itv – Travelling Through Time to Trace Your Ancestors

By Paul McNeil August 18, 2013

Time Detectives uncover Weatherman Simon Parkin’s Grandfather; The Underage War Hero

Simon Parkin Having had some success with Fred Dinenage’s Family Tree, I was asked to see what I could find out for Simon Parkin, the Meridian Weatherman. There didn’t seem … Continue reading Time Detectives uncover Weatherman Simon Parkin’s Grandfather; The Underage War Hero

By Paul McNeil July 20, 2013March 6, 2015

Vanessa Cuddeford from ITV’s “The West Country Tonight” gets the Time Detectives treatment

…..the Cuddeford name, like many in England, therefore, in a very real way, owes its origins to a Mongol Khan’s attack on a Genoese trading outpost in the South of Russia.