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family history

18th August 2017

Reflections on our India trip

I wrote a post at the start of our two-month trip around southern India, explaining our reasons for making the journey and setting out our plan for the weeks to come.  So, now that...

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15th June 2017

Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu (and more family connections!)

A friend who visited Chennai (formerly Madras) a couple of years ago described it to me as a very 'liveable' city.  Unfortunately, arriving there from the chaos of Bangalore, it didn't feel that...

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12th June 2017

Bangalore – a city of hijra, crazy drivers and family history

Bangalore is the largest city we visited on our journey around southern India and the fourth most populous on the sub-continent behind New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.  All I can say is that it...

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5th June 2017

Family connections in the Nilgiris

As I explained in a previous post, one of the main reasons for going to India was to discover more about Mark’s family history.

Mark’s paternal grandfather,...

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30th June 2013

My biking grandparents!

As part of my <span style="color:...
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19th February 2012

Eulogy for my Dad

John Haley (27th February, 1940 - 12th October, 2011)<table cellpadding="0"...

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