The British Library has launched a new blog containing stories of peoples lives gleaned from the vast collections that make up the library. It is not only the rich and famous that you will find here, but those folk who have had fascinating and/or unusual lives, but which have largely been forgotten. You will find murderers and missionaries, Napoleon and Slaves and much, much more.

Take a look, who knows what you will find and remember these stories are about real people so they have to be on someone’s family tree !

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/about-this-blog.html