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What surnames are you interested in researching?: Corbett, Firth, MacLean, Martin, McDougall, Rowe, Scarfe, Smith, Sutton, Swinden, Winnard, Woolliscroft

What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland

What is your level of genealogy knowledge?: Intermediate Family History Researcher

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Archaeology and Family History

Posted on August 15, 2009 at 7:17am 6 Comments 0 Likes

When I introduce myself as an archaeologist I generally find that people make assumptions about what that actually means. For a start I get asked about what I’ve been digging up lately and have to explain that not all archaeologists dig. I have (or should I say had?) a desk job. On top of that there is the problem of what period do archaeologists actually cover? We don’t cover dinosaurs, not in the slightest. Archaeology is all about the study of man and as yet no one has found any evidence to… Continue