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Hi, I'm Joe

I’m a genealogist and historical researcher who uncovers the lost and forgotten lives buried in the archives. I founded Yourfamilyline in 2023 to bring these stories back into the light through detailed research and digital storytelling, because every ancestor, no matter how “ordinary” they seemed, has a story worth telling.

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The Most CHAOTIC Family in Victorian South London - And the Boy Who Survived It

The Most CHAOTIC Family in Victorian South London - And the Boy Who Survived It

In June 1873, an eleven-year-old boy stood before the magistrates at Richmond Petty Sessions in Surrey. He'd stolen g...

Why This 5ft 4 Man Was the MOST DANGEROUS in South London

Why This 5ft 4 Man Was the MOST DANGEROUS in South London

In 1885, a five-year-old boy fell into the Grand Surrey Canal in Deptford and nearly drowned. Two strangers dived in ...

THEY CALLED HIM WHAT?! The Man Banned From Every Pub in Birmingham

THEY CALLED HIM WHAT?! The Man Banned From Every Pub in Birmingham

In 1871, a seven-year-old boy named Richard was living with his family in a court dwelling in Aston, Birmingham. His ...

She Told Them She Was Satan – The Tragic Life of Bess Harvey

She Told Them She Was Satan – The Tragic Life of Bess Harvey

In April 1860, a girl named Bess was born in a small Gloucestershire settlement above Minchinhampton. By twenty she w...

A Real Peaky Blinder?! The Man BANNED From Every Pub in Birmingham (His Dad Was a Nasty Piece of Work Too)

A Real Peaky Blinder?! The Man BANNED From Every Pub in Birmingham (His Dad Was a Nasty Piece of Work Too)

Thomas Riley was born around 1881 in Birmingham, the son of a bricklayer's labourer also named Thomas, who had accumu...

He Took His Secret to the Grave - I Found It 120 Years Later...

He Took His Secret to the Grave - I Found It 120 Years Later...

When John Tozer Baskerville died at Brisworthy Farm in 1904, his death certificate described him simply as a farmer. ...

How She Became Birmingham's Most Feared Woman

How She Became Birmingham's Most Feared Woman

In the streets of Victorian Birmingham, Charlotte Humphries was branded a criminal before she even reached adolescenc...

'Battered With A Pork Pie': The Girl Who Hit A Copper

'Battered With A Pork Pie': The Girl Who Hit A Copper

In February 1909, a story broke in the London newspapers that seemed too ridiculous to be true. A young woman named G...

The Mother Who Drank While Her Son Starved to Death

The Mother Who Drank While Her Son Starved to Death

Elizabeth Frances Noble emerged in the market town of Beverley in the mid-nineteenth century as a woman firmly embedd...

How One Man Scammed Birmingham’s Pubs for 20 Years

How One Man Scammed Birmingham’s Pubs for 20 Years

Charles Page emerged in Birmingham at the end of the nineteenth century as a man living on the thin line between resp...

How One Man Scammed Birmingham’s Pubs for 20 Years

How One Man Scammed Birmingham’s Pubs for 20 Years

Charles Page emerged in Birmingham at the end of the nineteenth century as a man living on the thin line between resp...

The Man Who Pulled 104 Bodies from the Thames

The Man Who Pulled 104 Bodies from the Thames

George Little was born in 1860 in Bromley-by-Bow, East London, into a riverside working-class family. Growing up amon...

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