my brothers and I realised that we actually knew very little about our family history and origins – and of course it was now too late to ask questions! However we DID start to research and this coincided with the […]