It was a good few years back, when I was gingerly inching my way along the very first branches of my tree – and, admittedly, pretty clueless about what I was doing – that I came across a surprising record.
Well, I say surprising; in truth, my cousin had already unearthed the bones of the tale in the pre-internet days, but I hadn’t expected anything to just pop up at Ancestry, quite like this, and quite so readily.
A simple, but startling, start
I’d typed in Catherine Riboldi but left the other boxes blank, and after scrolling past reams of Rabolds, Riebolds and the like in the Americas, England, Ireland and beyond, I
