Heritage Consulting Genealogy Research Services is pleased to invite you to come to England with us in June! Our newest venture, Heritage Journeys, takes interested parties to their ancestral homelands for research and visiting ancestral home sites. The ten day trip (May 31-June 10) includes hotel accommodations, most meals, ground transportation, lectures, research help, and

No, it’s not what you think. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, before alarm clocks were invented, people hired a “Knocker-up” or “Knocker-upper” to tap or shoot peas at their windows at an appointed time until the person was awakened. This occupation existed in England and Ireland until well into the 1920’s. It required