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RHS Digital Dig project: winner of ARA Archive Volunteering Award 2023

Royal Horticultural Society project wins volunteering award for work to uncover hidden horticultural history

Traveller culture celebrated at Auchindrain

The history and culture of the Travelling community was celebrated recently with a weekend of events held at Auchindrain, Scotland’s last remaining township

Bletchley Park opens state-of-the-art learning centre in refurbished wartime building

This summer, a newly-restored wartime building at Bletchley Park will open as a new museum learning centre, dedicated to formal and informal learning programmes

Fifth annual success for FamilySearch in workplace awards

FamilySearch has again been recognised for its ‘exceptional workplace culture’ by receiving the 2023 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for a fifth consecutive year

Cheshire care home welcomes local museum to take residents on heartwarming journey back in time

Residents at a Cheshire care home have been treated to a trip down memory lane, and welcomed members of the local museum for an exploration of the town’s rich history

Millions of Hampshire parish records added to Ancestry

• The Parish Records consist of baptisms, burials

130,000+ new Bedfordshire parish records to explore

Bedfordshire baptism records: 1466-2011 

Celebrating a history of creativity

Heritage Open Days, the country’s largest festival of history and culture returns with a packed programme of free events

Share your view of a historic place in the Missing Pieces project

Members of the public are invited to share their pictures and stories of the unique, significant and memorable places on the National Heritage List for England.

SCAN ENTIRE PHOTO ALBUM PAGES IN ONE GO

MyHeritage has announced the launch of Reimagine, a new mobile app for family photos

Lark Rise to Candleford: Village life in the late-1800s

Jayne Shrimpton scours the pages of Lark Rise to Candleford and the social history insights afforded to the last days of late Victorian rural life

Grandma’s message

Like all family historians Sandra Coombes eagerly awaited the release of the 1921 census. From this single document she came to understand the grandmother she never knew that little bit better.

IN SEARCH OF OVERSEAS EMPLOYMENT

Chris Paton explores some of the reasons our ancestors left Britain and Ireland to live and work across the globe and provides resources to help you trace your family’s journey

TWISTS, TURNS &REVELATIONS

Gill Shaw turns her attention to the Riboldi sisters – and gets some surprising news about their brothers

INVESTIGATING burial records

This month Family Tree Academy Tutor, David Annal, explores records of death and demonstrates the clues they may reveal

Dear Paul

This month, Paul Chiddicks takes a look at another civil registration anomaly, a rather unusual diary, plus one of the most unusual museum artefacts that you might ever encounter…

DNA FIRST AID ‘Where are my matches?’

Are you finding a lack of DNA matches to an ancestral line? Dr Sophie Kay is here to help. In her methodical article, she will show you how to: study your DNA match list; think carefully about what you are seeing, or rather not seeing, and then decide on your most productive next steps for working on your DNA

SPOTLIGHT ON… Pro-Am Genies

The founders of the Pro-Am Genies network introduce their group of amateur, aspiring and professional genealogists, who are united by one thing: they’ve all taken the Pharos Tutors course ‘Professional Genealogist: become one, become a better one’ with Karen Cummings

YOURDNA WORKSHOP

Making DNA work FOR YOU

TASK OF THE MONTH

HOW TO WORK OUT WHICH TEST SOMEONE MESSAGING YOU MATCHES

FAMILY HISTORY, OUR HEALTH & WELL-BEING

Over the coming months professional genealogist Emma Jolly will be examining the many facets of family history and investigating the ways in which, and to what extent, family history may be utilised for the benefit of health and well-being.

THE MCCAIG BROTHERS

As a child Ian Ross was always fascinated by a box his mother kept in the loft, which contained pictures and postcards sent by his great-grandfather, Alexander McCaig, to the family towards the end of WW1.

GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS FOR ALL OCCASIONS!

Family Tree reader Peter Day shares tactics that he has found useful for reflecting on his family history and avoiding errors

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

How are they not on the 1939 Register?

PHOTO CORNER

Costume historian & photodating expert Jayne Shrimpton shares advice to help you date your unidentified pictures and so put names to the faces of the past.This month we invited military expert Graham Caldwell to share his knowledge too.

Your letters

A super selection of useful ideas shared by fellow readers of Family Tree

SHARING THE JOY

Diane Lindsay reflects on the joy of sharing family history knowledge – even when it has been expensively acquired