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Investigating Scotland’s Early Blood Donors

A HISTORY OF SCOTLAND’S EARLY BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE

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Costume historian & photo-dating expert Jayne Shrimpton shares advice to help you date your unidentified pictures and so put names to the faces of the past.

A masterclass in medieval records

March issue of Tree Family Tree

Where should I be looking for my mariner?

QMy 3x great-grandfather, Alexander Stewart, is variously described

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THE ‘HUMBLE FOLK’ OF YEARS GONE BY

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March issue of Family Tree is on sale from 9 February

Eagerly awaited Society of Genealogists new premises now open to the public

ALL ABOUT FAMILY HISTORY

Destruction of post-1858 Wills of England and Wales proposed

On 15 December the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) issued a consultation document on the storage and retention of original will documents.

Ancestor Photos shed a spotlight on individual lives

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UNLOCK THE P OWER OF STORIES

RootsTech, the world’s largest genealogy conference has launched a social media challenge to share stories of the past, present, and future in the hope of inspiring others to discover their own family stories

Library move for Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (JGSGB) has announced the relocation of its extensive library from The Jewish Museum London to the Westminster Synagogue

QUEST FOR A PERMANENT HOME FOR FOLKLORE COLLECTION

A campaign to give a permanent home to a folklore collection gathered over a lifetime has received support via a crowdfunding campaign

1 .6 million military records added to TheGenealogist

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Ambitious project to create a family tree for a whole town

A project in a Northumbrian town has seen the creation of one family tree that includes every resident who has ever lived there

YOUR FAMILY’S STORY… IN YOUR OWN BOOK

The Storied platform has announced the latest addition to its portfolio: StoriedBook™

RootsMagic 9 ‘designed to access Ancestry and FamilySearch through their new more secure logins’

As of 11 December 2023 access to Ancestry via third party software has changed

Trace your criminal ancestors: Scottish prison register entries reach 500,000 mark

Scottish Indexes have announced the release of 180,000 new records, a major milestone in their prison register indexing project, as the collection reaches half a million records from 38 Scottish prisons

DEAR PAUL

This month, Paul Chiddicks shares a selection of quirky genealogy gems and introduces his new ‘transcription corner’ – do you have any humorous or cringe-worthy transcriptions to share?

Family history: Health and wellbeing survey

FAMILY HISTORY FOR HEALTH

RESEARCHING EAST INDIAMEN

Richard Morgan takes a look at the history of these trading ships, from their early beginnings in the 17th century, through to the ending of the East India Company monopoly. If your ancestor served on board one of these vessels, you might be surprised how much information you can uncover…

A TREASURE CHEST OF CHANNEL CROSSINGS

Fresh from finding not only her 2x great-aunt Catherine Mary on the 1871 Brighton Census, but also the boy she eventually marries, Gill Shaw casts the net a bit wider

A forensic look at family heirlooms

Janet Few encourages us to take a look at our heirlooms and consider preserving the stories attached to them. In this way, it is much more likely these items will be treasured by the generations that come after us

YOUR GENEALOGY PLANNING GUIDE 2024

What’s on your agenda for your family history in the coming year? Use the Family Tree Genealogy Planning Guide to help you plan your family history time, get more organised, grow your research skills and discover new things!

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PRIZE PAPERS EXPLORED

Discover the records that history almost forgot – the Prize Papers. The report below follows an interview with Prize Papers Project lead and Head of the Legal Records Team at The National Archives, Kew, Amanda Bevan

INFORMATION FROM electoral registers

On the surface, electoral registers might appear to

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