Who Was The Daddy?: Snippet 4: Bastardy Records

Unwed mothers being brought before a court room and treated severely. Woodcut. Wellcome images, in the public domain, undated. Modern DNA techniques can now definitively solve questions of paternity, and can even resolve cases from several generations back in the past. But traditionally, there have been many other ways in which family historians could potentially... Continue Reading →

Who Was the Daddy? Snippet 3: Belated Marriages

Marriage Certificate - Wellcome Collection, in the public domain. Modern DNA techniques can now definitively solve questions of paternity, and can even resolve cases from several generations back in the past. But traditionally, there have been many other ways in which family historians could potentially discover who the daddy was when no father’s name appeared... Continue Reading →

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